London embassy raid
staged after killings

Police say more bodies may be in rubble

- LONDON (UPD - Police-said
| Tuesday they believe ex-
plosives used by army
commandos in storming the
Iranian Embassy set off
other devices, possibly
booby-traps, planted by
terrorists who had killed two
of their 21 hostages,
Police said they believe
more than five Arab-Iranian
gunmen were involved in the
six-day siege, but stressed
the proof lies in the rubble of

the gutted building.
Peter Duffy, head of
Scotland Yard’s_ anti-

terrorist branch said he
“personally believed... in
excess of five gunmen” were
involved im the embassy
# attack, and other police
| officials said five gunmen
were slain and one was in
custody.

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| So it was Monday when
4 gunmen holding hostages at
the Iranian embassy for six
days finally carried out their
threat to start killing their
captives. After one body was
pushed out the front door,
Scotland Yard decided the
psychological war to end the
siege peacefully was over
and it was the SAS men who

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“There are at least two
bodies still in the embassy,”
Duffy said, “and I personally
believe we may find more.”

The black-hooded British
army commandos staged
their blitzkrieg raid Monday
night after the Arab-Iranian
gunmen methodically
executed two of their
hostages, and threatened to
kill more.

Three hostages were shot
and wounded during the
hfting of the siege. The other
16 — including four women
— were released unharmed
except for minor cuts.

Deputy Assistant Commis-
sioner John Dellow said that
soon into the six-day siege,
the gunmen dropped
demands for the release of
91 ethnic Arabs and wanted

‘only “free exit from the

[BRITAIN’S SPECIAL AIR SERVICES

Men who dare

blasted thejr way into the
elegant building to rescue
the hostages.

Their swift grenade and
machine-gun attack earned
personal congratulations
from Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher, and the
thanks of a nation relieved
the siege did not end in more
carnage.

The SAS badge, a winged
dagger, symbolizes its swift,
silent strikes. Its men are not
trained for specific
situations, but mstead are
shaped into a fast-moving,
ruthless, resourceful strike
force that can adapt to any
crisis.

They are trained in a
range of skills as frogmen,

mountaineers, medics,
skiers, linguists,
parachutists.

Their average age is 26,
but many already have
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Part of the problem in
identifying the dead, he
explained, was that many of
the hostages did not know
one another. Besides em-
bassy staff, there were
journalists, tourists, a carpet
dealer and a bank official
among the captives.

Dellow declined to discuss
details of the commando
attack that ended the siege,
but said:

“I would have thought that
most of the loud noises and
explosions were part of the
military attack. With regard
to the fire, I'm not so sure
that was the case... It is
likely, I think, that the
amount of material left
about by the terrorists was
likely to be something that
could start a fire.”

will often be split into
smaller groups left to their
own resources.

The SAS was formed in
North Africa m 1942 by Col.
David Stirling, who was
described by wartime leader,
Field Marshall Bernard
Montgomery as “mad, quite,
quite mad.” .

Secret SAS operations
have included fighting
communist infiltration
around the oilfields of the
Persian Gulf, in the jungles
of Borneo and Malaysia and
more recently in Oman.

But modern terrorist
activities have produced
more delicate situations for
the SAS to tackle.

In 1972, they parachuted
onto the liner QE2 in mid-
Adantic after a ransom
threat to blow up the ship.

Four years later they were
called in to carry out un-
dercover operations in
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