Thieves break into a van and.....

[K PhaNTOM]

Holy crap, It's cap'n Price.

[mapes]

Yep the Iranian Embassy was the first CT action video'd by the media.

The thing that really impresses me about the SAS is when there was some prison revolt that had taken over a prison. The SAS landed on the roof via helicopter and subdued the prisoners with quarterstaves because they felt uneasy using guns on British citizens even prisoners.

[mapes]

Oh yeah this reminds me of my Halloween costume a couple years back

[juneau]

Yep the Iranian Embassy was the first CT action video'd by the media.

The thing that really impresses me about the SAS is when there was some prison revolt that had taken over a prison. The SAS landed on the roof via helicopter and subdued the prisoners with quarterstaves because they felt uneasy using guns on British citizens even prisoners.

Iirc that was a prison in Scotland. The name escapes me now.

edit: This would be the one.

SAS - Operations - Peterhead Prison

A great rundown of the events. The prisoners didn't stand a chance.

edit: That is actually a very good website for details of the missions.

a few excerpts from the Embassy mission..

Inside the Telex room on the 2nd floor, the terrorists began firing indiscriminately at their captives, killing one and wounding another. Before the SAS burst into the room the terrorists threw their weapons down and hid themselves amongst their hostages. In the most controversial incident of the siege, the SAS put the 2 terrorists against the wall and shot them.

Once outside, the hostages were all handcuffed and made to lay down. A quick head count revealed that there were too many hostages. The BBC sound man, Sim Harris identified another terrorist who was masquerading as a hostage. It's said that one SAS trooper separated the terrorist and led him back into the embassy, presumably to finish him off. Colleagues with cooler heads prevented him from doing so and the terrorist was properly arrested.

Holy crap! lol.