http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3756192.stm



A senior charity worker with dual British-Iraqi nationality has been kidnapped in Baghdad on Tuesday.
Margaret Hassan, who is married to an Iraqi and has lived in the country for 30 years, is head of Care International's Iraq operations.

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I cannot wait to hear what he says in his defence, if he says anything at all. What did he hope to achieve and what motivated him to do this...

I wonder if he was harbouring a grudge against the Army for sending him to Iraq.

Join the TA... One weekend a month - Like F*ck!!

Civil servants can ...

I had the misfortune to watch a video of the beheading of Nick Berg. It was very grisly and disturbing. Something I will not forget for a long time. The poor chap was very much alive while being beheaded.

Cruelty seems to be the name of their game. These people have demonstrated they do not know ...

However, I requested the application forms 2 months ago and still haven't got them

Call the AFCO up and request them again. Keep annoying them until you get those forms.

Be very paitient with the application process as it can take a long time and is very frustrating if there are any unforseen ...

Pasha,

Thanks for the reply.

This 'Pseudologica-Fantastica' condition is very interesting to me. I used to share a house with a nurse who I exhibited some of the signs that she may have this condition.

She used to pretend to be talking to someone on the telephone and was going through a major ...

More or less, yeah but not ex-SAS. He implied that said he was serving. I can't remember what he said verbatim but it went something like this.

Don: Your reporters should be wearing body armour. They may be in a green zone but as the Americans are finding out it is still not safe.

Me: Ok. Well ...

Welcome to the forum lad. Hope you enjoy your stay.

That is what I would assume.

That is what made me think that he may be a Walter. That and the fact that he said he was SAS when there was no need to specify this. It would have been acceptable for this gentleman to say he was Military or Army.

To say he was SAS and for him to tell me a load of ...

Excellent! This should me viewed by everyone joining the forum.

Did anyone see the programme about the French Foreign Legion on 'Adventure 1' last night?

I work in a broadcasting company and I have contact with the public as part of my job. "Don" called me about the security of reporters in Iraq.

Relaxed maybe. But would you address to your superiors with "Yes Jim" or "Yes Dave" rather than "Yes Sir"....?

Sticky,

The point of my posts were to highlight Mr Mitty's let's say, colourful background. Apparently he was in the SAS then he was in Rwanda in 1994 after he graduated from University and now he works for Microsoft in Belfast...

Is it just me or does someone else smell pork?

I just got of the phone to a guy who called himself Don. He claimed to be a member of the SAS.

He told me that in the SAS they never refer to eachother by their rank or ever as 'Sir'. He says that they just call eachother by their first names, from the top brass down.

Is this true or have I just ...

You are missing nowt Harry lad, In fact you were part of the orginal conversation with Herr Mitty. I found this when trawling through old posts in the SF section.

http://www.militaryforums.co.uk/cforums/viewtopic.php?t=9232&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Plenty of boat people I have served ...

Plenty of boat people I have served with and all were good, as good as us.

This is the old rivalry rearing its head and you are right Harry its Horlicks, when the shit kicks off all of these guys are superbly trained, if they ran off then they had good reason - who was the sas guy? So what a ...