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AN SAS hero who took part in the Iranian embassy siege and daring raids during the Falklands War has died. Warrant Officer John Thompson, 82, died on Saturday evening after a period of ill health.
Inside the devastatingly audacious SAS raid on the Iranian Embassy launched by Maggie Thatcher - from a lay-by near High Wycombe By BEN MACINTYRE FOR THE DAILY MAIL Published: 19:46 EDT, 11 ...
On April 30, 1980, Iranian terrorists stormed Iran's Embassy in London and took two dozen hostages. After six tense days, the British SAS freed hostages with a daring raid captured on live ...
The siege of the Iranian embassy in London ended after a dramatic raid by the SAS (Image: Rex Features) ...
FRIENDS of an SAS Iran Embassy siege hero have launched a public appeal to help pay for his crippling care home costs. Sekonaia “Tak” Takavesi’s military pension and contributions from ...
A FUND to help an ailing SAS hero pay his care home fees has shot past £55,000 — thanks to Sun readers. Pals of Sekonaia “Tak” Takavesi, 81, launched the appeal as his military pension and ...
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When Iranian Terrorists Challenged the British SAS - MSNIn the spring of 1980, six armed individuals marched into the Iranian Embassy in South Kensington - London, England, where they took 26 people hostage, including visitors, staff and even a police ...
On the sixth day of the stand-off, the government ordered the SAS to raid the embassy after the gunmen shot dead Iranian press attaché Abbas Lavasani and dumped his body outside the building.
Inside the blacked-out building, now in flames and awash with CS gas, the remaining five terrorists were being hunted down as the SAS operation reached its dramatic conclusion.
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Ben Macintyre’s ‘The Siege’ vividly recounts a hostage crisisThe six Iranian Arab gunmen who seized the embassy demanded self-determination for the “non-Persian nationalities” of their home province of Khuzestan and the release of 91 political prisoners ...
ITN correspondent Paul Davies reports on the 1980 siege on the Iranian embassy. An SAS soldier involved in the daring attack to free hostages from the Iranian Embassy has died at the age of 82 ...
Ben Macintyre’s ‘The Siege’ vividly recounts a hostage crisis The best-selling author’s new book is about the standoff and eventual rescue operation in 1980 at the Iranian Embassy in London.
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