There is every reason to believe that if the SAS had destroyed an Iraqi APC it would still have been there 11 years later. Nobody would have collected a totalled and burnt out vehicle from deep in the desert. He found none of the blown out vehicles that McNabb claimed they destroyed. But what McNabb claimed they did was just impossible in terms of loads they carried over great distances in terrible weather. Yes, they were SAS and far more gallant than most. McNabb talked up the hardhihood of his men. To cover up the comprehensive failure some fantastical tales of outstanding triumphs were invented. ”The REAL Bravo Two Zero” exposes this to be a lie. The SAS is not primarily there to kill people but sometimes it will kill people when that is unavoidable.ĭespite McNabb saying the objective is not to kill people according to him they killed hundreds of Iraqis. In some situations a spy satellite or listening device will not cut it. It is to gather intelligence in a way that only a human can do within binocular range. If they wanted to kill enemy soldiers they would call in a bombing raid. As McNabb himself said at Cambridge the SAS is not about killing the enemy. The SAS were not tasked with destroying the scud missile launchers unless the RAF could not do it. This was so the air force could destroy scud launchers and their communication systems.
The objective was to locate scud launchers. There may be some blame on his superiors but he messed but a great deal. He exposed what an utter balls up it was right from the off. This was 11 years after the Bravo Two Zero mission. Another SAS man wrote a book about it in 2002. I lately read a book about Bravo Two Zero. He was short, personable and as hard as nails. I even met Andy McNabb when he came to my school to give a talk. However, in my naivete, I did not disbelieve it. In one of those firefights not one Britisher was wounded and the SAS charged an Iraqi armoured personal character. What I find astonishing was that they could fight dozens of Iraqis in daylight on open ground. He could not exactly do that since it was announced by the government that some of the SAS were killed or taken prisoner. It was not so far fetched as to pretend that no one on the British side was captured or killed. A handful of plucky Britishers deep behind enemy lines wreaking mayhem among the enemy.
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