The SAS
Are UK special forces the best in the world?
Why do you describe joining the SAS as your greatest achievement?
Were you ever asked to assassinate Saddam Hussain?
No, no I was not asked to assassinate Saddam Hussain. There was no, if you like, plot to go out, so there wasn't a job. When these jobs come, up the mission statement is very clear and it will say, "The mission is to assassinate Saddam Hussein". It is just as simple as that. There was no job like that. A lot of that was just all done up in the media, that all of a sudden you are going to get regiment guards running around Baghdad before the war and they are going to kill him. It doesn't work like that because the most important weapon is not the guy with the rifle, it is the information you equip the guy with the riffle. So all the efforts were about finding the information, which there never was enough, because otherwise he would have been killed. Again, all of this stuff sort of gets taken out of proportion.
Do you think special forces should be used to assassinate our enemies?
