Saturday
(4)There has been some speculation about why the Australian military contribution to the war in Iraq has not received anything like the coverage that the American (obviously) and British forces have.
Well the reasons are twofold: firstly, the size of the force is a great deal smaller as it is made up of the elite Australian Special Air Service (which is operating in conjunction with their British SAS and American Delta Force & SEAL counterparts)... and secondly the fact they are special forces means operational security is paramount. The Aussies are famous in Special Forces circles for their ability to survive without resupply for long periods of time, something very useful when operating behind enemy lines. Just how they do this is a closely guarded secret.
However there is another more... puzzling... aspect to the lack of news, considering the Australians are the only group to invite the Al-Jazeera TV channel to embed journalists with them. A recently broadcast signal from a Australian SAS unit 'somewhere in Iraq' made mention that they had run out of embedded journalists and could they send a couple more out, preferably less stringy ones this time. It is unclear what the significance of that last remark was.
I'm Captian Alfred Packer and this is Sgt. Donner.
Posted by James A. Wolf at March 29, 2003 01:04 AM
SAS units are reknown for 'making do' with whatever they can scrounge from the environment in which they find themselves! Guess they've done it again, eh wot?
Posted by MommaBear at March 29, 2003 01:56 AM
roflmao. A1 makes journalist burgers taste like steak burgers.
Posted by Byron at March 29, 2003 03:36 AM
They want tender, meaty Al Jazeera types? Might be tough...I think all the meaty ones are in the House of Saud right now.
Posted by Jeffersonian at March 29, 2003 04:33 AM
Maybe the next batch of journalists will be from Agencie France Presse. They taste just like chicken!
Posted by bear, the (one each) at March 29, 2003 11:36 AM
....I hear they're a little bit oily?
Ok, wrong. So wrong. I apologise
Posted by TR at March 29, 2003 12:06 PM
Must be handed-on Aborigine survival skills.
Knowing which worms and insects to eat.
But for a totally different flavour....
Posted by mark at March 29, 2003 12:16 PM
...along with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
Posted by Kevin Connors at March 29, 2003 04:18 PM
The other/other white meat.
When I first heard the other/other white meat it was in a bad joke about babies.
Posted by jon at March 29, 2003 04:43 PM
I can see it now: The Oz SAS Cookbook. "A satellite dish makes an excellent wok when times are tough. And speaking of tough ththere was one Al Jeezera stringer we had who was both tough and stringy!"
Posted by Ric at March 30, 2003 07:08 PM
George W. Bush didn't give up cocaine, military desertion and underage girls so you folks could make jokes about his bestest war in the world.
Posted by Tim Blair at March 30, 2003 08:49 PM
George W. Bush didn't give up cocaine, military desertion and underage girls so you folks could make jokes about his bestest war in the world.
Posted by Tim Blair at March 30, 2003 08:50 PM
CIA intercept of Al-Aussie coded message from a cave in NE Iraq:
"Gotta help save the UN - let's forage a few froggies for dinna."
Posted by John K at March 31, 2003 07:49 AM
You warmongers, you know Cowboy George Bush would not allow the use of journalists like that. They need to eat BEEF, from texas, you idiots!!!!
This war is all about BEEF, and of course OIL. But GWB wants the SAS to eat more beef.
Posted by Tom at March 31, 2003 01:33 PM
You warmongers, you know Cowboy George Bush would not allow the use of journalists like that. They need to eat BEEF, from texas, you idiots!!!!
This war is all about BEEF, and of course OIL. But GWB wants the SAS to eat more beef.
Posted by Tom at March 31, 2003 01:33 PM
Here's an article which mentions what the Australians are up to:
http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/001197.shtml
Posted by Ken Hagler at March 31, 2003 06:59 PM
Killing the enemy is hard work, u get a bit hunry, theres nothing else around....
Posted by chrissi at June 9, 2003 07:56 AM
Killing the enemy is hard work, u get a bit hungry, theres nothing else around....
Posted by chrissi at June 9, 2003 07:56 AM
the fixing of a bayonet is not the fixing of steel to a rifle but the fixing of metal armour to the heart of the soldier fixing
Posted by with held at July 27, 2003 06:21 PM
For current resources on the SAS Regiments, including the Australian SAS Regiment, see http://www.survivalistskills.com/sas.htm.
There's a very interesting, continously updated, page of books on Australia history, biography and travel at http://www.rarehistorybooks.com/AUSTHIST.HTM.
There is also a substantial archive of fascinating and invaluable 'New World Order Intelligence Update' articles on the New World Order - which is currently 're-shaping' Australia - at http://www.survivalistskills.com/sect22.htm and archived also at http://www.rarehistorybooks.com/NWOLINKS.HTM. The 'NWOIU' site itself is currently being substantially re-constructed, but these archived articles are well worth reading.
Posted by John Whitley at July 31, 2003 05:45 AM
ummmm.....
im from Australian... and proud...
Whats with the SAS?
Yous love them or something?
I would serriously like to see The Australian SAS against Some of the US special forces ( just says the SEALS), i serriously think the Aus SAS would show the Seals a thing or two..
Posted by Adam at September 9, 2003 01:44 PM
hehe Adam I am aussie too.. look I have always wondered what an aussie SAS vs US/british elite forces battle will be like, and to say it frankly after talking to my friends uncle who was in the SAS I think niether would win, the reason is because the Aussie SAS and other special forces often have battle games against one another to keep their training up, and another little tid bit of info is that when an Aussie goes into the SAS they are trained in part in the US, Brittain, France, infact believe it or not but pretty much any special forces member of any country has trained in all countries, think of it like a student exchange program. Though I must admit the Aussie SAS does do some things other countries don't.
Posted by robert at September 18, 2003 12:35 PM
the aussie SAS would win because we aussie are the best race of people in the world.
Posted by bruce at October 21, 2003 04:53 AM
