As much as I would have liked it to be otherwise and as much as I would have prefered to hear that these two services men had been linched and hung by the angry locals.... these photos don't show anything that proves or even suggests that these two were planting roadside bombs to blame on insurgents.

Strange as it might seem to some but soldiers in a war zone are quite likely to be armed - the machine gun, and other heavy weaponary is just the kind of thing your avergae rambo would want to be keeping on hand in the back of their car, along with car jack, jump leads etc.

Likewise, radio equipement is kinda essential don't you think? Every journalist would have the same stuff to hand, every NGO aid worker likewise.

And as for the disguisses... I think it fair to say that those white males of western apperance travelling around without a convoy for protection mighty also consider avoiding looking blatently like the occupier while travelling around in areas in which a couple of lone soldiers would (quite rightly) attract trouble.

I think we can forget the whole, not wearing uniform means you are a spy, thing as well. Remember, while Iraq is a war zone, technically the war is over as Saddams government nolonger exists and an 'interim' government (effectively the USA) is 'onside' with the occupiers.

When I heard the two had been caught with mines or explosives I laughed - please they'd been caught red handed. However, those photos don't show shit.

Had these two men been Iraqis we would have seen Blair and Bush screaming TERRORISTS TERRORISTS. So why is there this difference, if a white man carries weapons in civilan clothes then it proofs nothing but if a "arab" looking man just "looks" strange he might be a terrorist threat. These two men should have been sent to an Iraqi court. They are suspected terrorists.

Had these two men been Iraqis we would have seen Blair and Bush screaming TERRORISTS TERRORISTS. So why is there this difference, if a white man carries weapons in civilian clothes then it proofs nothing but if an "arab" looking man just "looks" strange he might be a terrorist threat. These two men should have been sent to an Iraqi court. They are suspected terrorist with lots of weapons etc with them and should have be treated thereafter. Not smashing the police station and setting them free, this is an outrage and should be strongly condemned and have serious consequences for the UK forces in Iraq.

N, I do agree that from the pic there might be no evidence that they were planting roadside bombs, and it does look like a seemingly standard equipment for some SAS shit. However, the fact that they were armed and undercover means that they were up to no good whatsoever. Assassination? Recon? In any case their actions would surely get some people killed so in the end does it matter if they were planting a bomb or just giving co-ordinates to a "surgical" air strike. The method hardly matters when people end up getting killed. Let's face it: there is no difference between terrorism and war. They are the same. Terrorism as we know it is just what the powerful like to call war (legitimate or not) that poor, powerless and people of different colour than pink are engaged in.

Jean Charles de Menezes was executed in cold-blood for mistakenly being a SUSPECTED terrorist, when he wasn't carrying shit or even a Muslim. These SAS guys were caught dressed as the Medhi Army with EXPLOSIVES and DETONATORS and got rescued by ten Warrior tanks when the "suicide bombing" was rumbled, a bombing like the one which killed 140 innocent people in Iraq last Wednesday, three times more than the special forces operation in London on 7/7.

three times more than the special forces operation in London on 7/7.


Do you still believe this then,when even the most harden skeptics admit that it was a few Leeds's Muslim's .Mister tell me your special powers.

that poor, powerless and people of different colour than pink are engaged in.

Good you lot are obssesed with peoples skin colour white,brown and now pink,no wonder the hard right loonys get a look in on here.

Mr lustbather pink and white with a few brwon bits