Unfinished Business ; the Moment Midland Troops Hit Back at Iraqi Police Station. It Was ...

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Under cover of darkness on Christmas Day, this is the moment soldiers from the Staffordshire Regiment stormed a notorious police station in Basra and freed more than 100 Iraqi prisoners who had been tortured or faced execution.

About 500 Staffordshire Regiment troops swooped on the headquarters of the corrupt Serious Crime Unit in Basra, in one of the biggest operations led by the UK since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

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Unfinished Business ; the Moment Midland Troops Hit Back at Iraqi Police Station. It Was ...

The raid, Operation Thyme, came 15 months after one of the regiment, 18-year-old Private Karl Hinett, was petrol bombed following a mission to rescue two SAS troope...

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