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Like millions of other Britons, I hated everything that Thatcher stood for regarding her views of welfare and social policy, and her government's treatment of the poor, sick and elderly during the 1980s - but she has been the only British Prime Minister since 1979 who has stood up for the British people and the rule of law in times of serious criminal or terrorist threat with strength and determination. If the SAS had not been sent into the Iranian Embassy once hostages started being killed, a message would have been sent that London was a soft touch for terror attacks and hostage-taking. Likewise, with the Argentinians invading the British territory of the Falkland Islands. The SAS - and the British armed forces generally - were respected and feared in most of the world back then. Since then, we've had Blair whose craven following of Bush Jnr into an illegal war exposed the UK to far more threat from Islamist terror than we'd ever seen before, right through to the governments of recent years who have dithered and wrung their hands while international violence has been imported onto our streets.
Millions didn't like her, but millions did. She gave me a 20 year career due to the Youth Opportunity Program. Labour had introduced it in 1978 and Maggie took it and expanded it. Can't see a government taking on another's thought and running with it now, no matter their colour
@@tallthinkev In fact apprenticeships that were a government business collaboration declined massively under Thatcher, it culminated in there being a massive shortage of tradesmen in the late 1990's. Then Blair through lobbying from business opened a floodgate of cheap European labour to come to Britain, a piggin disgrace.Craft apprenticeships worked very well of Britain for 100 years plus, the agenda was to deskill them & lower wages, this they succeeded in, shamefully. The dearth of young people working in skilled manual labour has had an immense impact on construction. Here's a fact, the upper echelons of construction will never have their offspring go into skilled trades, (they have deskilled them) not a chance, they are short sighted selfish charlatans. No nation, if Britain is worthy of really being a nation anymore would do that to their economy. You may think it is wise to just keep on importing manual skilled labour? If you do then for sure you are not a tradesman? Short sighted, short term economics has been the mantra of business & politicians in Britain for decades, the legacy is the shambles we have today. I am an electrician, not a politician, the politicians are the lackeys of the corporate elites, they do not have the interests of the overwhelming population of Britain at heart & they never did. It is not the responsibility of the British state to build the economies of Eastern Europe at the expense of the British people, that however is what they have done. Keep in mind & I know this through working with the people of Eastern Europe, they do not want immigrants in their nations & they openly admit that Britain is no more than a cash cow to them, they have no interest in Britain, that is just an incontrovertible fact. Who are your ilk kidding?
@@tallthinkev Lucky you. Not all employers in the YTS / YOP schemes were as willing to give young people jobs back then. I was given 5 months on a YTS, then I was made permanent. The company got a bonus from the government for every YTS they took on! Then 18 days later I was sacked for supposed bad time keeping! It turns out that I replaced the lad before me who was taken on and then he was sacked also. After me, an older guy was taken on, who, oddly enough, visited the depot (just before I was sacked) when the area manager was there. He knew the area manager, the depot Manager, the Foreman and the visiting Foreman from another branch! 2 days after sacking me, he was my replacement! I wonder how many other lads were taken on and dropped like that. Not just in that company but by other companies who saw a way to make a fast buck off the government?
@@JonathanReynolds1 John McAleese run round the Embassy and stopped the hijackers . One was shot on stairs by two other members. One surrendered outside.
@@JonathanReynolds1 soooo....I really dint want to crap all-over the memories if SAS heroes... but Mac... he had some serious charges laid against him and died bwfore he could be charged. Fucking gutted me because I saw him as an avenging angel. I still do not know but feck me.
The fact that Maggie just moved her head without a fuss, shows how much she respected those fierce and brave warriors. She had the most respect for our armed forces alongside Churchill. 🇬🇧
When the police are called they are there to try their best to make an arrest. When the SAS (special air service) are called there not there to make friends.
I was 8 when this happened. I come from The Netherlands. But I still remember this. It was on live TV in my country as breaking news. We only saw the views at the balcony but it was intense! From that moment on, I knew the SAS were something special. They did a magnificent job! Brits, you should be very proud of those men!
@marcelrenes2435 oh don't worry we are. It's nice to know that not all of continental Europe has disappeared down the woke hole. It's good to know common sense still exists in 'europe'. However we have always kind of seen the Dutch as more like us brits than, well I won't say.
I was working in a hotel in the New Forest that day, watched it on the staff room TV. I knew as soon as the SAS turned up those terrorists were toast. We should be very proud of our armed forces, SAS, SBS, Royal Marines.
I'm watching this for the second time, my missus was sucked into this, she's made me start it again. We both think your one of our favorite reactions channel,
When it hits the fan to the point that you call in the SAS, death of the enemy is expected. That is probably true for a lot of special forces/elite teams.
Exactly, and for the Iranians to throw their weapons at the very last minute and expect to be taken into custody is ridiculous.By that point there was only ever gonna be one outcome.
I was 14 when this happened. This was the first time I had ever heard of the SAS. I remember it so well as we come home from school, the day was sunny in the evening and it all kicked off about 5 o’clock as we are watching it on the television. There are no warnings then for young children and adults then for what we were you going to see? The SAS were absolutely brilliant.
My father was involved in operation Nimrod he was a SAS captain at the time I found this years later I thought he was just serving in the army. He never spoke about any of his service and remained silent yntil his death.
I watch the entire siege from start to finish take place live on the TV. When the newscaster was stood outside talking about it we could all see the black clad SAS sliding down ropes behind her, not till they threw the stun grenade threw the window did she realise it. The WHOLE THING just on what we could see outside was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.😱😱😱 Bangs, gunfire, smoke, eventually figures running down the side of the building,being grabbed by police,other SAS and thrown in vans , while smoke and fire etc was still going on. The SAS just disappeared from the screens without anyone ever knowing their names,injuries, where they’d gone too. Staggering event. The ruined Embassy stood empty for years.
I remember them interupting the scheduled programing & broadcasting this live on the TV, I watched it with my Dad, I was 9 - it was crazy! I was very proud of the SAS.
The hostage who said "This is not civilised behaviour", has I think missed the rather unfortunate truth. We can only have civilization because there are people willing to enforce the rules upon the more savage people in a society. There will always be people who want to harm others, whether that means serial killers, general violent criminals, or charismatic leaders. When such people arise we need groups like the SAS to deal with them. It would be lovely not to need such well trained people, but that would require a complete change in the very nature of humanity.
@laughingachilles I'm sure he regarded murdering an innocent hostage as 'humane'. Those men risked their own lives to save him and many others, and his attitude imo was very disrespectful. Would he have preferred it if they had been picked off one by one or he had never made it back to his family? Don't get me wrong, I do not believe in violence. But what I do believe in is doing what is necessary and when doing that puts those SAS men in danger of their own lives as well, and after they had treated one of his fellow hostages worse than an animal, imo they got what they deserved. In fact they were lucky that they were put out of their misery probably without even knowing it, unlike that hostage who knew exactly what was coming. 'Trever' seems to me like an early 80s version of woke. Yes I understand that he doesn't glory in death and nobody in their right mind does. The problem is those men were in the process of putting those hostages out of their minds for good. I can't remember seeing a greater degree of ingratitude in all my 51 years. Would he have preferred to await his turn and had someone have to explain how their husband/father wouldn't be coming home again? I found his comments simply staggering. Did he think they should instead of bribed them out with sweeties? Quite unreal.
@@Darrenski Well said. Maybe he's lived quite a gentle life and hasn't had to witness brutality, so when he came face to face with it, he couldn't process the reality. The only way to deal with brutal people is in the language they understand. As you say, this doesn't mean revelling in such things, it's just recognising that some actions are necessary ones.
The man who said he was tested and felt he was a coward, is a very honest man, not all of us could do what the SAS did, Indeed most of the regular army wouldn't pass selection, physically they probably could but it takes a special person to be able to think straight and adapt to a moving situation like those guys.
The IRA tried this shit check out the balcombe st siege when they were told the SAS were on their way they surrendered there and then they knew what the outcome would be Fatal 🤣🤣🤣
once its got to the point the SAS are going in, its game over, they had every chance in the world to surrender peacfully before then and once it got to that point their lives are already forfeit and trying surrender at that point will make no difference and anyone who thinks it should just doesnt grasp the realities of that kind of situation.
@@garyprice2771 The Royal Navy's special forces unit, the Special Boat Service (SBS ), is even more highly trained than the SAS. Why does nobody ever mention them?
@@davidlauder-qi5zv I really can't answer your question about training of the SBS.Regarding your perceived 'lack of mention" could possibly be because they are less likely to talk about their operational actions.
I remember watching this from the top of the double decker bus that the police stopped on the road going past Regents Park. When the SAS was going in I saw them swing down and into the window. When the smoke bomb went off I thought I had just watched a man dieing. It was terrifying in real life
Daniel👍a great reaction to a great documentary. Your channel is going from strength to strength with its awesome content,so props to you my friend,cheers mate✌️
Personally I don't understand how some of these people don't understand that there is no negotiating with terrorist, there are no rule at the end of the day, apart from kill or be killed
never get tired of watching documentaries about the iranian siege. As has been mentioned by many people we watched the exterior shots live on TV, it's one of those events that burns into your memory
The SAS weren't that publicly known in the UK in 1980, that's why Trevor said he saw a guy in a futuristic outfit, which was because they had never been seen someone like that in the UK.
Anyone who thinks the SAS were overly harsh and shot guys who had surrendered doesn't understand how fast this sort of thing plays out. If you take hostages and even go as far as shooting unarmed civilians you've had your chance to surrender peacefully and deserve what you get at that stage, if special forces or SWAT teams or etc go in at that point they will just shoot every one at that point whether theyt ry to surrender or not at that point and frankly are correct to do so. Just because some throws a gun on the floor doesnt mean they don't have another one in a pocket or a knife and will stab you (or a hostage) in the back the moment they get a chance, and if you wait to find out its too late. Once its got to the point where the police or special forces have to go in, its too late to surrender, end of story.
Case in point later in the video where one of the terrorists managed to hide in with the hostages and was getting out of the building and had a friggin grenade. If you give him even a second before shooting him as the SAS guy says, thats all the time he needs to pull the pin and then you, and everyone else around him are f**ked. Once it gets to the point where things have gone hot, youre dead. If you wanted to surrender you should have done so when the negotioators were asking you to earlier. Period. (Now if they had taken the guy who was out, restrained and cleared fully and in custody back in and shot him after the fact that would have been a whole different story and straight up murder but they didnt.... one of them might have been inclined to do so but thankfull his superiors stopped him as that would have been a whole other mess... (frankly though Im inclined to concur with Denis Thatcher 'shame they let one of the bastards live' but once he was out and secured taking him back in wouldnt have been combat any more that would have been an execution and thats straight up murder at that point_
I read that at the debriefing in the room with Maggie Thatcher when they left everything shiny had disappeared as an x solder myself I don't doubt that at all.
*The shocking thing with all of this. Is the Iranian government demanded that Brittan would pay for the damages to the embassy,or they would bring the SAS into court.
I don't see the controversy in shooting the two that surrendered, they had five days to walk out, not to mention the chance of a grenade. If you don't want to get gunned down by the SAS, don't take hostages in Britain, and definitely don't shoot any of them.
There was an SAS operation 5 miles from me on the 8th May 1987, Loughgall NI. 8 ira members took it upon themselves to attack a police station. The SAS were waiting for them by setting a trap. The terrorists were taken down! Not one of the stories you get to hear but they were ruthless in their operation!!
Nearly 3 years ago in August 2021, a bust of "Mac" John McAleese MM who had passed from a heart attack in Greece ten years earlier in 2011, was placed in the space of rememberance of the small town of Laurieston near Falkirk, where he had grown up Also one of the very first things I remember seeing on TV (I was two, about to turn three)
I appreciate what you risk to produce this for us, I lived it when it happen, I’ve seen this documentary on tv but it was good to see it again. It’s real history with the protagonists giving their thoughts, always good to get a view looking in retrospect. I’m sure one day we will be able to tickle people in to submission with drones but until python we have the SAS I hope you tube don’t leave decisions to the bots. Sensitive people should stick to the cute kittens and shit. Thanks again, great reaction
John 'MAC' Mcaleese, one of the Team leaders of this operation, On 20 August 2009 his elder son, Serjeant Paul McAleese of 2nd Battalion The Rifles, was killed on active service in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb during a foot patrol in Helmand Province.
39:25 - I vividly remember watching the assault live on TV, the B.B.C. dropped whatever we had been watching and instead showed this playing out. Up to this point the S.A.S. where not exactly what you'd call a household name. This moment changed that forever. Absolute legends.
FYI: that week and that day us in the UK we’re watching the whole thing and the final hour was actually a shock to us all! We had an announcement on the TV and that was it we put the kettle down forgotten and sat down to the greatest drama show on earth. It was the first time ordinary people in the UK had heard of the SAS (Special Air Service) and then the whole world knew we had these really extraordinarily well trained knights in black armour (or so it seamed to us) were there and ready to destroy the enemies of the Queen and country. I was in the RAF as ground crew at the time in the Harrier Force In Germany so I knew who they were and what they could do! Then a year and a half later the Argentineans did the most stupidest thing and believed Great Britain would not react to them invading the our Protectorate of The Falkland Islands and South Georgia thinking they would be too far away to worry about! This happened on the 2nd of April 1982 and within 2 weeks the first echelon of the navy and the British Armed Forces set sail for the 4,000 mile journey to show them the error of their ways! Cheers Aah Kid!
I remember watching it on tv at the time. Thanks for doing this, it was very interesting & really enjoyed your reaction. Longer videos are fine with me
The British band, Jethro Tull, later did a song on their 'A' album, called Crossfire, which is about the Iranian Embassy siege and the Police officer who was inside.
If someone came up to me & said "Lads, I've got a great idea, Let's go to an embassy in the middle of London & hold some hostages.......It'll be fine". I would have said "fuck off, are you insane"?
Originally coming from Hereford I know that one of those blokes on that vid gets called out regularly by other ex SAS from that era, including the Embassy Siege team leader Rusty, for his actual involvement in the siege, he was there, but not in the capacity that he maintains in the vid, this has got him banned from the "Camp" in Hereford (Credenhill) as he's making quite a good living from books and public speaking from his embellished involvement in the siege (Not mentioning any names but it's definitely not John Mac who was an outstanding soldier) ...As Lofty Wiseman, another old boy ex SAS once said in an interview when asked if he was in the Embassy Siege..."I wasn't there, but I know about a 1000 men who were" 😀
Robin Horsfall has taught thousands of kids karate and done inspirational talks and is leading guy in looking after vets. John "Mac" McAleese's son was killed in Afghanistan in road side bomb on active duty.
Have you heard about the time Maggie Thatcher visited Sterling Lines, and volunteered to play the hostage, in a training exercise, in the Killing House?
The funniest story I heard was little boy watching the event on telly and saw his dad. He never knew what his dad did for a living nor did his wife, they only knew he had an important job in London.
@quercus8833 It doesn't make any difference if we are or not. I personally think the sentence was long enough. He was deemed to be no threat before his release, he's old now. I'd usually suggest he be deported on release, though as I understand, part of the reason he was allowed to stay here is that he'd be killed the second he landed. So I'm torn. Half of me thinks he has done his time. Half of me questions whether a foreign terrorist should ever be allowed freedom and a name change in the country he committed the crime.
He is housed etc by local council apparently but one of the SAS soldiers involved in this siege who became homeless was found on the streets years ago by another comrade and he was repeatedly refused help by the same council apparently.
Mate when the SAS goes in there is no negotiation they are there to end the situation. As you said the time to surrender had passed and a hostage had been killed. It was up to the SAS then to take over and finish the job, the SAS do not play games.
@@kaafromoz John McLeesh saved all the hostages. He round the embassy and stopped the hijackers. One was shot by two other members on stairs. One surrendered outside.
I know someone who was in prison with the surviving terrorist. The hostages hid him because he was 19, I think, at the time. Apparently, the hostages felt sorry for him as he was a kid. I think he's still in prison, not 100% on that.
At 47:07, when the SAS guy is asked "Did you feel anything when you shot him?", I expected him to give the traditional sniper's reply of "Yes, recoil."
What alot of Amaricans upto 2011 did not understand is that Britain had been dealing with terrorism from 1969 we had upto then eleven years of bombing ambushing shootings . And in Europe there was Red September AOKA PLO the Munich Olympics entebbe and many air jackings and ship hijackings . In Europe countrys had to draw the line or Terrorist would walk all over you . Upto now this has not happend in the US not much compared to Europe I hope you can deal with it with skill Luck and the grace of god
When I initially hear he has 12 bullets and revolver I thought coward ...then after seconds I thought hold on, they got sub machine gun, a guy with grenade and a pistol and another with pistol...then there's the others who don't know about...I would call NOT to unless one on one in room and then you have to be a brave bugger...so I'm not so sure ..maybe not..😮😂
49:12... "most controversial killings".... Lets not forget that several seconds earlier they had executed one hostage and attempted to kill another. The blood is on their hands at that point. Our SAS lads had it down. You are a threat and need to be removed from the situation. If they had not done what they had done im sure it could be called controversial. But the way it was playing out, like you said they where not taking prisoners. Only way to ensure that the remaining hostages are safe. Love your reaction on this. You should definatly watch the movie on this if you havent already its called 6 days and its on Netflix.
@WreckedNation01 I thought you were an expert on terrorism and 'state kill squads' as I've not watched channel before , I see you nodding head like you know what's going on then we come to a point you exclaim - they going thru their plans a b c d , in their minds they prob playing out scenarios.. no they don't at all, next door they will be smoking , drinking coffee and sat like a group of Mates waiting to go on a jolly boys outing..they went thru the embassy lay out on the initial briefing..they don't know where the hostages are inside so it would be counter productive , counter intuitive to presume a set of scenarios and 'plans' established on what ifs , these aren't a football team..they are trained assassins, they may call them anti terrorist, sas whatever but they are essentially singular hit men who work as a group , a team but are very adept also at working alone and as a team have to at points in missions work alone to take out a threat. They wouldn't be sat planning or even apprehensive to the point of going over anything in their mind..they would be on a state of readiness but that doesn't mean apprehension..these people don't sit stressing for 3 days until called to do the 'task' they are trained adept killers and know they can take these people out regardless what they are armed with, especially non tactically trained civilian terrorists. So jokes and quiet chatter would be what's going on in there , along with cleaning weapons sporadically if sat over a period of time ..then went the call comes is when the butterflies tingle and the apprehension comes but that is channeled into a kind of positive energy that is projected and expelled towards the target. Of course they feel a twinge of nerves , that's human but what they don't feel is fear. If they did they would be in the wrong job..people like us feel fear..these people train everyday to know they are the best at what they do..eradicate targets. 😉😉😉
You touched on a great point with the guy with the concealed revolver. He only had 12 rounds so if he uses it, it's all or nothing and he has to be good. But not only that, he actually only has 6 rounds. So he better be John Wick if had to go that route. 6, then extract, try and load in the other 6, and hope you're quick enough and not fumbling with adrenaline, while the other guys have machine pistols ready to go. No thank you very much sir 🙏.
And "plans go south immediately" "The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley/"often go awry"" Not only the enemies plan, it goes for you too. People often forget that. They think of themselves in the hero role, ready to save the day. Till they fumble and they lose. If he had to go that way early on he is target number 1 and the rest will follow. All about the opportune moment. Don't force or rush it.
It is a weird paradox that cowards often become the bravest of men when they are put in certain circumstances. I'm a coward, but I have had to overcome my own cowardice to occasionally do brave things. Thankfully it has only happened to me a few times.
I remember watching this on TV at the time, when Sim Harris went back inside I didn't realise he was a hostage who had already got out, I thought that when the SAS were calling him over he was some sort of special type of Policeman going in with them, and I thought he was super tough because he had no special gear on. I was only a kid. lol
The SAS had managed to remain practically unknown for decades. The terrorists clearly had no clue as to their lethal capability. In the 44 years since, no terrorists have ever tried a similar operation in the UK.
I remember this lk yesterday,i was only 11yr old but it stuck in my mind ever since...fk with the SAS or any of our SF and it wont be a good ending for them...they really are the worlds top tier military..so proud they are British 🇬🇧🇬🇧
