SAS Covert Missions

Operation Babylon, Iraq

By: Joey Hogan

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

In the prelude to the first Gulf war, a two-man SAS team were sent into Iraq to obtain vital intelligence on the building of Saddam Hussain’s supergun. The two-man team of Sergeant “Mitch” Mitchell along with a new recruit to the Regiment, Trooper “Bozzy” Bosworth were tasked to locate and report on the building of a supergun barrel that was being assembled on the side of a mountain in the Hamrin mountains just north of Tikrit. The mission was a simple mission to report on the progress of the build then move on to other sites of interest where intelligence suggested parts were being built and transported by rail. Unknown to the two men was that Saddam Hussain was about to invade Kuwait, but during their mission they stumbled on the secret movement of Saddam’s troops one night when they were investigating some railway sheds in Baghdad. Now their mission was ever changing they were asked to provide intelligence of Iraqi troops near the border with Kuwait and were asked to carry out small hit and run raids on the Iraqi supplies. When Iraq invaded Kuwait the two men were asked to rescue some people from Kuwait City and take them to an Area in the desert for extraction, there mission had got even more complicated when they had to extract a Iraqi couple who had been working on Saddam’s WMD only for the couple to disappear on the day of their extraction. The two men were then asked to provide intelligence on some more sites that could be being used for WMD’s. There short mission in Iraq turned into a longer mission before they made there way out of the desert along with another SAS team back to Saudi Arabia at the end of the war.