The desert south of the 34 Latitude in Syria down to the 26
Latitude in Saudi Arabia is shown as Badiyat ash Sham in Syria,
Jordan, and Iraq and An Nafud in Saudi Arabia. It is one of the
bleakest and most inhospitable places on Earth. It is a barren,
featureless wilderness - bitterly cold and wet in winter and raging
hot in summer. Even the Bedouin have to struggle to survive as they
roam, stateless, across the borders of all four countries. It's the
desert in which the 1991 Gulf War was fought to remove Saddam
Hussein's Iraqi Forces from Kuwait.
That Gulf War spawned a number of accounts about Special Forces'
missions, but perhaps, none so poignant as that of the eight-man
SAS patrol, tasked to identify Scud missile launchers, of which
only two men returned - one severely wounded and the other
decorated for gallantry. After leaving the Army, one joined the
British Intelligence Directorate and the other followed a career in
commercial security which led to his appointment as Head of
Security at Number 10 Downing Street. But the Syrian Desert hid the
secret of what really happened to that eight-man SAS patrol. That
secret would not be uncovered until a BID agent is shot and the
dying gunman utters part of a name that makes no sense to anyone.
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