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Oct 5, 2026
Sam KileyHOST
It would leave three IRA volunteers dead in a matter of minutes.
Sam KileyHOST
I'm Sam Kiley, World Affairs Editor at The Independent, and you're listening to SAS.
Sam KileyHOST
The Shadow
JohnGUEST
War.
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with the team.
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mashed through the skylight, threw a ladder down, the lads went down, we then followed in, cleared the top roof,
Sam KileyHOST
The Shadow War is an Aura Studios production for The Independent, hosted by me, the World Affairs Editor, Sam Kiley.
Sam KileyHOST
It was produced by Will Aslett, edited and sound designed by Keith English, and the line producer was Claire Cottrell.
Sam KileyHOST
He's never spoken publicly before about his role in those dramatic few minutes when he and his SAS colleagues stormed the Iranian embassy in central London live on TV one evening in May, 1980.
Sam KileyHOST
I'm Sam Kiley, world affairs editor at The Independent, and you are listening to SAS: The Shadow War, the story of the conflict in Northern Ireland revealed for the first time by Britain's secret soldiers in their own words.
Sam KileyHOST
In this episode, we're gonna hear about two well-known operations.
Sam KileyHOST
Both occurred because the state ran out of options and used the only tool it had left, the SAS.
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Sam KileyHOST
In the next episode, we'll hear details of life in the shadows of Northern Ireland, where months of covert work in hedgerows and back alleys can end in a burst of gunfire.
DavidGUEST
And then he just walked along in front of us and covered the hedgerow in, uh, what was now obviously petrol, 'cause we're sitting there and this petrol's running down our face, it's all over us, and we're thinking, "This is gonna get quite ugly." And his lad throws the match into the hedge on our right, and then- [explosion]
Sam KileyHOST
The Shadow War is an Aura Studios production for The Independent, hosted by me, the world affairs editor, Sam Kiley.
Sam KileyHOST
It was produced by Will Hazlitt, edited and sound designed by Keith English, and the line producer was Claire Cottrell.
Sam KileyHOST
It would leave three IRA volunteers dead in a matter of minutes.
Sam KileyHOST
I'm Sam Kiley, world affairs editor at The Independent, and you're listening to SAS: The Shadow War.
Sam KileyHOST
In this series, SAS soldiers are breaking cover for the first time to reveal their secret world and in their own words.
Sam KileyHOST
Since the creation of the Special Air Service in 1941, the identities and even the actions of this elite military unit have been secret, their work focused on irregular warfare from the Second World War through Malaya, Oman, to Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, and even maybe Ukraine.
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GeorgeGUEST
We then followed in, cleared the top room.
GeorgeGUEST
[tense music]
Sam KileyHOST
The Shadow War is an Aura Studios production for The Independent, hosted by me, the world affairs editor, Sam Kiley.
Sam KileyHOST
It was produced by Will Hazlitt, edited and sound designed by Keith English, and the line producer was Claire Cottrell.
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Every soldier who might discharge his weapon and kill somebody is going to need his lawyer on speed dial.
Sam KileyHOST
I'm Sam Kiley, World Affairs Editor of The Independent.
Sam KileyHOST
Welcome to SAS, The Shadow War.
Tessa FlemingHOST
With Israel edging closer to another election, fresh questions are being asked about his political future and whether his grip on power can survive the growing scrutiny.
Tessa FlemingHOST
I'm Tessa Fleming, and today on the Indo Daily, I'm joined by Sam Kiley, World Affairs Editor at the UK Independent and host of the World of Trouble podcast, and by Middle Eastern correspondent with The Economist, Gregg Carlstrom, to discuss the UK government's seismic policy shift and to ask what the political future holds for Netanyahu.
Tessa FlemingHOST
Sam Kiley, earlier this week it was announced that the UK government will be implementing a trade ban between themselves and Israeli settlements.
Tessa FlemingHOST
So maybe just talk to me a little bit about what this entails, what the ban includes.
Sam KileyGUEST
Well, it's a very good question because it's very, very difficult indeed.
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Sam KileyGUEST
And there is a sort of broad brush, um, element within the progressive left as, as there is in, in a kind of the more moronic parts of, of the right as well, that has a sort of natural anti-Semitism, whether it's a conspiracy that Jews are controlling the weather, the banking system, the media, uh, or my athlete's foot.
Sam KileyGUEST
Um, it is something that, you know, fairly dim conspiracy theorists will peddle, and there are plenty of them on the left.
Tessa FlemingHOST
[pensive music] Sam Kiley, thank you very much.