Special Night Squads

He was reared a conservative evangelical who could quote scripture at will, and he put his incredible qualities of anti-insurgency techniques to the service of the Haganah fighters, who were the Yishuv, the Jewish inhabitants of Palestine, the immigrants' own defense squads.

And he built something he called the special night squads, joint units of British soldiers and Haganah fighters who took the war to the Arab villages in pre-dawn raids across the Galilee hills.

An official British report describes the method as extreme and cruel.

They include beatings and torture and summary execution of the suspects.