23-06-2013, 11:09 AM
The pretext that the sultan would buy contracts on four SAS who participated in this event:
The first pressing problem that Qaboos bin Said faced as Sultan was an armed communist insurgency from South Yemen, the Dhofar Rebellion (19651975). The Sultanate eventually defeated the incursion with help from the Shah of Iran, Jordanian troops sent from his friend King Hussein of Jordan, British Special Forces, and the Royal Air Force.
is counterintuitive. Our friend the colonel from Vietnam remarked his fellow officers invited him to Saudi as good money was offered for security. That would have been in the period of the Rebellion.
I did read Shadow Over Babylon by David Mason. It was awkward--that suspension of disbelief thing never even close. The sniper shot Saddam in the slapstick anatomy. Somehow reality made this novel a nonstarter: body doubles, decoy convoys, brutal retaliation as plot after plot was uncovered.
In re Mason's reviews, one said between Clancy and Forsythe--Clancy is so wordy he's unreadable; and, he is proudly pursuing that one book a year for his two million readers. As for Forsythe, nothing approaches Day of the Jackal.
In terms of tampering with BMW brakes: very relevant with Hasting's sudden demise.
The first pressing problem that Qaboos bin Said faced as Sultan was an armed communist insurgency from South Yemen, the Dhofar Rebellion (19651975). The Sultanate eventually defeated the incursion with help from the Shah of Iran, Jordanian troops sent from his friend King Hussein of Jordan, British Special Forces, and the Royal Air Force.
is counterintuitive. Our friend the colonel from Vietnam remarked his fellow officers invited him to Saudi as good money was offered for security. That would have been in the period of the Rebellion.
I did read Shadow Over Babylon by David Mason. It was awkward--that suspension of disbelief thing never even close. The sniper shot Saddam in the slapstick anatomy. Somehow reality made this novel a nonstarter: body doubles, decoy convoys, brutal retaliation as plot after plot was uncovered.
In re Mason's reviews, one said between Clancy and Forsythe--Clancy is so wordy he's unreadable; and, he is proudly pursuing that one book a year for his two million readers. As for Forsythe, nothing approaches Day of the Jackal.
In terms of tampering with BMW brakes: very relevant with Hasting's sudden demise.