http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/-t1.htm Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:10:24 GMT 10 http://illiweb.com/fa/empty.gif http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/-t1.htm http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/we-are-all-that-stands-between-the-monsters-and-the-weak-by-michael-marks-t342.htm Tarfu The sun beat like a hammer, not a cloud was in the sky. The mid-day air ran thick with dust, my throat was parched and dry. With microphone clutched tight in hand and cameraman in tow, I ducked beneath a fallen roof, surprised to hear, "Stay low." My eyes blinked several times before in shadow I could see, The figure stretched across the rubble, steps away from me. He wore a cloak of burlap strips, all shades of grey and brown, ... Media Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:10:24 GMT http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/we-are-all-that-stands-between-the-monsters-and-the-weak-by-michael-marks-t342.htm#477 http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/we-are-all-that-stands-between-the-monsters-and-the-weak-by-michael-marks-t342.htm http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/soldier-the-autobiography-t212.htm Admin General Sir Mike Jackson's illustrious career in the British Army has spanned almost 45 years and all that time he has shown loyalty, courage and commitment to the British army whilst also being an undeniable media attraction. A man of substance where foreign policy is concerned, he has served in theatres from the Artic to the jungle but is perhaps best known for his role in charge of the British troops to end ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, for assembling the British ground component of the ... Media Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:26:14 GMT http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/soldier-the-autobiography-t212.htm#317 http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/soldier-the-autobiography-t212.htm http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/bravo-two-zero-t211.htm Admin In January 1991, eight members of the SAS regiment embarked upon a top secret mission that was to infiltrate them deep behind enemy lines. Under the command of Sergeant Andy McNab, they were to sever the underground communication link between Baghdad and north-west Iraq, and to seek and destroy mobile Scud launchers. Their call sign: BRAVO TWO ZERO. Each man laden with 15 stone of equipment, they patrolled 20km across flat desert to reach their objective. Within days, their location was ... Media Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:19:53 GMT http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/bravo-two-zero-t211.htm#316 http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/bravo-two-zero-t211.htm http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/immediate-action-t210.htm Admin In "Bravo Two Zero", Andy McNab gave an account of his experiences as commander of an SAS patrol behind enemy lines in Iraq. Now he tells the story of his life, from the day he was found in a Harrod's carrier bag on the steps of Guy's Hospital to the day he went to fight in the Gulf War. As a delinquent youth, McNab kicked against society; as a young soldier he waged war against the IRA in the streets and fields of South Armagh; and as a member of 22 SAS Regiment he was at the ... Media Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:17:25 GMT http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/immediate-action-t210.htm#315 http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/immediate-action-t210.htm http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-crisis-four-t187.htm Admin In British military intelligence, deniable operations is the most dangerous tightrope you can walk. Ex-SAS man, Nick Stone, has no choice in the matter. He may be tough, resourceful, ruthless, highly trained, but he still must do what his masters want, whatever that might be. Sarah Greenwood is beautiful, steel-willed, intelligent, cunning - the only woman Stone has ever let under his guard. And now he's been sent to hunt her down... As the pair are pursued through the backwoods of the American ... Media Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:32:39 GMT http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-crisis-four-t187.htm#291 http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-crisis-four-t187.htm http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-remote-control-t188.htm Admin Nick Stone left the Special Air Service in 1988, soon after the shooting of three IRA terrorists in Gibraltar. Now working for British Intelligence on deniable operations, he discovers the seemingly senseless murders of a fellow SAS soldier and his family in Washington, DC. Only a seven-year-old daughter, Kelly, has survived - and the two of them are immediately on the run from unidentified pursuers. Stone doesn't even know which of them is the target. Outside of Pakistan, the world's ... Media Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:38:25 GMT http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-remote-control-t188.htm#292 http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-remote-control-t188.htm http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-firewall-t185.htm Admin The Russians were serious players. If things didn't go as planned, Sergei said, I'd be lucky to be shot dead in the hotel lobby. If they captured me, I'd be taken to some remote bit of wasteland and have my stomach slit open. They'd pull my lungs out and then leave me to watch them flop around on my chest like a couple of freshly caught mullet for the thirty minutes it would take me to die. These things happen, he had explained, when you mess with the main men in Russian Organized Crime. ... Media Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:27:33 GMT http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-firewall-t185.htm#289 http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-firewall-t185.htm http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-last-light-t184.htm Admin When Secret Intelligence Service deniable operator Nick Stone aborts an officially sanctioned assassination attempt at the Houses of Parliament, having realized who the target is, he is given a chilling ultimatum by his bosses: fly to Panama and finish the job, or Kelly, the eleven-year-old orphan in his guardianship will be killed. At any other stage of his life the task would have been run of the mill for a man of Stone's skills and experience. But Stone is on the edge, struggling to ... Media Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:21:05 GMT http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-last-light-t184.htm#288 http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-last-light-t184.htm http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-liberation-day-t182.htm Admin November 2001. A Zodiac inflatable slips away from a submarine off the North African coast. If he hadn't needed American citizenship so badly, Nick Stone wouldn't have agreed to do this one last job, but the CIA's offer of a new life in the United States, and the chance to share it with Carrie, the woman he's fallen in love with, is one he cannot refuse. The job seems simple enough for a man of his particular skills: infiltrate into the hostile and violent republic of Algeria, kill ... Media Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:12:37 GMT http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-liberation-day-t182.htm#286 http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-liberation-day-t182.htm http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-dark-winter-t180.htm Admin Outside of Pakistan, the world's highest concentration of al-Qaeda lurks in South-East Asia and there, Nick Stone's bosses get wind of an act of terror that will dwarf even the nightmare of 9/11. When Stone is despatched to Malaysia by the CIA to assassinate a biochemist, he expects his mission to be a straightforward part of the fight against Bin Laden. But there are complications, not least because he is working alongside an attractive woman whose motives he doesn�t fully understand. ... Media Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:28:20 GMT http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-dark-winter-t180.htm#284 http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-dark-winter-t180.htm http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-deep-black-t179.htm Admin Nick Stone's future has never looked so bleak. The only person he's ever loved is dead.The only people who might give him a reason not to join her have turned their backs. Until a chance encounter with a man whose life he saved ten years ago... A simple quest in Baghdad takes Stone into the heart of a chilling conspiracy; too late, he realizes that he is being used as bait to lure into the open a man he believes can offer some salvation but whom the darker forces of the West will stop at nothing ... Media Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:24:31 GMT http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-deep-black-t179.htm#283 http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-deep-black-t179.htm http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-the-grey-man-t178.htm Admin Kevin Dodds leads a dull, uneventful life. He has a steady job at the bank, a nice house and car. His wife goes to Bingo on a Saturday night, but he usually stays in to save money. But Kevin has spent enough quiet nights in watching TV and decides he'd like a night out himself. And he's not talking about a pint and a packet of peanuts down at the local. He's going to attempt to pull off a daring bank robbery single handed. Kevin is about to take a heart-thumping step into the unknown. For once, ... Media Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:22:16 GMT http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-the-grey-man-t178.htm#282 http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-the-grey-man-t178.htm http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-aggressor-t177.htm Admin Ex-deniable operator Nick Stone seems to be living his dream, not a care in the world as he steers his camper van round the surfing and parachuting paradise of Australia, a board on the roof, a freefall rig behind him, and a beautiful young backpacker at his side. But when he sees a news report of the massacre of women and children in a terrorist outrage the other side of the world, long-suppressed memories are triggered, and Nick knows he must risk everything to repay a longstanding debt ... Media Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:19:29 GMT http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-aggressor-t177.htm#281 http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-aggressor-t177.htm http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-recoil-t176.htm Admin Recuperating in Switzerland after a job that cost the life of one of his closest friends, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone is looking for a quiet life. But when his private life starts to disintegrate, Nick is reluctantly forced back into action. The trail leads him to Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it isn't long before his dark past comes knocking on his door... Recoil is another pulsating example of modern thriller writing at its very best: compelling, authentic and ... Media Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:10:15 GMT http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-recoil-t176.htm#280 http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-recoil-t176.htm http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/my-war-killing-time-in-iraq-t173.htm Admin 'Once we passed the checkpoint at the border, it hit me. I was like, Holy S$%t, this is it, I'm entering a combat zone. Cool!' At twenty-six Colby Buzzell, unemployed and living at home, decided to join the US Army. Within months he was in Iraq, a machine gunner in the controversial Stryker Brigade Combat Team, an army unit on the cutting edge of combat technology and the first of its kind. Trapped amid 'guerrilla warfare, urban-style' in Mosul, Iraq, Buzzell was struck by the bizarre and ... Media Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:23:57 GMT http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/my-war-killing-time-in-iraq-t173.htm#277 http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/my-war-killing-time-in-iraq-t173.htm http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/eight-lives-down-t172.htm Admin ‘If fate is against me and I’m killed, so be it, but make it quick and painless. If I’m wounded, don’t let me be crippled. But above all don’t let me F$%k up the task’ So goes the bomb technician’s prayer before every bomb he defuses. For Chris Hunter, it is a prayer he says many times over his four month tour of Iraq. His is the most dangerous job in the world in the most dangerous place in the world - to make safe the British sector in Iraq against some of the most hardened and technically ... Media Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:16:16 GMT http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/eight-lives-down-t172.htm#276 http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/eight-lives-down-t172.htm http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-crossfire-t171.htm Admin Body Guarding a TV crew on the streets of war-torn Basra, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone seems certain to die when insurgent gunmen attack. Only the reporter's swift action saves his life. When the reporter vanishes within hours, presumed kidnapped, Stone is asked by the Intelligence Service to find him. The trail leads from Iraq to London, Dublin, and ultimately Kabul - the dark and brutal city where governments, terrorism and big business inexorably collide. Caught in the crossfire, Stone's ... Media Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:12:35 GMT http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-crossfire-t171.htm#275 http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/andy-mcnab-crossfire-t171.htm http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/sniper-one-the-blistering-true-story-of-a-british-battle-group-under-siege-t170.htm Admin ANDY McNAB 'You can taste the dust and cordite. One of the best first-hand accounts of combat that I've ever read.' MARK SPICER, author of Illustrated Manual of Sniper Skills 'This book may upset the system, but it's a story that should be told ... their story matches any act of heroism in British history and they've earned their right to be heard.' Sunday Telegraph 'A highly-charged, action filled, adrenalin-pumped, page-turning read that, frankly, knocks the socks off all ... Media Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:02:49 GMT http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/sniper-one-the-blistering-true-story-of-a-british-battle-group-under-siege-t170.htm#274 http://themilitaryforums.darkbb.com/media-f47/sniper-one-the-blistering-true-story-of-a-british-battle-group-under-siege-t170.htm