AN SAS hit team was last night hunting down the barbaric killers of Ken Bigley.
The troops and America's crack Delta Force were ordered: "Nail the bastards" after Ken, 62, was beheaded in Iraq. They were closing in on the town of Latifiya, 22 miles south west of Baghdad, where Liverpool engineer Ken is thought to have been killed. Intelligence officers at Britain's GCHQ believe they have identified the area where butcher Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is holed up. Zarqawi is believed to have personally executed Ken and two Americans snatched with him last month. | Well, he keeps saying he did. I don't know if he's putting himself that close to the action. Maybe he's a hand's on type of manager. |
An SAS rescue unit has been on standby in Baghdad for a fortnight. Communications between the kidnappers and al-Qaeda sympathisers have been intercepted. | The Brits are very tightlipped about intel like this, they must want this released. |
Delta Force — America's counter-terrorist equivalent of the SAS — are leading the operation which has already swooped on 70 members of Zarqawi's group. |