Re: Why the F*CK did they do that??

[Gurth <Gurth@xxxxxxxxx>]

According to Robert J. Hansen, on Mon, 01 Oct 2001 the word on the street was...

> More than that, too, wasn't there?  I seem to recall a Prince's Gate
> incident (or something like that) where terrorists took hostages.
> The UK ramped up the psychological pressure and finally publically
> confirmed that the SAS were mobilized and were en route.

The Prince's (or Princess, I'm not sure) Gate incident was the Iranian embassy 
siege in 1980, which made the SAS famous. The one you're referring to happened 
a few years later with some IRA members taking two people hostage in their own 
house, IIRC.

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