Margaret Thatcher Sas
When she was elected as head of the conservative party.
Margaret thatcher sas. While other vips and dignitaries visiting the sas have only begrudgingly accepted this offer the iron lady apparently jumped at the chance and insisted on being the hostage. A long lost document has revealed how margaret thatcher was forced to pay for the rebuilding of irans london embassy destroyed by the sas in a famous siege. It was one of these hostage rescue scenarios that the late margaret thatcher was asked to take part some time in the 80s while visiting an sas regiment.
Sas veteran who was margaret thatchers bodyguard died from an accidental overdose of insulin because he needed new glasses duncan campbell 68 found collapsed in his home in radford nottingham. In 1975 she became the first woman to lead a major political party in the uk. By karl smallwood on april 10th 2013 the lady in the picture up there the one surrounded by people who look like theyre about to mug the grim reaper is the late former british prime minister margaret thatcher and 3 members of the sas special air service.
Tom macdonald was part of the sas team which was drafted in after arab separatists stormed the building in 1980. Margaret thatcher considered an sas style raid to resupply britains besieged embassy in iraqi occupied kuwait which was running out of water food and fuel in the run up to the gulf war in september 1990 newly released downing street papers reveal. Born margaret hilda roberts 1925 2013 thatcher was a british stateswoman who is often called iron lady due to her uncompromising politics and leadership style.
The government has been accused of covering up the full extent of the uks support for indias bloody crackdown on sikhs in 1984. Here peter winner one of the leaders of the raid talks about the sass relationship with thatcher and what she meant to the regiment.