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Breakfast at Babs
Written mostly in Iraq post mission the events described in this novel are either true, based on fact or fictionalised from real experiences.
​The real mission was to capture a 'person of interest'
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The excitement throughout 539 ASRM, based in the small village of Turnchapel in Plymouth, was tangible, this was a serious mission.
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Our boat group on permanent short notice to move had to deploy to Iraq within days, plan, prepare, and forward deploy to a FOB (forward operating base) and execute a mission into the unknown.
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Everyone including the intelligence services who were tracking him assumed 'Abdulla' was moving large quantities of weapons, ammunition and maybe fighters.
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His movements from Iran through the waterways and channels into Iraq were linked with the growing insurrections in Al Amarah.
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As our trap closed we realised there was no way he was moving anything large, but what could be so important that could only be moved in a small skiff at night?
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