History of the Special Air Service (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "History of the Special Air Service" in English language version.

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archive.org (Global: 6^th place; English: 6^th place)

Bell 1997, pp. 487–488. Bell, J. Bowyer (1997). The Secret Army: The IRA. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 1-56000-901-2.
Atkinson 1994, p. 177. Atkinson, Rick (1994). Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0-395-71083-9.
Atkinson 1994, p. 178. Atkinson, Rick (1994). Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0-395-71083-9.
Gall 2013. Gall, Sandy (2013). War Against the Taliban: Why It All Went Wrong in Afghanistan. Bloomsbury Paperbacks. ISBN 978-1408822340.

archive.today (Global: 14^th place; English: 14^th place)

"John Woodhouse". The Times. 21 February 2008. Archived from the original on 2 November 2024. Retrieved 21 February 2025.

awm.gov.au (Global: 2,831^st place; English: 1,786^th place)

"Malayan Emergency". Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 31 March 2010.

bbc.co.uk (Global: 8^th place; English: 10^th place)

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"Irish police arrest former IRA killer". BBC News. 4 January 2000. Retrieved 3 April 2010.
"1983: IRA gunmen shot dead in SAS ambush". BBC. 4 December 1983. Retrieved 3 April 2010.
"IRA deaths: The four shootings". BBC News. 4 May 2001. Retrieved 3 April 2010.
Summers, Chris (28 January 2009). "The SAS broke the rules of war". BBC News. Retrieved 3 April 2010.

bbc.com (Global: 20^th place; English: 30^th place)

"David Stirling: The rogue soldier who created the SAS". BBC News. 27 November 2022. Retrieved 1 November 2025.
"SAS unit repeatedly killed Afghan detainees, BBC finds". BBC News. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
Urban, Mark (19 January 2012). "Inside story of the UK's secret mission to beat Gaddafi". Newsnight. BBC. Broadcast 18 January 2012 BBC2. Retrieved 25 January 2021.

books.google.com (Global: 3^rd place; English: 3^rd place)

Ryan 2003. Ryan, Mike (2003). Secret Operations of the SAS. Motorbooks International. ISBN 07-60-31414-4.
Ryan 2003, p. 74. Ryan, Mike (2003). Secret Operations of the SAS. Motorbooks International. ISBN 07-60-31414-4.

coe.int (Global: 772^nd place; English: 849^th place)

hudoc.echr.coe.int

"Case of McCann and Others v. The United Kingdom". 27 September 1995.

dailystar.co.uk (Global: 6,463^rd place; English: 6,790^th place)

SAS Snipers to get world best rifle, Daily Star, August 2014

eliteukforces.info (Global: low place; English: low place)

Special Air Service (SAS) – Gambia Hostage Rescue, eliteukforces, retrieved 8 October 2013
Operation Tango – The SAS Arrest War Criminals, eliteukforces.info, retrieved 8 October 2013
Operation Ensue – The SAS Arrest Stevan Todorovic, eliteukforces.info, retrieved 8 October 2013
British Special Forces – Gulf War 2

forces.net (Global: 7,113^th place; English: 4,411^th place)

"British SAS Soldier Killed By Friendly Fire Not Roadside Bomb, Investigation Finds". forces.net. 27 July 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2022.

go.com (Global: 48^th place; English: 39^th place)

abcnews.go.com

"DEA: Heroin Haul Largest Ever in Afghanistan, 'if Not the World'". ABC news. 15 December 2016.

independent.co.uk (Global: 36^th place; English: 33^rd place)

"UK and US spend millions to counter Yemeni threat". The Independent. 30 October 2010.
"SAS in Iraq given 'kill list' of 200 British jihadis to take out". The Independent. 6 November 2016.
"UK special forces' operations in Libya confirmed by leaked briefing". the independent. 25 March 2016.

leeds.ac.uk (Global: 5,235^th place; English: 3,879^th place)

"McCann and others v United Kingdom". UK Law. Archived from the original on 24 March 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2010.

mod.uk (Global: 836^th place; English: 553^rd place)

raf.mod.uk

"A history of the 1982 conflict". Ministry of Defence. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
"Actions, losses and movements on land and sea 21 May to 11 June 1982". Ministry of Defence. Archived from the original on 16 November 2007. Retrieved 4 April 2010.

msn.com (Global: 117^th place; English: 145^th place)

"SAS in battle to stop Taliban overrunning Sangin". The Telegraph. 22 December 2015.

nato.int (Global: 940^th place; English: 907^th place)

"NATO's role in Kosovo". Nato.int. 10 June 2010. Archived from the original on 11 June 2010. Retrieved 13 June 2010. Today, just under 10,000 troops from the NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR), provided by 31 countries (24 NATO and 7 non-NATO), are still deployed in Kosovo to help maintain a safe and secure environment.

parliament.uk (Global: 367^th place; English: 243^rd place)

hansard.parliament.uk

"Hansard Shootings (Gibraltar) Volume 129: debated on Monday 7 March 1988". Hansard.

rand.org (Global: 2,921^st place; English: 2,118^th place)

"Coalition scud hunting in Iraq 1991" (PDF). Rand Organisation. Retrieved 5 April 2010.

sandline.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Jennings, Christian. "Special forces quitting to cash in on Iraq". The Scotsman. Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 9 March 2010.

telegraph.co.uk (Global: 30^th place; English: 24^th place)

"Obituary, Commander Michael St John". The Daily Telegraph. London. 22 March 2009. Retrieved 17 March 2010.
"Obituary – Major Alastair McGregor". The Daily Telegraph. London. 3 October 2002. Retrieved 19 March 2010.
"SAS 'Blue Thunder' helicopter team called in after London attack". The Telegraph. 4 June 2017.
Rayment, Sean (11 April 2010). "SAS reservists withdrawn from Afghan front line". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
Sherwiel, Philip; Blair, David (11 September 2000). "Paras free hostages in jungle". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
Smith, Michael (12 September 2000). "Soldier killed in jungle rescue was SAS man". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
"How the Marines found Operation Snipe could not fly". The Telegraph. 17 May 2002.
Rayment, Sean (28 December 2003). "Overstretched SAS calls up part-time troops for Afghanistan". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
Harding, Thomas (31 October 2008). "SAS Chief Quits Over 'Negligence That Killed His Troops'". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
"British couple captured in Afghanistan 'were planning attacks in UK'". The Telegraph. 21 July 2011.
"SAS to remain in Afghanistan to target al-Qaeda". the Telegraph. 14 November 2014. Archived from the original on 15 November 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
SAS joins Kashmir hunt for bin Laden, The Daily Telegraph, 23 February 2002
Harnden, Toby (23 March 2010). "Gen Stanley McChrystal pays tribute to courage of British special forces". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
Rayment, Sean (30 August 2008). "Gen Stanley McChrystal pays tribute to courage of British special forces". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
"Cargo bomb plot: SAS hunting al-Qaeda in Yemen". The Telegraph. 2 November 2010.
"Britain withdraws special forces from Yemen as civil war rages on". The Telegraph. 23 March 2015.
"More British troops set for Iraq training". The Telegraph. 12 October 2014.
"British special forces join fighters on Isil front line". The Telegraph. 30 September 2014.
"SAS 'took part in Abu Sayyaf Isil raid in Syria'". The Telegraph. 9 August 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2015.

theaustralian.com.au (Global: 965^th place; English: 579^th place)

Dodd, Mark (14 May 2008). "Brits buy our army vehicles". The Australian newspaper. Retrieved 13 August 2016.

thegazette.co.uk (Global: 200^th place; English: 141^st place)

"Supplement to the London Gazette" (PDF). The London Gazette. 14 December 1965. p. 11676.
"No. 48346". The London Gazette (Supplement). 20 October 1980. p. 14608.
"No. 49134". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 October 1982. p. 12845.

theguardian.com (Global: 12^th place; English: 11^th place)

"British special forces member killed in Afghanistan". The Guardian. 2 July 2010.
"'British Taliban' arrested in Afghanistan". The Guardian. 21 July 2011.
"US troops land on Iraq's Mt Sinjar to plan for Yazidi evacuation". The Guardian. 13 August 2014.
"Kurdish forces vow no retreat until Nineveh plains are retaken from Isis". The Guardian. 20 October 2016.
"SAS soldier was killed by friendly fire, inquiry finds". theguardian.com. 27 July 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
"SAS deployed in Libya since start of year, says leaked memo". The Guardian. 25 March 2016.
Chulov, Martin (7 March 2011). "SAS and MI6 officers released by Libya's rebel commanders". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 January 2021.

thetimes.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"John Woodhouse". The Times. 21 February 2008. Archived from the original on 2 November 2024. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
Brown, David (20 June 2008). "Three SAS reservists 'made the ultimate sacrifice' in Afghanistan". The Times. Retrieved 10 January 2021.

timesonline.co.uk (Global: 241^st place; English: 193^rd place)

Naughton, Philippe; Costello, Miles (6 June 2006). "Obituary: Major Roy Farran". The Times. London. Archived from the original on 31 May 2010. Retrieved 31 March 2010.
Smith, Michael (7 August 2005). "Special forces turn sights from Iraq to hunt terrorists in Britain". The Times. London. Retrieved 3 April 2010. {{cite news}}: |archive-url= is malformed: timestamp (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
Smith, Michael (7 March 2010). "SAS in Afghanistan suffers worst losses for 60 years". The Times. London. Archived from the original on 4 July 2011. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
Meo, Nick; Evans, Michael; McGrory, Daniel (25 March 2006). "Army's top general attacks Kember for failing to thank SAS rescue team". The Times. London. Retrieved 22 March 2010. {{cite news}}: |archive-url= is malformed: timestamp (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)

Jennings, Christian. "Special forces quitting to cash in on Iraq". The Scotsman. Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
Naughton, Philippe; Costello, Miles (6 June 2006). "Obituary: Major Roy Farran". The Times. London. Archived from the original on 31 May 2010. Retrieved 31 March 2010.
"McCann and others v United Kingdom". UK Law. Archived from the original on 24 March 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2010.
"Actions, losses and movements on land and sea 21 May to 11 June 1982". Ministry of Defence. Archived from the original on 16 November 2007. Retrieved 4 April 2010.
"NATO's role in Kosovo". Nato.int. 10 June 2010. Archived from the original on 11 June 2010. Retrieved 13 June 2010. Today, just under 10,000 troops from the NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR), provided by 31 countries (24 NATO and 7 non-NATO), are still deployed in Kosovo to help maintain a safe and secure environment.
Smith, Michael (7 March 2010). "SAS in Afghanistan suffers worst losses for 60 years". The Times. London. Archived from the original on 4 July 2011. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
"SAS to remain in Afghanistan to target al-Qaeda". the Telegraph. 14 November 2014. Archived from the original on 15 November 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2015.

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Macintyre 2016, p. Chapter 8. Macintyre, Ben (2016). Rogue heroes : the history of the SAS, Britain's secret special forces unit that sabotaged the Nazis and changed the nature of war (1st ed.). New York. ISBN 9781101904169. OCLC 934676482.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Eckert, Nicholas (1999). Fatal encounter. Dublin: Poolbeg. ISBN 1-85371-837-8. OCLC 42002421.
Bolton 1990. Bolton, Roger (1990). Death on the rock : and other stories. London: WH Allen/Optomen. ISBN 1-85227-163-9. OCLC 28065215.

History of the Special Air Service (English Wikipedia)

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