The Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR), 14int/SRR, SAS and army involvement

On 4 August 2005, The Guardian reported that the Special Reconnaissance Regiment were involved in the surveillance operation that led to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. The Whitehall sources who provided the story stressed that the SRR were involved only in intelligence-gathering, and that Mr Menezes was shot by armed police, not by members of the SRR or other soldiers.

Defence sources refused to comment on speculation that SRR soldiers were among the plain-clothes officers who followed Mr Menezes on to the bus to Stockwell tube station.

WHAT IS THE SPECIAL RECONNAISANCE REGIMENT
Quoting from the Ministry of Defence Press Release on the creation of the Special Reconnaisance Regiment:

The new Regiment has been formed to meet a growing worldwide demand for special reconnaissance capability - as announced in the Strategic Defence Review New Chapter in July 2004.

The Regiment will ensure improved support to international expeditionary operations at a time when it is most needed in the ongoing fight against international terrorism. Special reconnaissance covers a wide range of specialist skills and activities related to covert surveillance.

The SRR will draw personnel from existing capabilities and recruit new volunteers from serving members of the Armed Forces where necessary. Due to the specialist nature of the unit it will come under the command of Director Special Forces and be a part of the UK Special Forces group.

In a Written Ministerial Statement to the House of Commons, Mr Hoon said:

The SRR logo is attached to this post and the explanation of their logo is as follows:

How terribly friendly.

The version of events that emerged with the leaked IPCC documents seems to suggest a method of execution that is out of step with the Kratos guidelines which refer to 'a critical shot' being fired and also totally in keeping with the modus operandi of certain 'elite' military organisations.

If de Menezes was shot by the SRR, what use is the IPCC investigation?

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An article by Mark Townsend (yet again)

Observer 5/2/06

They used to be known officially as 14th (Int) Company, in the 'good old days', recruited from all of the armed forces, once in a while in SRO's you'd get 'job' adverts, this one simply read:

FROM TIME TO TIME, THERE IS A REQUIREMENT FOR MEN AND WOMEN TO VOLUNTEER TO UNDERTAKE SPECIAL DUTIES OF A HAZARDOUS NATURE IN NORTHERN IRELAND. THE SELECTION AND TRAINING FOR SPECIAL DUTIES ARE BOTH RIGOUROUS AND ARDUOUS. FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE DCI **/**/** OR ASK THE CHIEF CLERK.

They were formed in the seventies for intelligence gathering etc., after several incidents with Army units who'd formed their own intel units, somewhat over stepped the mark and carried out routine 'lifts and interrogation' sessions for personal enjoyment. And these 'rougue' units were causing severe embarresment and often casualties due to retaliation by the IRA and to a lesser degree INLA, generally not helping the cause of the 'hearts and minds' campaign that was already lost with the catholic comunity, whom the Brithish Army had been sent in to protect in the first place.

14 Int, or the Det as it was known, replaced all of these individual intel gathering bafoons, and were a very brave bunch of men and women without a doubt, and I don't use that lightly. (Hardknocks, even go as far as nutters...)

The training course was long, hard, and often broke people, there was no room for weak links, even the SAS weren't exempt from duty on the Det, and they had it twice as hard, if they failed the Det course, they were back to the normal green machine, not back to Hereford. A big fall. Mind you it didn't stop them from nick naming those on the Det 'Walters', as in Walter Mitty.

Those who did tours on the Det put their lives on the line every day. They even lost their Identity. And some, unfortunatley, paid the ultimate price, just to keep us in mainland Britain, and the civilians of both sides in the province safe.
They were the unseen soldiers, sailors, and airmen/ women, whose story is kept quiet.

Personally, with defence cut's etc, and the down sizing of forces in the province, I thought they'd have been on the heap, where so many others have gone.

Mind you I for one can't say that I'm entirely happy having them operate on the mainland, but I suppose they're one of those necessities, that should help you sleep safer at night.

For godsake don't run from them.........I think you know what I'm on about......
Stop, Stand Still, Hands on Head, try not to move and hope for the best!

God bless the MOD, another regiment of nutters!

de Menezes didn't run from them, did he?

The forces all hit the streets immediately July 7th happened, army in Convent Garden, police hammering down doors all over town, the SRR, the whole city, and other parts of the country, was off the rails in the days and weeks that followed. Recall the Birmingham city centre evacuation on the basis of a 'credible', but non-existent, threat.

The mobilisation was lightning quick. So quick in fact, news of special forces' presence on the streets was breaking before the apparent cause of the explosions had changed from the original power surge story.

From the Daily Mirror, two days after July 7th, a tale of dumped bags and escaped perpetrators of whom lots of CCTV was said to exist:

How many 'days, or even weeks' after July 7th was de Menezes executed?

I know someone who used to be in the army and still has a lot of contacts. I obviously can't substanciate any of this but he told me that the killer was SAS. He was talking about the need for Marshall Law to be instigated before any soldier can be involved on the UK streets...

aside from being alarming, nothing i have read here appears anything less than utterly plausible, imho, take it all as fact, but as you'll know, this is just the tip of the iceberg, there'll be more to it than revealed

i'd be surprised if there isn't some secret dictat allowing military forces types to be 'deputised' under secret orders

now, this would be great if those in command had righteous aims, i'm not convinced that those in command are on the side they're supposed to be

most alarming thing is that these boys and girls on the ground utterly buy into the notion that being bad in the name of good, is meritous, honourable, and that's what makes them so dangerous, just about anyone can be put on a list, for any reason, in fact, probably 60-70% of the u.k. population have something on record somewhere (covertly aquired, naturally) that makes them 'a danger to q&c'...the only barrier to action is bad press, and even that is no barrier today, as we all know, press reportage is effectively deceased

take my attempt at irony "krieg macht frei", this is a comment on how "arbeit macht frei" wasn't strictly true, and neither of course is "krieg...", but you can bet it is spinnable as 'revolutionary incitement'

this won't be news to you...but, i 'heard it on the grapevine' that certain "licence to kill" types regularly do 'innactive ops' out here in the public domain, there's a long history (like as long as the military's existence) of practicisng the 'art of mingling', by which i mean special ops cells, just like you hear about the 'bad guys' doing, there have been many cells living as neighbours, or hidden altogether in various military and civvie 'theatres', i heard about this one op where 'they' spent a week living on the roof of a building in a u.s. airforce base somewhere in the u.k., and this was one of the 'military soil' ops i'm happy to mention, it doesn't stop there, and it knows no borders, and these folks only let you see so many layers of the onion...so when you hear of one 'hydra' head, you can bet another appeared somewhere else

it's analogous to the lockheed blackbird recon aircraft, the only reason why that was outed, and 'retired', is that aurora is very real, and pootling about up there at mach 5 wherever emperor bush says he wants it

the claimed leaks, are usually simply psyops in themselves, it's a bit like finding a cockroach and asking him how many there are, he'll tell you "millions", which is true, but also false, yet actually, not that far from the truth...confused ? scared ? good !

*all this is ill informed gossipy hearsay and supposition, i read it on the back of my cornflakes packet...for the record