Britain meanwhile pinned great hope on a top-level interdiction force, trained by its elite Special Air Service.

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At the wheel is a former British Special Air Service soldier, squiring three clipboard-toting engineers from Bechtel Group.

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It wasn't until I joined Special Forces, the British Special Air Service, that my watch fetish really took hold.

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At long last, having joined the Special Air Service in 1944, he got the chance to go on a special mission, if still not a secret one.

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London-based Olive Security provides former British Special Air Service troops--one unarmed guard for every four or so engineers who go out on a job--to drive and offer a show of muscle.

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Significantly, elite troops of Australia's Special Air Service Regiment, understood to have infiltrated into East Timor in advance of Interfet's arrival in Dili Sept. 20, have already linked up with Falintil's Ruak in his mountain base.

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