{"id":142288,"date":"2021-10-20T11:04:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T11:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=142288"},"modified":"2021-10-20T11:04:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T11:04:12","slug":"sas-legend-andy-mcnab-was-forced-to-eat-his-own-poo-after-being-captured-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/sas-legend-andy-mcnab-was-forced-to-eat-his-own-poo-after-being-captured-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"SAS legend Andy McNab was forced to eat his own poo after being captured in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SAS veteran Andy McNab has recalled some of the most bizarre tactics his Iraqi interrogators used after he was captured during his ill-fated Bravo Two Zero mission \u2013 including having to eat his own faeces.<\/p>\n

During the 1991 Gulf War, McNab's Bravo Two Zero team famously got caught in a firefight with Iraqi forces before seeking refuge at a safe embassy.<\/p>\n

Three of the eight members of the group were killed, four, including McNab, were captured. They were held, and often tortured, for six weeks before finally being released.<\/p>\n

McNab has previously spoken to Daily Star about his time in captivity, claiming that the \u201cunknown\u201d of being captured was the most terrifying aspect of his ill-fated mission.<\/p>\n

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Now, appearing on the \u2018Stories of Special Forces Operators\u2019 podcast, the former soldier went into further detail about the tactics employed by his interrogators after the mission went fatefully wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cThree of us were put into an interrogation centre and we had just over two weeks of interrogations,\u201d he explained. <\/p>\n

\u201cEventually we were moved to Abu Ghraib. There, there wasn\u2019t any intentional torture. <\/p>\n

\u201cObviously in the interrogation centre, we were whipped and burnt, and I had back teeth that were smashed when I got caught. <\/p>\n

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\u201cWe call it tactical questioning, you basically just get beaten up when you\u2019re caught.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Andy explained that typical interrogation tactics were abandoned when he was moved to infamous detention centre Abu Ghraib. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere was none of that going on in Abu Ghraib, but by now the war had started," he continued. "The bombing started at last light, finished at first light. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Iraqis are taking hits, their families are getting killed, so they were taking out frustrations. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhether they\u2019d come in to beat you up, or sing a load of songs from Queen. <\/p>\n

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\u201cThere was a Queen fan, he\u2019d go, \u2018I\u2019ll sing you a load of songs from Queen\u2019, and I\u2019d go, \u2018yeah alright\u2019. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then at one stage I had to eat my own faeces, because it was a joke. But when I was a Green Jacket, I\u2019d done it for a bet on a pint of lager, during an exercise in Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eventually, after six weeks under capture, Andy was released through a trade with the International Red Cross. <\/p>\n

The former SAS soldier has since detailed his experiences in best-selling novel, \u2018Bravo Two Zero\u2019, which has been adapted into a film starring Sean Bean. <\/p>\n

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