The SAS secretly tracked down and killed two members of a gang who murdered six British military policemen in Iraq, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
At the time, the deaths of the Red Caps in June 2003, weeks after Saddam Hussein was toppled, was the largest loss of UK life to enemy forces in the Iraq war.
For 23 years it was thought the killers fled across the border into Iran to escape justice. But in a remarkable development, SAS sources have revealed in a new book that they located a pair of the Iranian-backed gang members involved and killed them.
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