![]() ![]() The next day a goat-herd came across the two survivors. ![]() During the night one of the men was to disappear in a blinding blizzard. Nothing had prepared them for the vicious cold of the desert winter, and they began to suffer from hypothermia. Chris Ryan found himself left with two companions. Their aim was to reach the Syrian border, 120 kilometres to the north-west, but during the first night the patrol accidentally broke into two groups, five and three. ![]() A fierce fire-fight left the eight men miraculously unscathed, but they were forced to run for their lives. Late on the evening of 24 January 1991 the patrol was compromised deep behind enemy lines in Iraq. Of the eight members of the SAS regiment who set off, only one escaped capture. The SAS mission conducted behind Iraqi lines is one of the most famous stories of courage and survival in modern warfare. ![]()
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