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09-20-2009, 02:47 PM
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But like you said Zulu, we don't really have that GSG-9 paramilitary, Gendarmerie that most other countries use. I guess the need has not arisen yet. I suppose the UK uses SAS guys for hostage rescues internally so I suppose the US would use Delta-Force.
I think the UK has somethng similar to the Posse Comitatus Act which prevents the executive branch of government from deploying uniformed troops within the UK's borders for military operations-other-than-training, but similar to the US, they don't have a paramilitary gendarmerie like China, Spain, Russia, Germany, or France. For domestic counterterrorism and hostage resce, the UK used to use SO13 (a SWAT-type special police unit seconded to the London Metropolitan Police). During The Troubles in Northern Ireland, the primary anti-terrorist unit in use against the Provisional IRA was the controversial (and now-disbanded) Royal Ulster Constabulary's Special Patrol Group (members of which were accused and convicted of carrying out revenge-motivated sniper and IED attacks against prominent Catholic civilians in Northern Ireland).
The current London Metropolitan Police anti-terrorism agency, SO15, frequently cross-trains with the SAS, though.
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