"I sometimes feel closer to the SAS than anyone else, " he once told me in private.
One member of the SAS was killed, but all the hostages made it out alive.
As the SAS fiasco entered the public domain, another crisis emerged for Mr Hague.
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Special forces, such as the SAS, operated throughout the Troubles, but left after the 1997 IRA ceasefire.
Stansted happens to be where the SAS regularly trains, which is why hijacked craft are often diverted there.
The Sunday Times suggested that the SAS team was a four-man unit which entered Afghanistan possibly via Tajikistan.
With elements of the SAS, the brigade is currently involved in Exercise Saif Sareea ("Swift Sword") in Oman.
The SAS was started during the Second World War, to carry out missions behind German lines in north Africa.
And by then the soldier's personal mission had resulted in something unique - a diary of the SAS in WWII.
The SAS is perhaps best known for storming the Iranian embassy in London in 1980, after terrorists had killed a hostage.
They interrupted the news programs at that time to bring pictures of the SAS scaling down the outside of the building.
Besides, I would be moving on to a new watch soon, if I were to properly keep up with the SAS Joneses.
The fashion within the SAS had just done a 180-degree style turnaround.
However, the SAS's preferred site, next to the Melrose bypass and at the entrance to the BGH, was thrown out by councillors.
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It wasn't long before TAG Heuers lost their pride of place on the wrists of the SAS, and the Rolex Submariner took over.
Big Brother Watch said every penny raised that was not spent on Sgt Nightingale's legal fees would go to the SAS Regimental Association.
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The union said the current rest period policy, brought in under the SAS's Agenda for Change, was unfair and had affected staff morale.
The SAS proposals envisaged a building to the north of the hospital between the Melrose bypass and the roadway leading into the hospital itself.
Afghanistan may be landlocked, but the Marines' own elite unit, the Special Boat Service, who often train and exercise alongside the SAS, could also be deployed.
An anglophile and a member of the American special forces, he visited the headquarters of the SAS in Hereford and often praised its way of doing things.
Recently the STA had a storage technology showcase to spread the word about what was happening with the SAS specification and its relations to other storage interfaces.
Having missed the last three majors, Karlsson played the pro-am before the SAS Masters in Sweden a month ago, but was still suffering problems with his depth perception.
There were to be many more SAS operations in the war against Hitler and later, the SAS saw action in several counter-insurgency operations, in Oman, Aden, Malaya and Borneo.
The following month, in April 1988, the media found itself at loggerheads with the British government over the killing of the three IRA members by the SAS in Gibraltar.
The SaS has balked at Slovakia - one of the poorest countries in the eurozone - being asked to guarantee 7.7bn euros of the 440bn European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF).
The defendant told people he had had a career in the armed services, including the SAS, but the prosecution said military records showed any army career was "a lie, a fantasy".
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Recollections of the SAS invasion strategy were graphically illustrated over the tea table with the cups and saucers, sugar bowl, milk jug and teapot used as landmarks to describe the scene.
Of course the answer to that was simple: they had all the analysis, they told us who these people were, why they did it, even told us who the SAS were.
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