To be sure, the rally held two blocks from the World Trade Center was not a decisive defeat of the enemy like that dealt by the storied British "Desert Rats" to Hitler's Afrika Korps in November 1942.

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Unorthodox from the start, the SAS was conceived as a commando force to operate behind enemy lines in North Africa, where the British were fighting Field Marshall Rommel's highly-skilled Afrika Korps.

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It quoted Afrika Khumalo, the crime intelligence chief commissioner in the country's Gauteng province, as saying that surveillance cameras, visual and tape recordings and undercover policemen were used to track down the suspects.

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