Terrorists in Aden

Terrorists in Aden; ADEN: Crater: (Q: Well how big do you think the numbers of terrorists are?) It's jolly difficult you know to estimatye how many they are, and if I was making an estimate I would say that of the hard core professional type chap operating against us - there might be 20. I don't believe that the chaps who throw the grenades at us from street corners every now and again are possibly in the same class. (Q: What sort of hold, do you think, they have over the local population this small ....?) Oh it's absolute, it's absolute. I mean we've made the most tremendous efforts, my 2nd in Command, whose an Arabic speaker and they spend a lot of time talking to the locals. We call it, as we used to in Borneo, hearts and minds. (Q: Would you expect in the next few weeks that Crater is going to go on with just a few incidents or that it could blow up here?) This is the most marvellous leading question and requires a very positive answer. I don't beleive that - I mean it depends how much they're prepared to sling in against us, I mean, it's just like war, I mean if they sling in more remains that you are standing still on the top of a roof of the Chartered Bank in Crater 5 weeks after we took it, you know, and there's quite a lot of dead terrorists too that have taken place in the last 5 months. NEG & DUPE: 16mm: ITN(Collings)/Library: 2.13mins: 83ft: 9.8.67/NAT: Also Mag Track: Library material kept here: 48489/633NAT/1/67
Terrorists in Aden; ADEN: Crater: (Q: Well how big do you think the numbers of terrorists are?) It's jolly difficult you know to estimatye how many they are, and if I was making an estimate I would say that of the hard core professional type chap operating against us - there might be 20. I don't believe that the chaps who throw the grenades at us from street corners every now and again are possibly in the same class. (Q: What sort of hold, do you think, they have over the local population this small ....?) Oh it's absolute, it's absolute. I mean we've made the most tremendous efforts, my 2nd in Command, whose an Arabic speaker and they spend a lot of time talking to the locals. We call it, as we used to in Borneo, hearts and minds. (Q: Would you expect in the next few weeks that Crater is going to go on with just a few incidents or that it could blow up here?) This is the most marvellous leading question and requires a very positive answer. I don't beleive that - I mean it depends how much they're prepared to sling in against us, I mean, it's just like war, I mean if they sling in more remains that you are standing still on the top of a roof of the Chartered Bank in Crater 5 weeks after we took it, you know, and there's quite a lot of dead terrorists too that have taken place in the last 5 months. NEG & DUPE: 16mm: ITN(Collings)/Library: 2.13mins: 83ft: 9.8.67/NAT: Also Mag Track: Library material kept here: 48489/633NAT/1/67
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