On April 30, 1980 six armed men stormed the Iranian embassy in London. They took 26 embassy staff and visitors hostage. A six-day siege followed.
The cover of"The Siege" and author Ben Macintyre. . The book tells the story of the six-day siege following the storming of the Iranian embassy in London by six gunman.At 19:30, on Wednesday, April 30, 1980, a small, secret, and exceptionally well-equipped army rolled out of Bradbury Lines, the Special Air Service camp at Hereford.
Each man had a green carryall packed with his personal weapons and gear: a submachine gun with four 30-round magazines, a 9mm automatic pistol with two 12-round magazines, a respirator, gloves, a balaclava helmet, body armor, boots, a belt, and a weapons-cleaning kit. In addition, each soldier had a prepacked long-stay bag with toiletries, sneakers, a tracksuit, and a sleeping bag.
To say that Police Constable 469K, Trevor James Lock, was “guarding” the Iranian Embassy implies rather more focus and energy than the task demanded. Lock was an officer of the Diplomatic Protection Group, the Metropolitan Police unit responsible for security at the 138 foreign embassies and high commissions dotted around London. Most of these premises did not need protection. The DPG was largely diplomatic decoration, symbolizing Britain’s duty to safeguard foreign dignitaries.
Born into a working-class East London family, Lock had spent most of his life in the borough of Barking, where he knew every road . During National Service with the army, he volunteered for deployment to Tripoli, in the mistaken belief that it was in Italy. In Libya, he learned how to handle firearms, and how to swear in Arabic. After a stint in the Ford Dagenham factory, he joined the police at the age of twenty-six.
At 11:18, the Iranian doorman Abbas Fallahi popped his head around the front door and offered Lock a cup of coffee. According to police regulations, a DPG officer should not be seen eating or drinking while on duty, and Lock was not supposed to leave his post on the front step. Besides, Fallahi’s Persian-style coffee, strong, black, and sweet, was “a cup of yuk” in his opinion.
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