Stephen Davis, author of a new book, Operation Trojan Horse, says he has interviewed members of that team anonymously, as well as those involved in planning the mission. He believes the mission involved deploying a team of special forces surveillance operatives to feedback intelligence. He also believes the UK authorities did not expect the airport to fall to invading Iraqi forces as quickly as it did. Instead the expectation was that the men would have been able to disembark and the plane continue to its next destination.
