Coburn told the judge that the patrol was compromised early in its mission. Coburn, aged 36, who served with the New Zealand SAS before joining its elite British counterpart, is fighting attempts by the British Ministry of Defence to stop publication of his account of the disastrous mission in his book, Soldier 5. In dramatic evidence, Coburn laid blame for the deaths of three comrades-in-arms squarely at the door of the SAS regimental hierarchy. Instead of being rescued, the men were later told they were lucky not to be court-martialled, Coburn told Justice Peter Salmon in the High Court at Auckland yesterday. Members of the ill-fated Bravo Two Zero mission behind Iraqi lines during the 1991 Gulf War were betrayed by a military high command which considered them expendable, says New Zealand commando Mike Coburn.
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