he would also see much of the war's brutality during his deployment with the elite 3 squadron sas.efinitely a buzz of elitism, 'cause it is the best thing you could do for your career, to go to that unit, especially when you're a lower rank and you're actually gonna get to do a lotta hands-on stuff. you definitely feel confident with these guys. i never once felt like i was going out and i was unprotected. i never felt like i--we weren't gonna get through it. mark: it was braden chapman's job to find taliban targets by intercepting and tracking their communications. braden: if we were going out on a mission where we were chasing a mobile phone target, then i would be with either myself, or the other signals intelligence operator. we'd be with the teams, and we'd be going in close and tracking that phone. often, when they hear the helicopters coming in, they would actually turn their mobiles phonesff. mark: within days of deploying with the sas in afghanistan, braden chapman got a sense of what was to come during a conversation with one of the squadron's senior soldiers. braden: i w

special forces soldiers from 2 squadron sas were going from village to village searching for him.about what happened. 2 squadron swept into the village of sola looking for hekmatullah. there they focused on the local mosque. rafiullah was just eight or nine years old at the time. he was inside the mosque praying with his father, the imam haji raz mohammad. [speaking foreign language] rafiullah: when my father finished his prayer, they kicked him in the head while he was trying to stand up. his turban fell down, and they stood him up. they tore his turban up into pieces and tied up the hands of the other people in the mosque. they beat me up, and they said, "why are you standing here? what did he give you?" i said, "he didn't give me anything." they beat me up very badly and told me, "go home. why are you standing here?" mark: throughout the vilge men were rounded up by the australians. juma jan: when they came to the mosque they arrested us, including the mullah. he was handcuffed and blindfolded. noorullah: they were standing behind us. we were not allowed to talk. there was an i