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The Special Night Squads (SNS) was a joint British–Jewish counter-insurgency military unit, established by Captain Orde Wingate in Mandatory Palestine in 1938 during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt. The SNS consisted of British infantry soldiers, together with some men drawn from the Jewish Supernumerary Police. Total unit strength was 100 by 1938. Wingate selected his men personally, among them Yigal Allon and Moshe Dayan, and trained them to form small mobile striking units. Wingate also collaborated with the Jewish paramilitary formation, the Haganah, reinforcing his unit with some of Haganah's Fosh commandos.
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A British-Jewish counter-insurgency unit that trained future Israeli commanders Yigal Allon and Moshe Dayan while fighting Arab attacks on the Iraq Petroleum Company pipeline during the 1936-1939 Arab revolt. Through 2010 the opening said the unit's success "brought a decline in terrorist activity in the area." Today the opening says nothing about terrorist activity at all, though the word survives three times in the body. A reader arriving now learns the unit fought a revolt and not that Wikipedia once called the pipeline attackers terrorists.
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