 Under Israeli pressure to send its own SOF teams into western Iraq and the realization that British SAS were already hunting SCUDs, US Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney proposed using US SR teams as well as SAS.The senior British officer of the Coalition, Peter de la Billière was himself a former SAS commander and well-disposed to use SAS.While Schwarzkopf was known to generally oppose SOF, Cheney approved the use of US SOF to hunt for the launchers.