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    Operation Barras was a British Army operation that took place in Sierra Leone on 10 September 2000, during the late stages of the nation's civil war....
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  • forces launched a mission codenamed Operation Barras, freeing the remaining six. The success of Operation Barras restored confidence in the British mission;...
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  • subsequently destroyed in an operation by the Special Air Service and Parachute Regiment in September 2000 during Operation Barras. The group was influenced...
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  • Director Special Forces from 1999 to 2001, which included command of Operation Barras in September 2000. Holmes was commissioned into the Scots Guards in...
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  • Battalion, Parachute Regiment carried out a hostage rescue operation, code named Operation Barras. The objective was to rescue five members of 1st Battalion...
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    commissioned into the Royal Air Force on 4 July 1985. After taking part in Operation Barras in September 2000 and subsequently in the War in Afghanistan, he became...
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    single-handedly. He also provided fire support for British troops during Operation Barras. Ellis' private military career under Sandline led him to deployment...
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    Observer, where he facilitated Operation Barras in September 2000. He was an operations officer for ECOMOG Operations in Liberia. As a staff officer,...
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    Marshall in Zero Hour a TV dramatisation of Special Air Service mission operation Barras in Sierra Leone. The next year he appeared in three episodes of the...
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  • Peruvian Army operation. Sierra Leone Civil War Operation Palliser, May 2000, deployment of British forces in Sierra Leone. Operation Barras, 10 September...
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    by Guy Ritchie. Operation Certain Death: The Inside Story of the SAS's Greatest Battle (Century, 2004) - The account of Operation Barras, the attempt by...
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    Freetown. Neall Ellis also piloted a Mi-24 during the British-led Operation Barras against West Side Boys. Guinea also used its Mi-24s against the RUF...
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  • successfully during the Sierra Leonean Civil War in 2000 including Operation Barras, and Operation Telic IV in the Persian Gulf from February–August 2005. Ships...
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    the SBS, integrated with the SAS, were involved in Operation Barras, a hostage rescue operation in Sierra Leone that successfully rescued five captured...
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    Service (SBS) squadrons assaulted the al-Qaeda cave complex. During Operation Barras in Sierra Leone, soldiers from 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment...
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    recognition of an act or acts of conspicuous gallantry during active operations against the enemy". All ranks of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, British...
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  • Palmas kidnappings Palawan, Philippines 27 May 2001 Varied periods Operation Barras Sierra Leone 10 October 2000 17 days Bus 174 hostage crisis Rio de...
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    Bravo Two Zero mission. In Sierra Leone it took part in Operation Barras, a hostage rescue operation, to extract members of the Royal Irish Regiment. Following...
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    in numerous operations: the Falklands War (1982); Operation Granby (1991); Operation Engadine (1999); Operation Barras (2000); Operation Herrick (2002–2014);...
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    clasp was awarded, although personnel who took part in Operation Maidenly or Operation Barras were entitled to add a silver rosette to their award. The...
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  • No. in season Title Disaster Hour 1 "SAS Mission Impossible" Operation Barras 10 September 2000 06:00 – 07:00 On 10 September 2000, the West Side Boys...
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    Fowler, Will (10 Apr 2010). Certain Death in Sierra Leone: The SAS and Operation Barras 2000. Raid 10. Osprey Publishing. p. 51. ISBN 9781846038501. "7.62mm...
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    was not known and Blair was assumed to be behind it. Blair ordered Operation Barras, a highly successful SAS/Parachute Regiment strike to rescue hostages...
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  • Fowler, Will (10 Apr 2010). Certain Death in Sierra Leone: The SAS and Operation Barras 2000. Raid 10. Osprey Publishing. pp. 24–25. ISBN 9781846038501. Government...
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  • of the Koya chiefdom within the district. The village was part of Operation Barras, a rescue mission involving the British Army and the West Side Boys...
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  • Barra is a name for an engine range created by Ford Australia, including the inline-6 and unrelated SOHC V8 in the Ford Australia Falcon between 2002...
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    commissioned into the Parachute Regiment in 1983. He took part in Operation Barras in Sierra Leone in September 2000 for which he was awarded the Military...
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  • Khan, Ayushmann Khurrana, and Rajkummar Rao in lead roles. Operation Barras, similar operation to rescue British soldiers "Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone"...
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    officer. In 2000 he was deployed to Sierra Leone in the aftermath of Operation Barras to help the army learn the lessons of the kidnap of a group of troops...
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    to the release of six of the men. The remainder were rescued during Operation Barras by a combined team from A Company of the 1st Battalion and the SAS...
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