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SAS: Sierra Leone – Deliver A Blow The True SAS Story of Operation Barras

Andy Pacino
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While the ten-year long the bloody civil war of Sierra Leone raged throughout the 1990s and early 2000, the United Nations sent a peacekeeping force to try and stem the bloodshed caused by the vicious rebel-faction death squads that were terrorising and murdering the innocent civilian population indiscriminately. As far as the rebel factions were concerned, everyone who was old enough to carry a gun was a target, an enemy or a potential rebel soldier who could join them.
A particularly dangerous and blood-thirsty outfit calling themselves the West Side Boys operated out of the Occra Hills and had control of the surrounding areas. In the past they had captured, raped, tortured and murdered a number of peace-keeping forces, journalists and religious missionaries.
In September of 2000, they went a step too far: they captured a British Army patrol and held them captive in one of their jungle camps. While the hostages were beaten and both psychologically and physically tortured on a daily basis, they lived in the very real fear of being killed at any moment. Britain’s Prime Minister, Tony Blair – possibly insulted by the rebels’ actions – sent in the UK’s Special Forces version of “Magic Dust” to make the problem go away. The SAS were deployed and tasked with two objectives; firstly to rescue the British hostages, and then to “Deliver a blow!” to the West Side Boys. As far as the Special Forces soldiers were concerned, this meant only one thing: kill every single one of the rebel soldiers. Kill them all.
Operation Barras has gone down in the Regiment’s history as the UKSF’s most daring ever raid, and research for this book involved interviewing British forces who were on the ground throughout training and on the day of the assault, ex RUF rebels and Sierra Leone Army soldiers.
Andy Pacino is an ex-journalist who now works out of Dubai. As well as writing he lectures in academic excellence and education management, having taught at a number of universities in the Far and Middle East. His work has taken him all over the world and his expertise stretches from football – Manchester United in particular – to art, poetry and creative writing. He has also produced a number of art documentaries and an independent feature film.
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SAS: Sierra Leone – Deliver A Blow The True SAS Story of Operation Barras

Andy Pacino
4.12/5 (254 ratings)
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While the ten-year long the bloody civil war of Sierra Leone raged throughout the 1990s and early 2000, the United Nations sent a peacekeeping force to try and stem the bloodshed caused by the vicious rebel-faction death squads that were terrorising and murdering the innocent civilian population indiscriminately. As far as the rebel factions were concerned, everyone who was old enough to carry a gun was a target, an enemy or a potential rebel soldier who could join them.
A particularly dangerous and blood-thirsty outfit calling themselves the West Side Boys operated out of the Occra Hills and had control of the surrounding areas. In the past they had captured, raped, tortured and murdered a number of peace-keeping forces, journalists and religious missionaries.
In September of 2000, they went a step too far: they captured a British Army patrol and held them captive in one of their jungle camps. While the hostages were beaten and both psychologically and physically tortured on a daily basis, they lived in the very real fear of being killed at any moment. Britain’s Prime Minister, Tony Blair – possibly insulted by the rebels’ actions – sent in the UK’s Special Forces version of “Magic Dust” to make the problem go away. The SAS were deployed and tasked with two objectives; firstly to rescue the British hostages, and then to “Deliver a blow!” to the West Side Boys. As far as the Special Forces soldiers were concerned, this meant only one thing: kill every single one of the rebel soldiers. Kill them all.
Operation Barras has gone down in the Regiment’s history as the UKSF’s most daring ever raid, and research for this book involved interviewing British forces who were on the ground throughout training and on the day of the assault, ex RUF rebels and Sierra Leone Army soldiers.
Andy Pacino is an ex-journalist who now works out of Dubai. As well as writing he lectures in academic excellence and education management, having taught at a number of universities in the Far and Middle East. His work has taken him all over the world and his expertise stretches from football – Manchester United in particular – to art, poetry and creative writing. He has also produced a number of art documentaries and an independent feature film.
Format:
Kindle Edition
Pages:
343 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
2
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
ISBN13:
kindle Asin:
B072PWG9DQ

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