Situation Critical: SAS Jungle Rescue

Operation Barras was the name given to a hostage rescue operation by the British Special Air Service and Parachute Regiment in Sierra Leone on 10 September 2000. Eleven members of the British Army's Royal Irish Regiment led by Major Alan Marshall and their Sierra Leone Army liaison officer, Lieutenant Mousa Bangura were held hostage by an armed rebel group known as the West Side Boys led by Foday Kallay on August 25, 2000. This is the story of the rescue operation mounted after the British Army feared that remaining troops will be executed by unstable West Side Boys.

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