Operation Barras was a British military operation on 10 September 2000 that rescued six Royal Irish Regiment soldiers and their Sierra Leone Army liaison officer held captive by the West Side Boys militia. Special Air Service and Special Boat Service troops assaulted the militia's base at Gberi Bana while the Parachute Regiment launched a diversionary attack on Magbeni; all captives were freed along with about 21 Sierra Leonean civilians, at the cost of one British soldier killed. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Operation TypeSpecial-forces hostage rescue 1 LocationGberi Bana and Magbeni, Occra Hills, Sierra Leone 1 ParticipantsD Squadron 22 Special Air Service, C Squadron Special Boat Service, 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps and RAF helicopters 1 ObjectiveRescue six Royal Irish Regiment soldiers and their Sierra Leone Army liaison officer held by the West Side Boys militia 1 OutcomeAll captives were freed; at least 25 West Side Boys militia were killed and 18 captured; one British soldier, Trooper Bradley Tinnion, was killed 1 Operation Type
Operation Type (category) Operation Type (category)Special-Forces Operation 1 Connections
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Operation Barras, the 2000 hostage rescue in Sierra Leone, was carried out by British Army paratroopers with SAS support
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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 Sierra Leone Civil War.
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Operation Barras restored confidence in the British forces, prompting military historian William Fowler to call the operation "a necessarily spectacular endorsement of the rule of law and the elected government of Sierra Leone". The British media struck a celebratory note at the success of Operation Barras, but some suggested that Marshall had erred in diverting the patrol off the main road to visit the West Side Boys.
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