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....

Barras may refer to: Barras, Cumbria, England Barras, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France Barras, Piauí, Brazil Duas Barras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Sete Barras...

forces launched a mission codenamed Operation Barras, freeing the remaining six. The success of Operation Barras restored confidence in the British mission;...

subsequently destroyed in an operation by the Special Air Service and Parachute Regiment in September 2000 during Operation Barras. The group was influenced...

Battalion, Parachute Regiment carried out a hostage rescue operation, code named Operation Barras. The objective was to rescue five members of 1st Battalion...

Director Special Forces from 1999 to 2001, which included command of Operation Barras in September 2000. Holmes was commissioned into the Scots Guards in...

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...

for veterans. Operation Certain Death: The Inside Story of the SAS's Greatest Battle (Century, 2004) - The account of Operation Barras, the attempt by...

single-handedly. He also provided fire support for British troops during Operation Barras. Ellis' private military career under Sandline led him to deployment...

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...

Peruvian Army operation. Sierra Leone Civil War Operation Palliser, May 2000, deployment of British forces in Sierra Leone. Operation Barras, 10 September...

recognition of an act or acts of conspicuous gallantry during active operations against the enemy". All ranks of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, British...

Service (SBS) squadrons assaulted the al-Qaeda cave complex. During Operation Barras in Sierra Leone, soldiers from 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment...

the SBS, integrated with the SAS, were involved in Operation Barras, a hostage rescue operation in Sierra Leone that successfully rescued five captured...

in numerous operations: the Falklands War (1982); Operation Granby (1991); Operation Engadine (1999); Operation Barras (2000); Operation Herrick (2002–2014);...

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...

Palmas kidnappings Palawan, Philippines 27 May 2001 Varied periods Operation Barras Sierra Leone 10 October 2000 17 days Bus 174 hostage crisis Rio de...

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...

Observer, where he facilitated Operation Barras in September 2000. He was an operations officer for ECOMOG Operations in Liberia. As a staff officer,...

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...

# Title Disaster Hour 1 "SAS Mission Impossible" Operation Barras 10 September 2000 06:00 – 07:00 On 10 September 2000, the West Side Boys held members...

on Operation Khukri. The film will have Shah Rukh Khan, Ayushmann Khurrana, and Rajkummar Rao in lead roles. Operation Barras, similar operation to rescue...

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...

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...

Mi-24 Hind and providing air support for British forces executing Operation Barras. He has founded his own paramilitary company, Jesa Air West Africa...

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...

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...

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...

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...

were used in Sierra Leone to rescue several British soldiers during Operation Barras. In 2002, a Lynx attached to HMS Richmond crashed 200 miles off the...