“DEATH ON THE ROCK” Operation Flavius – British SAS wipe Out IRA Terrorist Cell – Gibraltar 1988

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Above : Three IRA members shot dead in Gibraltar 6 March 1988

On a quiet Sunday afternoon in Gibraltar, the SAS shot dead three members of the Provisional IRA who were planning to bomb a military parade on the peninsula. They were unarmed. ‘Operation Flavius’ attracted much controversy, including allegations of a ‘shoot-to-kill’ policy. It began a period of 14 days that was to prove one the darkest of Northern Ireland’s Troubles. Photo: IRA members fire a volley of shots for three comrades killed in Gibraltar

DEATH ON THE ROCK

HERE IS A BRIEF INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTARY AND INFORMATIVE INSIGHT INTO THE STILL, SO CLAIMED, CONTROVERSIAL SAS EXECUTIONS OF THREE  SUSPECTED IRA TERRORISTS DURING OPERATION FLAVIUS IN GIBRALTAR 1988 

A SUBJECT MATTER THAT IS FEATURED HERE AT LITTLEDEAN JAIL WITHIN OUR “TERRORISM AND COUNTER TERRORISM EXHIBITION “

Operation Flavius was the name given to an operation by a Special Air Service (SAS) team in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988 tasked to prevent a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb attack. The IRA Active Service Unit‘s (ASU) members, Danny McCann, Seán Savage and Mairéad Farrell, conspired to detonate a car bomb where a military band assembled for the weekly changing of the guard at the governor’s residence. Although the operation was meant to be an arrest operation,^[ it ended with all three members of the ASU dead.

BELOW ARE SOME VINTAGE AND HISTORIC NEWS FOOTAGE VIDEOS RELATING TO THE SAS EXECUTIONS OF THE THREE SUSPECTED IRA TERRORISTS

Below are some images taken in Gibraltar following the murders of IRA volunteers Mairead Farrell, Danny McCann and Sean Savage by the SAS during Operation Flavius. and  alleged SAS hitmen

 

 

ABOVE AND BELOW : SO-SAY, MEDIA CLAIMED SAS HITMEN WALKING AWAY FROM THE EXECUTION SCENE ????

Below is a picture of Michael Stone (loyalist) attacking mourners at the funeral of  IRA volunteers Mairead Farrell, Danny McCann and Sean Savage at Milltown Cemetery  in 1988

BELOW IS VIDEO FOOTAGE OF MICHAEL STONE’S ATTACK ON THE MOURNERS AT THE IRA FUNERAL OF THE THREE SUSPECTED IRA TERRORIST EXECUTED BY THE BRITISH SAS

 

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COMING SOON …. THE UNTOLD STORY OF BERT ROSSI ,WHO IS TODAY , AT THE GRAND OLD AGE OF 92 , THE UK’S  OLDEST LIVING GANGSTER

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HERE BELOW IS A RECENT (AUGUST 2015 ) , VERY BRIEF INSIGHT VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH THE NOW 92 YEAR OLD FORMER LONDON MAFIA BOSS AND MENTOR TO THE KRAY TWINS

HERE BELOW ARE A FEW VINTAGE IMAGES OF BERT ROSSI WITH VARIOUS FACES FROM THE PAST

BERT ROSSI AGED 92

BERT ROSSI

BERT ROSSI

On a recent visit to the Bookies

Alex Steene-Jersey Joe Walcott

Bert and Big Albert Dimes

Bert Rossi ,billy Hill , Ruby Sparks and Frank Fraser

Bert with picture

Bert , Albert and Lord and lady Docker

Bert , Billy Hill and Lady Docker

Krays boxing -pose -1953

Willie Pep

Bert “Battle ” Rossi aged 92 , July 2015

Andy Jones of the Crime Through Time Collection with Bert “Battle” Rossi at a recent get together