SAS ambush and kill a 3 man IRA East Tyrone active service unit, 3rd June 1991
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- The coagh ambush was a military confrontation that took place in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, on 3 June 1991, during The Troubles, when a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) active service unit from its East Tyrone Brigade was ambushed by the British Army's Special Air Service (SAS) at the village of Coagh, in County Tyrone, whilst on its way to kill a part-time member of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR). The ambush resulted in the deaths of all three IRA men involved.
At 7.30 am on 3 June 1991, three Tyrone IRA paramilitaries - Tony Doris (21 years old), Michael "Pete" Ryan (37) (on the run at the time from the Royal Ulster Constabulary since 1981 after escaping from imprisonment in Belfast for terrorist related offences) and Lawrence McNally (39) - drove a stolen Vauxhall Cavalier from Moneymore, County Londonderry to the village of Coagh,[21] crossing the border of counties Londonderry and Tyrone, to kill a part-time Ulster Defence Regiment soldier, who was in his civilian life a contractor that worked with the security forces.Their intent, however, was known to the British security forces, having been revealed by either a Crown agent within the IRA itself, or from covert technical surveillance. In consequence a detachment from the British Army's Special Air Service was lying in wait for Doris, Ryan and McNally on both sides of Coagh's main street, and also in a red Bedford lorry at the scene
Big boys games, big boys rules...
Think we can all agree that when the SAS are on a ambush, there's not going to be much left of you to bury.
Well done fellas
SAS should have been given carte blanche to wipe them all out.
Agreed 100%...
absolutely
Masonboyne@ They were by Margaret Thatcher, but the Americans intervened, and she backed down.
They tried and failed to do so, a couple of SAS also got killed in that period such as Captain Herbert Westmacott
What a result that day
Look at Glennane the weekend before 3 soldiers dead 19 injured some seriously
When the sas was involved the ira always got put underground.
Sorry but if it was the other way around, the IRA never gave their victims a chance in survival or surrendering . Including innocent women children. You live by the sword well you die by the sword.
Oooooh, there’s a mess on the floor.
We had the same shoot to kill policy as the IRA had when it came to them killing our soldiers, they didn't like it when we started using their tactics on them
It was PIRA propaganda... through & through... shoot to kill was obviously used by the PIRA for recruitment... any volunteers who joined the Provo's were well aware of all the consequences involved... prison or death... there's no secret or story to be told here...
If the Ira were terrorists because of their shoot to kill policy, would that not make British forces the same ?
@@caolanlee1992 I said that the PIRA used shoot to kill as propaganda for recruitment & it worked point i made was that all Volunteers who became members of the Provo's knew & were fully aware of their fate as a result of joining prison or death so how could they legitimately make a shoot to kill claim my comment was removed...
@@caolanlee1992 No
IRA were illegal, the SAS were a legal government organisation , thats a war crime what the SAS did weather you like it or not
Fred Scappaticci. Credit where credit is due
Why does England insist on keeping Northern Ireland?
Because most people in Northern Ireland want to stay in the uk. Once that changes…
It’s not England you muppet.
If only they'd listened to the big fella
Hopefully they survived long enough before getting crispy
Bit like the young paras in Warrenpoint then also.
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@@dmfub2348naw how is your mates at warrenpoint
Do you feel the same way about the Omagh bombing?
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Tragic when service men loose their lives leave behind wives young children a waste of human life.
Walloped
They where going too kill an uncle of mine that morning
Aye. 😂
And nearly killed a niece of mine. Both her and the family had to sell the farm and move to Omagh. I believe your Uncle also had to move home.
If the IRA men were shot dead in the Cavalier as it drove into the village and crashed and burned then how did the balaclava end up in the middle of the road?
Obviously one of the men got out of the car and legged it then the SAS shot him dead and dragged his body back to the burning car.
Total cover up!
Definitely
@@starryian007that must have been some throw. Watch the news footage again and tell me how that is physically possible.
The balaclava is way beyond the path that the Cavalier took if we are to believe that.
@@starryian007 so when you say they knew they were spotted. That’s very doubtful. The SAS or SBS who ambushed them are not going to let themselves be spotted before firing are they?
Do you think the IRA men wouldn't have shot their intended victims in the back if they were running away ?
I will answer it for you , Yes they would
The UK is supossed to uphold the rule of law, the IRA unit had been under surveillance for some time, they could have been aprehended without bloodshed in the days leading up to the ambush. To be fair to the SAS they could only deal with the problem in front of them, and a court found as much but the senior security services knew, Thatcher wanted an example.
The great christian Ian Paisley.
If you shoot, you intend to kill. Hit the target.
Goes for both sides
yeah its one of them ones
What do u call a jacket on fire
A blazer
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Remeber warrenpoint
@@Ulaidhirish Remember!! Simpleton 😁
@@ForeverEngland76 remeber rineen
@@Ulaidhirish Are you 5 ? Your spelling is abysmal
You lost Irish dog
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Ireland forever