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What happened next was a two-hour running firefight between the eight SAS troopers and an estimated 200 heavily armed Iraqi soldiers. Then a young Shepard boy discovered the patrol hiding in a gully and immediately alerted the Iraqi soldiers to their presence. It was decided to leave the area at last light and as per a prearranged plan head to a helicopter pick up point, get a new radio and then carry on with the To make matters worse, their radio wasn‘t working. They found a position to observe the MSR and the buried fibre optic cables, but at dawn discovered that their OP (observation post) was close to a large concentration of Iraqi soldiers that they‘d not seen or heard during the night. Almost from the beginning things began to go wrong. McNab decided to have his patrol inserted at night by helicopter close to the MSR (main supply route) west of Baghdad and Tab or march to a position where they could observe the route. The radio call sign for the patrol was Bravo Two Zero. His was obviously not the only patrol sent out, and they had a secondary mission to locate and destroy any SCUD launchers they came across. Once the cables were destroyed the launchers could not be used and the threat to Israel and the coalition would cease. McNab was tasked to lead an eight-man patrol into Iraq to locate and destroy a fibre optic cable that was being used to transmit firing data from Baghdad to the mobile Scud sites in western Iraq. The mission of locating and finding them went to the various Special Forces units in Saudi Arabia including the SAS. Finding and stopping the highly mobile SCUD launchers was less so. Should that happen it was more than likely that the coalition of mainly Arab states would collapse, and with it the upcoming ground campaign, something that had probably occurred to Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi high command.ĭealing with the static Scud missile bases was fairly easy for the coalition air forces. Should these attacks continue it became evident that Israel would retaliate and enter the war against Iraq. Prior to the launching of the ground war to liberate Kuwait, the Coalition forces became worried about the Iraqi use of Scud missiles fired at Israel. McNab collaborated on the screenplay and acted as an advisor to the filmmakers.
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The movie Bravo Two Zero was produced well before the controversy of what may or may or not happened in Northern Iraq in January 1991, and is a faithful adaptation of the book. In Ryan‘s account, which naturally shows him in a favourable light, McNab is portrayed not a calm cool leader under fire, but more so as a bumbling idiot whose carelessness and failures caused both the missions failure, but the loss of three comrades lives.Ī more recent book by Michal Asher also another former SAS member, has called into question many aspects of both McNab‘s and Ryan's accounts, especially suggesting they exaggerate their own acts of heroism and the numbers of Iraqi soldiers they both fought and killed. One written by another survivor, Chris Ryan places the blame for what went wrong squarely at McNab‘s feet. At least two other books to date have been written about the patrol that call into question what actually happened. In recent years there have been a many questions raised as to the accuracy of McNab's account of events. Soon after the war, and the publication of his best selling memoirs McNabb left the British Army became a writer of action adventure novels. Both the book and movie recount McNab‘s version of events during the First Gulf War in 1991. Cut off, and unable to communicate with their HQ, surrounded by literally hundreds of enemy soldiers their actions over a couple of days would go down in the annals of modern warfare.īravo Two Zero is the movie adaptation of the book of the same name by Andy McNabb, a former Sergeant in the 22nd Special Air Service (SAS), and commander of the patrol. In January 1991, a patrol of eight British Special Forces soldiers found themselves hundreds of miles behind enemy lines in Northern Iraq.