Strabane ambush | |||||||
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Part of the Troubles and Operation Banner | |||||||
![]() Near the ambush site | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
![]() IRA West Tyrone Brigade | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Charles Breslin † | Unknown | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
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Casualties and losses | |||||||
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Ambush at Strabane |
The Strabane Ambush was a British Special Air Service ambush against a three man Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit. All three members of the IRA unit were killed in the ambush. At the time it was the most successful SAS operation against the IRA, until the Loughgall ambush two years later in 1987 in which eight IRA volunteers were killed.[1]
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