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‘I lay in a pool of blood after being shot at point blank range while undercover in Northern Ireland’
Shot through the stomach and stranded in the Northern Irish countryside with no backup, Blue* was the lucky one. Now, the former undercover operative tells Sam Kiley about what went wrong, how he survived, and the pressure of making split-second decisions

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‘I lay in a pool of blood after being shot at point blank range while undercover in Northern Ireland’
Shot through the stomach and stranded in the Northern Irish countryside with no backup, Blue* was the lucky one. Now, the former undercover operative tells Sam Kiley about what went wrong, how he survived, and the pressure of making split-second decisions

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Inside the Coagh IRA ambush, one of the most controversial SAS killings in Northern Ireland
The former SAS major responsible for planning one of the most controversial lethal clashes of the Troubles tells Sam Kiley how his men had less than two seconds to decide whether to open fire on an IRA unit preparing an assassination

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Inside the Coagh IRA ambush, one of the most controversial SAS killings in Northern Ireland
The former SAS major responsible for planning one of the most controversial lethal clashes of the Troubles tells Sam Kiley how his men had less than two seconds to decide whether to open fire on an IRA unit preparing an assassination

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