Operation Flavius

But it also created an illusion that such clarity would always exist, even in the shadows.

[gentle music] Within a decade, the reputation of the SAS was to take a very public knock on Operation Flavius in Gibraltar.

On March the 6th, 1988, three IRA operators were planning to set off a bomb beside a British Army band in the sleepy British outpost next to Spain.

They were shot dead by an SAS team before they got the chance.