S1 Ep4: Operation Certain Death, Part 1

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🗓️ 12 June 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The West African nation of Sierra Leone is a land of picturesque white beaches, a tropical climate and rich, lush rainforests. But the country is no tourist destination – it is the battle ground for one of the most gruesome and deadly civil wars in history. This is the real story of one of the most dangerous special forces missions in history: Operation Certain Death. As told by the people who were there. But who are the SAS? What unique conditions made this operation so dangerous? Covert's theme is "Anxiety" by Kai Engel (kai-engel.com). Music in this episode is “Floret”, “Anxiety”, “Comatose” and “Nothing (Bonus Track)” by Kai Engel (kai-engel.com); “Confused Sate”, “expeditionary” and Tikopia” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com/); “Förlåt” by Ars Sonor ((http://frequency-alcyone.deviantart.com/)); “The Last Ones” by Jazzer and “Stories About the World That Once Was” by Chris Zabriskie (chriszabriskie.com/). Sound effects from freesound.org by ermfilm, harrybates01, bruce965, cosmicembers and leoctiurs. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This episode is sponsored by Female Criminals podcast by Parcast.

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0:00.0	British Army Major Alan Marshall feels the cold metal barrel of an AK-47 assault rifle
0:07.0	nestled into the back of his head. He looks up at the man holding the gun, African
0:14.9	militia leader Fodec Halle. Surrounding him are the West Side boys, a 2,000
0:22.0	strong gang of heavily armed rebel fighters who live deep inside the jungles of
0:27.4	Sierra Leone, West Africa. Calle tells Marshall that he's guilty of spying, a crime
0:34.2	punishable by death, and in five seconds he will be executed. They have this
0:39.8	child, what makes the grass grow, and the kids have to chill back. Blood, blood, blood,
0:46.4	what makes the grass grow, blood, blood, blood, then the West Side Boys begin
0:52.1	to count down. Five, four, three, two, but what Calle doesn't know is that a few
1:01.0	hundred feet away are four SAS fighters and at soon all hell is going to break loose.
1:07.0	But why is a British Major being held hostage, 5,000 miles from home, in Sierra
1:14.6	Leone's heart of darkness? Welcome to Covert, a show about the shadowy world of
1:21.3	international espionage and top secret military operations. I'm Jamie Rennell, and I'm
1:27.4	going to take you inside history's greatest special forces missions to learn about the
1:31.8	brave soldiers who risk their lives to terminate the world's most wanted men, eliminate
1:37.0	terrorist threats, and protect countless innocent lives. The author against us totally, I mean,
1:43.6	we flew into their village, into their backyard, the two of the biggest helicopters in the
1:47.9	world. You know what I mean? And by rights, I mean, if they'd have been switched on, they
1:52.7	should have smashed those choppers straight out of the sky. I would have been lucky to get
1:55.1	anybody in there. You know, so as it was, it couldn't pan out that way. We couldn't get to them.
2:00.1	We couldn't do it that way. So you know, we had to go in and get my bloody nose.
2:03.7	As told by the people who were there.
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