Episode 2 Heroes and Villains

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Two SAS operations, eight years apart, produced radically different legacies. The first made the regiment national heroes. The second sparked decades of controversy. In 1980, the world watched as the SAS stormed the Iranian Embassy in London to free its hostages. The daring assault brought the secretive regiment into the public eye – but what did that exposure cost? Eight years later, an SAS operation against suspected IRA bombers in Gibraltar ended with three people dead and questions that…