(Telegraph-UK) - In the faint pre-dawn light, Specialist James Ross, 23, saw a car, its headlights on, accelerate towards his guard tower. The vehicle had already barrelled over a coil of barbed wire 80 yards away and was heading straight down a corridor of crash barriers. "I knew it wasn't one of our guys - it was either me or him," said Ross, who began firing his machine-gun in a last-ditch attempt to stop the car entering the compound, where 300 soldiers were just waking. Ross fired almost 100 rounds before the car came to a stop and blew up.
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