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"Already two years before the Gladio exposures in 1990 the BBC unveiled clandestine cooperation between the British and the American Special Forces to the larger public and in a documentary entitled the 'The Unleashing of Evil' revealed how SAS British Special Forces and US Green Berets had used torture against prisoners over the past 30 years in every major campaign from Kenya to Northern Ireland, Oman, Vietnam, Yemen, Cyprus and other countries...Slippery indeed was of course the sensitive deployment of SAS units to Northern Ireland where Irish republicans considered the SAS as nothing less than terrorists. 'A very strong case can be made', critics argued, 'that even from a British point of View, the SAS were part of the Problem in Northern Ireland rather than part of the solution'. " (Ganser, Daniele: NATO'S SECRET ARMIES. p. 44) "Training...included non-simulated real action operations against IRA activists, probably in Northern Ireland." sst, p. 45.
100905, Breaking News IOL. Regeringen er under pres fra oppositionen for at undersøge om terroristmistænkte transporteres via Shannon Lufthavn på amerikanske militærfly (Rendition).
281105, New Statesman. Irland har apartheid (mellem katolikker og protestanter) og freden har kun gjort det værre.
Dublin Easter Rising of 1916. Robert Fisk er i tvivl om sin vurdering af den episode i The Independent, 160406. Pearse and Connolly and McBride m.fl. blev henrettet.
Monde Diplomatique, juillet 2006, p. 6 - 7. Cédric Gouverneur: Ségrégation en Irlande du Nord. Beskriver situationen som en slags apartheid.
Historie (hentet i Monde Diplomatique, juillet 2006):
1918 Sinn Fein vinder valgene og uafhængighedskrigen begynder
1921 Irland deles
1972 "Bloody Sunday". 12 katolske demonstranter dræbes i Londonderry af den engelske hær.
1994 IRA erklærer våbenhvile, efterfulgt af de unionistiske paramilitære. London accepterer at åbne forhandlinger.
100498. En fredsaftale underskrives
280705, IRA bekendtgør afslutningen af den væbnede kamp og vil fremover arbejde for genforening ad demokratisk vej
190306, The Times, MI5 'helped IRA buy bomb parts in US' "A FORMER British Army mole in the IRA has claimed that MI5 arranged a weapons-buying trip to America in which he obtained detonators, later used by terrorists to murder soldiers and police officers. In a book to be published next month, the spy, who uses the pseudonym Kevin Fulton, describes in detail how British intelligence co-operated with FBI. Fulton siger, han gav forhånds advarsel om Omagh bomben.
241106 De 2 store partier Sinn Fein og UDP skal have truffet en aftale om dannelse af en delvis selvstyrende regering.
100906, Observer Henry McDonald, UK agents 'did have role in IRA bomb atrocities'. "The controversy over claims that Britain allowed two IRA informers to organise 'human bomb' attacks intensified this weekend. A human rights watchdog has handed a report to the Police Service of Northern Ireland, which concludes that two British agents were central to the bombings of three army border installations in 1990. Meanwhile the Police Ombudsman's Office in Belfast confirmed it is investigating allegations by the family of one victim that the bomb in Newry on 24 October 1990 could have been prevented...British Irish Rights Watch said: This month BIRW sent a confidential report to the Historical Enquiries Team on the three incidents that occurred on 24th October 1990... at least two security force agents were involved in these bombings, and allegations have been made that the "human bomb" strategy was the brainchild of British intelligence... cases of collusion between loyalist terrorists and the security forces. These include the Pat Finucane murder and the killing of Raymond McCord Jr bi the Ulster Volunteer Force. In both cases, British Irish Rights Watch claim many of the loyalists involved in these murders were agents for the security forces - illegations that were later substantiated...Speaking from a secret location in Europe this weekend, Ingram (not his real name) said that while the latest report was not decisive proof over his claims about 'J1118', it raised questions about the role of informers in the 'human bomb' killings."
230107, Guardian, This exposes Britain not as peacemaker, but perpetrator. Northern Ireland's police ombudsman, Nuala O'Loan er en modig pige. Hun har rapporteret en undersøgelse af Raymond McCord's død i Mount Vernon, i den nordlige del af Belfast. Hun fastslår - ganske naturligt - at chefen for en politistyrke har ansvaret for at hvad den politistyrke foretager sig, uanset hvad han vidste besked om. I 1987 begyndte de loyalistiske (dem, der ville forblive under England) paramilitære at tænke på våbenhvile. Derefter genbevæbnede og forstærkede England dem og hjalp dem til et nyt fokus og forlængede på den måde krigen.
270107, Sunday Herald, How Britain created Ulster's murder gangs. UVF blev trænet og udstyret af den britiske hær gennem efterretningsorganisationerne Force Research Unit og Military Reconnaisance Force.
170307, Guardian, Ronan Bennett, In a British fairyland. The portrayal of Sinn Féin as a reluctant partner in peace is a fiction that did not fool the Irish voters. "The peace process pre-dated the advent of Tony Blair to power by almost a decade. It does not detract from Blair's commitment to a settlement to recall that in 1988 Gerry Adams and John Hume, the former leader of the nationalist SDLP, began a series of private talks in an attempt to agree a joint strategy to take the gun out of Irish politics.
When the so-called Hume-Adams document was delivered in June 1992, it was greeted not as a promising avenue but with hostility. Hume, who went on to become a joint winner of the Nobel peace prize, reacted with hurt incomprehension. A man of Gandhian commitment to nonviolence, he was accused of being everything from an IRA stooge to an outright villain. Unionists reviled him, and his British allies in the Labour party deserted him...When the IRA declared a "complete cessation of military operations" on August 31, 1994 the response was no less hostile. Adams in particular came in for vicious and sustained criticism, including on these pages...The elections last week saw Sinn Féin register its largest vote since partition. The lesson Mandelson and those who nod so approvingly at his interview have still to learn is that the party's success is an acknowledgment by voters that the republican leadership drove the peace process."
110807, Socialist Worker 2063, The inside story of British death squads in Northern Ireland. "But in reality the occupation of Northern Ireland was brutal, repressive and murderous. Far from keeping "warring tribes" apart, military intelligence recruited, trained and armed Loyalist murder gangs in Northern Ireland, ordering them to carry out a series of assassinations...From the late 1970s onwards, both Labour and Tory governments backed the Force Research Unit which supplied names, addresses and photographs of targets to paramilitaries. During this time the FRU vorked alongside the Special Branch of Northern Ireland's police force. In the 1980s, the FRU was led by Colonel Gordon Kerr. He now heads British intelligence in Iraq....In January this year the Northern Ireland police ombudsman's report concluded that one UVF unit in the Mount Veraon area of north Belfast was run by Northern Ireland Special Branch. That unit canried out up to 16 murders. "
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