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Arrest over Capt. Nairac killing

  • 21-05-2008 12:42pm
    #1
    DublinDes
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    Police investigating the murder of SAS officer Robert Nairac over 30 years ago today arrested a suspect. The 57-year-old man was arrested in south Armagh and taken to the serious crime suite in Antrim for questioning after being arrested by the PSNI's crime operations serious crime branch early this morning. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6769697.stm

    Imagine a brit walking into a pub in South Armagh, saying he's a member of the IRA, asking the locals about how he could cross the border without being spotted by the security forces, then getting up to sing a rebel song, all the while trying to hide his posh accent.....that's the legendary SAS for you :D.


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  • #2
    cushtac
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    Nairac wasn't SAS, he was attached to 14 Intelligence Company at the time of his death.


  • #3
    MacBuster
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    Even if this man is charged, he would be out within a matter of months if not weeks as it would be covered under the good friday agreement and it was technically in time of "War".. I could be wrong but what exactly will it achieve now..


  • #4
    segaBOY
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    With the current situation of a power sharing executive up and running there is no point on arresting anyone for this IMO


  • #5
    eroo
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    cushtac wrote: »
    Nairac wasn't SAS, he was attached to 14 Intelligence Company at the time of his death.

    THANK YOU Cushtac!Everyone thinks he was SAS!


  • #6
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Stupidest thread in this forum - 2008.


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  • #7
    meathstevie
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    Casualty of war. Full stop, end of story.


  • #8
    eroo
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    meathstevie wrote: »
    Casualty of war. Full stop, end of story.

    War??A couple of louts beat him up and put him in a car.Then brought him to a field,beat him senseless and tried to fool him into confessing by one of the louts dressing up as a Catholic priest(Nairac was Catholic),then they unceremoniously shot him.It wasn't even sanctioned by local PIRA gangsters.


  • #9
    skooterblue
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    cushtac wrote: »
    Nairac wasn't SAS, he was attached to 14 Intelligence Company at the time of his death.

    People from the SAS served in the 14th Intelligence company. He had entered another country with out declaring himself to be military personnel. I think that strips you of your rights under the geneva convention, (i.e. a spy). Once you get involved with Paramilitaries, Special Forces, whatever the rule book completly changes.


  • #10
    cushtac
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    skooterblue wrote: »
    People from the SAS served in the 14th Intelligence company.

    He wasn't one of them, he was originally in the Grenadier Guards before going to 14 Intelligence Company.
    skooterblue wrote: »
    He had entered another country with out declaring himself to be military personnel. I think that strips you of your rights under the geneva convention, (i.e. a spy). Once you get involved with Paramilitaries, Special Forces, whatever the rule book completly changes.

    Since there was no state of war between Ireland & the UK, the Geneva Convention doesn't come into it. Even if it did, torture & murder isn't permitted by it.


  • #11
    meathstevie
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    Ok, casualty of conflict so. Technically speaking there was never a war in Ireland since none of the conflicts that have taken place in Ireland in modern history conformed to the notion of a war as in international law.


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  • #12
    blade796
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    cushtac wrote: »
    He wasn't one of them, he was originally in the Grenadier Guards before going to 14 Intelligence Company.



    Since there was no state of war between Ireland & the UK, the Geneva Convention doesn't come into it. Even if it did, torture & murder isn't permitted by it.



    He was actully the liason IO between SAS Ulster troop and SB,14Int (JCUNI) was a broad church.


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