How Britian created Ulster's murder gangs (Herald Scotland).

PatricaMcKay

http://www.heraldscotland.com/how-britain-created-ulster-s-murder-gangs-1.834481

Make of it what you will...Not exactly a Republican or left wing source.

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How Britain created Ulster's murder gangs

Neil Mackay
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27 Jan 2007
Since the Sunday Herald was founded in 1999, it has led the way in exposing the �dirty war� in Northern Ireland. Today, we report on the most shocking revelations to date. Our investigations show that far from merely �turning� terrorists to work for the state, British military intelligency actually created loyalist murder gangs to operate as proxy assassins. They even cleared areas in which the gangs were operating of police and army, to allow them to carry out their hits and escape.
ON Monday, the world was stunned by the release of a report by Nuala O'Loan, the police ombudsman for Northern Ireland, which stated that Special Branch officers in Belfast had "colluded" with loyalist terrorists working for the British state as informers. According to O'Loan, police failed to stop these paramilitary gangs, part of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) from killing an estimated 15 people in the 1990s. While this was seized upon by republicans as proof that security forces had aided a loyalist campaign of sectarian assassination, in reality O'Loan's findings barely scratched the surface of a 30-year history of criminality and murder orchestrated by the British army and the Ulster police.
HE INSISTS on being named only as "JB", a sick, ageing man, who fears that ill-health or a bullet from an assassin wishing to silence him will claim his life before he has the chance to tell the true story of his life and crimes. On Wednesday, JB passed a bundle of papers to the Sunday Herald, making up the bulk of his unpublished memoirs, which paint British military intelligence as a callous, murderous, criminal cabal. JB claims that he - and dozens of other members of the terrorist organisation, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) - were trained and armed by military intelligence.
He also claims select UVF officers were ordered by military intelligence to carry out assassinations against both IRA figures and ordinary Catholics. Such soft targets as innocent men and women were pinpointed by military intelligence in order to psychologically undermine the nationalist population of Northern Ireland and cut the support base from beneath the Provisional IRA."

Johnboy1951

Date on article is 27 Jan 2007 ........ published 17 Jun 2011 ..... I wonder why ....... any ideas?

Nodin

It is four years old, thats just todays date at the top.

Scofflaw

Four year old article, no OP opinion, thoroughly contentious material...could someone just be stirring?

moderately,
Scofflaw