UDA feud (sort of)

cerebus

Hi,

I've got a quick question, sort of tangentially related to the feud between UDA C Company and the rest of the organization.

I was reading through some stuff on ireland.com today and came across a reference to Andre Shoukri in the report on the funeral of Robert Carson. He's a member of the UDA inner council, it seems - here's a quote:

ireland.com said
...four remaining members of the UDA inner council, Jim Gray (East Belfast), Billy McFarlane (North Antrim and Derry), Jackie McDonald (South Belfast) and Andre Shoukri (North Belfast).

I was wondering does anyone have any background info on this guy? He is known as "the Egyptian", seemingly - and with a name like Shoukri he doesn't appear to fit into the stereotypical UDA member profile...

I have to admit I'm intrigued by the little bit I have been able to find out about him. Anyone got any information on where he comes from and how he fits into the whole UDA thing? Might be quite an interesting story.

TIA for any replies.

Victor

A quick visit to www.google.com will result in 137 links, even his address :eek:

http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Andre+Shoukri+&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

cerebus

Thanks for that - unfortunately, I had already googled "Andre Shoukri", so I was hoping for some deeper background information.

(Actually, I did discover his middle name is Khaled while parsing your google results, so I guess that was something )

Thanks again.