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	Force Research Unit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Force Research Unit is a covert military intelligence organization established by the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence under the British Army's Special Intelligence Wing (SIW).
		FRU members are alleged to have colluded with loyalist murder squads in the deaths of at least 14 Catholics in Northern Ireland between 1987 and 1991.
		The officer commanding FRU at the time was Lt Colonel Gordon Kerr, who was since promoted to Brigadier and moved to the post of military attache to Beijing during the Stevens inquiry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Force_Research_Unit (372 words)

	Read about Force at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Force and learn about Force here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Force is not a fundamental quantity in physics, despite the tendency to introduce students to physics via this concept.
		As with the kilogram, the pound is colloquially used as both a unit of mass and a unit of force.
		This might occasionally be an attempt to disintinguish kilograms as units of mass from the "kgf" symbol for the units of force.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Force_(physics) (1495 words)

	British Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The British Expeditionary Force, organized by Richard Burdon Haldane, was sent to France at the beginning of World War I. During the war, the Tank Corps and the Royal Flying Corps were formed.
		British forces were part of the spearhead group that initiated actions in Afghanistan that was implemented in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001.
		In the aftermath of the invasion British forces remain in the capital Kabul as a protection force for the new government as part of a NATO multi-national force.
	hallencyclopedia.com /British_Army (2070 words)

	Anti-Colonial Agitator: 07/01/2004 - 07/31/2004
		The new findings led the researchers to propose a new theory of the basis of autism, called underconnectivity theory, which holds that autism is a system-wide brain disorder that limits the coordination and integration among brain areas.
		Previous research looking at whether the causes of short-sightedness (myopia) were genetic or environmental had found inherited factors accounted for 89%, and the environment 11%.
		Previous research had shown that larger brains are weakly related to higher IQ, but this study is the first to demonstrate that gray matter in specific regions in the brain is more related to IQ than is overall size.
	diarmidlogan.blogspot.com /2004_07_01_diarmidlogan_archive.html (2244 words)

	HMG Military Intelligence Aided Irish Murders
		The role of Kerr and the FRU in the dirty war is not a story that the British government nor establishment want to be revealed.
		Kerr's FRU has been the subject of a long-running and top secret inquiry by Sir John Stevens, Scotland Yard Commissioner, into whether or not they colluded with loyalists as part of a campaign of organised state-sanctioned murder.
		According to the FRU source, there was an unbroken chain of command running from the handlers, to Kerr, then through to the military top brass in Ulster, on to the Ministry of Defence Chiefs of Staff, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and finally the Prime Minister.
	ftp.die.net /mirror/cryptome/hmg-murder.htm (2158 words)

	totse.com \| Enquiry: The Killing Years in Ireland
		The secret unit, called the Force Research Unit (FRU) was a high level intelligence unit tasked with handling undercover agents in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.
		Shortly before the murder, FRU had been informed of a plan to kill a leading member of the IRA, who was secretly a British intelligence agent.
		Called in by the FRU commander to destroy the incriminating evidence accumulating in police hands, the CME team flew in from England and carried out the arson attack on the police.
	www.totse.com /en/politics/terrorists_and_freedom_fighters/irspprop.html (1336 words)

	Fresh revelations on secret British terror organisation in Northern Ireland
		He is known as “Kevin” in the programme and became an IRA member on FRU instructions, during which he claims to have taken part in a series of terrorist bombings in the 1980s and the early 1990s.
		The newspaper alleged that the FRU was wound up in 1990 but was then reconstituted and was still in operation at the time of its exposure.
		The report documents the methods that were used to recruit soldiers into the FRU and details examples of their collusion with the paramilitary organisations.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/may2001/fru-m15.shtml (2380 words)

	Force Research Unit- RUC and British Army collusion in murder in northern Ireland. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Force Research Unit- RUC and British Army collusion in murder in northern Ireland.
		The FRU officer who spoke to the Sunday Herald, under guarantee of anonymity, said Kerr was in charge of the day-to-day handling of loyalist informers.
		Kerr was the first FRU commander to sanction his men crossing the Irish border on illegal reconnaissance missions into the Republic to recce IRA arms caches.
	www.relativesforjustice.com /publications/fru.htm (1556 words)

	Special Operations.Com
		The Force Research Unit is a covert military intelligence unit of the UK Ministry of Defense, under the Army's Special Intelligence Wing (SIW).
		FRU is thought to specifically target terrorist organizations in Northern Ireland.
		It is not clear the relationship between FRU, Royal Ulster Constabulary, MI5, GCHQ and 14 Company, however it is assumed that all work in tandem to support counterterrorist efforts in Northern Ireland.
	www.specialoperations.com /Foreign/United_Kingdom/FRU.htm (307 words)

	Force Research Unit Claimant
		There is no oversight or effective control over the covert elements of the Intelligence Corps or its sub units (Force Research Unit/Joing Services Group), and others operating under the instruction and guidance of the defendant within the jurisdiction of Northern Ireland and that of the Republic of Ireland.
		The force research unit was deployed in Northern Ireland in 1980 and given the job of recruiting and handling double agents who could infiltrate loyalist and republican terror groups.
		Sensitivity about the FRU is acute in the MoD, which has sought injunctions on newspapers that have attempted to reveal details of its operations.
	cryptome.sabotage.org /fru-claimant.htm (1086 words)

	CMP Directory - Nonhuman Primate Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Research units at the CNPRC include brain, mind, and behavior; reproductive and genetic sciences; respiratory diseases, and virology and immunology.
		Research opportunities are available for investigators from national and international institutions, as well as scientists within the UC Davis research community.
		Research on simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV; as a model for AIDS in rhesus monkeys), and in strategies for the development of vaccines against SIV and dengue viruses.
	www.ncrr.nih.gov /ncrrprog/cmpdir/PRIMATES.asp (5800 words)

	ipedia.com: Assassin Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Unlike some topics, notably terrorism, wherein there is a substantial grey area and often bitter controversy between which specific instances qualify or even what standards should be used, the "common sense" classification of assassination stated at the outset of this article seems to stand with few objections.
		At the same time, the KGB made creative use of assassination to deal with high-profile defectors such as Georgi Markov, and Israel's Mossad made use of such tactics to eliminate Palestinian guerrillas, politicians and revolutionaries, though some Israelis argue that the targeted often toed the line between one or another or were even all three.
		In the United States, Murder Incorporated, an organization partnered to the Mafia, was formed for the sole purpose of performing assassinations for organized crime.
	www.ipedia.com /assassin.html (3331 words)

	Education Policy Studies Laboratory: Language Policy Research Unit--Arizona State University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As reflected in the history of public policy, the United States from its earliest years seems to have been ambivalent about the role of other-than-English languages in society generally and in education specifically.
		With the United States transitioning from an agricultural society to industrial powerhouse to world leader, the nation became increasingly monolingual and interest in recognizing the importance of other languages and cultures narrowed.
		New research in foreign language education highlights the great promise of heritage" language education, school-based language programs that are closely linked to community language resources.
	www.asu.edu /educ/epsl/LPRU/features/brief7.htm (4320 words)

	The Force Research Unit (FRU) and loyalist death squads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Following the trial the widows of the two men sued the Ministry of Defence because of the involvement of the Force Research Unit in the killings and received a five figure sum in an out-of-court settlement.
		FRU, it is believed, had a representative at the weekly meetings of the Tasking and Co-ordination Group (TCG), the group responsible for liaison between all the different security forces/agencies including the RUC, MI5 and the British Army.
		The clear implication is that the Tasking and Co-ordination Group, composed of senior RUC and military personnel, were aware of the illegal activities of the Force Research Unit and loyalist paramilitaries from the Ulster Defence Association.
	www.serve.com /pfc/fru/fru12022k1d.html (630 words)

	The Force Research Unit - Exposed: captain who aided hitmen
		The FRU is the subject of the investigation by Sir John Stevens, Scotland Yard's commissioner.
		One former FRU officer has already been charged in connection with the investigation for allegedly intimidating a former colleague who is now the main whistleblower in the police inquiry.
		Although the FRU was thought to have disbanded in 1991, it merely changed its name to the Force Reconnaissance Unit and is still operating in Ulster.
	www.iol.ie /~pfc/fru/fru23022k1a.html (1073 words)

	The Force Research Unit Ulster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		According to security sources, the witness, a former member of the Army's Force Research Unit who goes by the cover-name Martin Ingram, has withdrawn statements about the activities of the covert army operation after the Crown Prosecution Service in England refused to press charges against another ex-FRU member for intimidating him.
		The Stevens Inquiry centres on the activities of the FRU, which was headed in the late 1980s by Brigadier Gordon Kerr, a former Gordon Highlander from Aberdeen.
		FRU members colluded, allegedly with Kerr's knowledge, with loyalist murder squads in the deaths of at least 14 Catholics in Ulster between 1987 and 1991.
	www.safrc.com /Militarisation/html/fru6.htm (444 words)

	Education Policy Studies Laboratory: Language Policy Research Unit--Arizona State University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A generation of research and practice has shown that developing academic skills and knowledge in students’ vernacular supports their acquisition of English (see, e.g., Ramírez, Yuen, and Ramey, 1991).
		They leaked an internal review of the research literature claiming there was no conclusive evidence for the effectiveness of bilingual instruction as compared with all-English approaches (Baker and de Kanter, 1981).
		Neither research nor experience supported a one-year standard for English acquisition, and – for the record – that year’s “redesignation rate” was 7 percent.
	www.asu.edu /educ/epsl/LPRU/features/brief8.htm (9126 words)

	cbc.ca
		Scappaticci is thought to have fled from his residence south of Dublin and gone into hiding, perhaps at the British military's Force Research Unit base in rural Dorset.
		The Force Research Unit is the British army's Northern Ireland spy team.
		IRA members or civilians found to have given information to the British were typically forced to record a confession, then were shot through the head, their naked and bound bodies dumped by country roadsides.
	www.cbc.ca /cgi-bin/templates/email.cgi?/2003/05/12/ira_stakeknife030512 (344 words)

	RAND \| Project AIR FORCE (PAF) \| Homepage
		However, a RAND Project AIR FORCE study suggests that cooperation between GPS and Galileo could have economic and military benefits for the United States.
		As current wartime operations in Afghanistan and Iraq eventually decline, MAF needs to be able to assess whether force training, readiness, and retention remain at the needed levels.
		In 1998, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force observed a mismatch between the qualifications of Air Force general officers (GOs) and some of the jobs that they needed to fill.
	www.rand.org /paf (1088 words)

	Force Research Unit
		The Force Research Unit and the murders of Pat Finucane, Gerald Slane,
		Some background on The Force Research Unit (FRU) and loyalist death squads.
		On Friday February 16 the North Belfast News (NBN) defied the MoD and published a report on the alleged FRU operative.
	www.serve.com /pfc/fru/fruindex.html (522 words)

	Force Research Unit Group Portrait
		Thanks to A. This shows members of the UK Force Research Unit (FRU), in charge of undercover operations in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.
		It has nothing to do with FRU, but runs more orthodox intelligence activities, such as the computer called CAISTER which holds “fine grain” intelligence files on most of the Northern Ireland population.
		At the time she ran agent Brian Nelson and supervised his murderous activities, she was a non commissioned officer (sergeant) in Britain’s Intelligence Corps.
	cryptome.sabotage.org /fru-portrait.htm (593 words)

	Air Force research base takes budget hit under Clinton plan
		Richard Paul, commander of the Air Force Research Lab, said two of seven research areas in the Human Effectiveness Directorate would be virtually eliminated if Congress approves the president's proposed budget for fiscal year 1999.
		Though every Air Force research installation took a budget hit in the proposal, Paul said Brooks sustained higher cuts than the average 7 percent throughout the lab system.
		Kelly Air Force Base, one of the city's largest employers, was targeted for realignment and is set to close in 2001.
	www.texnews.com /1998/texas/brooks0204.html (432 words)

	Army Air Force Histories
		We research Army Air Force unit records from World War II (and Air Force from Korea and Viet Nam).
		Researching, retrieving and reproducing unit records is an investment of time and many resources.
		Some fees may be different given the nature of the unit or research.
	www.militaryunits.com /aafhist.htm (512 words)

	The Force Research Unit The secret wars of a spymaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Detectives under the command of Scotland Yard's commissioner, Sir John Stevens, are currently investigating FRU collusion with loyalist terrorists and are planning to interview Kerr and arrest a number of FRU staff.
		In 1987, now ranking as a colonel, Kerr took over as OC of the FRU; and it was then that civilians started to die in Northern Ireland at the hands of loyalist gunmen, aided and abetted by the security forces.
		Gordon Kerr's Force Research Unit - a covert British military intelligence cell - passed information to loyalist terrorists, recruited as double agents, which was used to kill Catholics and Republicans in Ulster during the 1980s.
	www.safrc.com /Militarisation/html/fru4.htm (1993 words)

	CBS News \| IRA Enforcer Was British Spy \| May 12, 2003 13:37:31
		The unit allegedly overseen by Scappaticci killed dozens of suspected informers, while Sunday's reports suggested his tipoffs allowed the British to kill or arrest key IRA personnel.
		Last month, Stevens issued a report linking informers used by the Force Research Unit to Protestant militants' murder of Catholic lawyer Pat Finucane, who was shot numerous times in front of his wife and children.
		The newspaper said the British unit paid him about $130,000 a year, although others estimated he was not as well-paid.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/05/12/world/main553436.shtml (1055 words)

	Sunday Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But he denied claims he had ever served in the unit, and dismissed claims that it was him who appeared with FRU boss, Brigadier Gordon Kerr, at a dinner function.
		The FRU was at the centre of collusion, providing UDA spy, Brian Nelson, with victims' details to be passed on to loyalist murder squads.
		"My impression is that the FRU had an extremely difficult job to do, and was for the most part extremely effective, but it is a very difficult area in which they were operating.
	www.sundaylife.co.uk /news/story.jsp?story=573040 (396 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Guardian daily comment \| Martin Ingram: My part in the dirty war
		The four-year inquiry into "collusion" between the security forces and terrorists in Northern Ireland will conclude this week that the police and army did indeed help loyalist paramilitaries to target people for assassination - and the practice was widespread.
		For many years I was a member of a covert army squad, the Force Research Unit, at the centre of many of the allegations investigated by Sir John Stevens, the Metropolitan police commissioner.
		If the FRU told the agent not to get involved, it could ruin years of work and the potential to save lives.
	www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,937581,00.html (815 words)

	Survey Research Unit
		A majority supports two main components of the document: security arrangements involving the deployment a multinational force (58%) and the Israeli withdrawal based on the 1967 borders with mutual 1:1 territorial exchange (57%).
		The percentage of opposition to the deployment of a multinational force reaches 40% and to territorial exchange 41%.
		The Jerusalem component of the document received the support of 46% with 52% opposing; end of conflict received 42% support with 55% opposing; and the establishment of a state without an army received 36% support with 63% opposing.
	www.pcpsr.org /survey/polls/2003/p10epressrelease.html (912 words)

	CAIN: Issues: Collusion - Transcript of BBC Panorama programme, 23 June 2002
		Note: this transcript was typed from a transcription unit recording and not copied from an original script: because of the possibility of mis-hearing and the difficulty, in some cases of identifying individual speakers, the BBC cannot vouch for its accuracy.
		But it's what his unit chose to put in those reports that really mattered, because what they chose to leave out could be a matter of life or death.
		KERR: Slane was killed but no one in the Force Research Unit or the Special Branch knew that an imminent attack was being planned, or that he had been singled out as a target.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /issues/collusion/docs/panorama230602.htm (6174 words)

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