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	Loyalist Volunteer Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) is a loyalist terrorist group in Northern Ireland which broke away from the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and was led by the late Billy Wright.
		The INLA claimed that this "execution" was in reprisal for Wright's sectarianism: neither of the two other LVF men in the prison van, one of whom was on remand for beating to death a Catholic teenager, was harmed.
		The LVF is the only paramilitary group in Ireland to have killed a journalist, Martin O'Hagan, who was exposing their involvement in the heroin trade.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/LVF (810 words)

	Encyclopedia: LVF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) are an extremist Loyalist paramilitary grouping in Northern Ireland which broke away from the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and was led by the late Billy Wright.
		Wright was murdered on the 27th December 1997 by members of the INLA housed in an adjacent wing of the prison, as he sat in a van waiting to be taken for a visit.
		Wright's death in essence finished the LVF as a viable terrorist gang.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/LVF (299 words)

	Loyalist Volunteer Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The LVF is composed of hardliners formerly associated with the UVF who refused to accept the loyalist cease-fire.
		The LVF is believed to be responsible for a number of bombings and sectarian killings, including the killing of Sean Brown in Bellaghy in May, and Seamus Dillon and Eddie Treanor in December 1997.
		The LVF was also thought to be responsible for the killing of Gerry Devlin, a 36-year-old Catholic man who was shot in North Belfast on 05 December 1997.
	www.ict.org.il /inter_ter/orgdet.cfm?orgid=72 (536 words)

	Encyclopedia: Billy Wright (terrorist) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Despite a series of sectarian murders and attacks on Catholic property attributed to the LVF through 1996-1997 (although they were not claimed), Wright was not successfully imprisoned until March 1997 when he was convicted of threatening to kill a woman and sentenced to eight years.
		He demanded and was granted a LVF section in C and D wings of H-block 6 (H6) for himself and 26 fellow terrorists.
		The LVF was reduced without its leader and became more closely tied to the UFF of Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Billy-Wright-%28terrorist%29 (1447 words)

	Sunday Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is understood the deal was finally completed in the early autumn, when a senior LVF member travelled to Belgium, and arranged for the weapons to be smuggled into Northern Ireland, later in the year.
		It is also understood that the LVF has reorganised and restructured its units across Northern Ireland in recent weeks, with defections from other loyalist paramilitary groups helping to swell its ranks in many areas.
		Meanwhile, sources close to the LVF said it was poised to launch a clean-up initiative, to remove murals and graffiti from certain loyalist estates in Belfast and in Holywood, Co Down.
	www.nuzhound.com /archive/goto.php?id=112541 (270 words)

	In the Spotlight: The Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF)
		Born of intra-UVF feuding, the LVF’s origins helped foster an aberrant pattern of violence; that is, as much tension exists between the LVF and other loyalist groups as exists between the LVF and its republican-nationalist enemies.
		However, the confessions of LVF insiders suggest that the killing was intended to be Billy Wright’s “birthday present.” Another murder with no direct political significance was that of 18-year-old Bernadette Martin, a Catholic murdered while in her Protestant boyfriend’s home.
		Though the LVF was suspected of killings and drug-smuggling, the United Kingdom’s Northern Ireland Office (NIO) recognized their ceasefire, making 1999 a quiet year for the terrorist group.
	www.cdi.org /program/issue/document.cfm?DocumentID=1687&IssueID=56&StartRow=1&ListRows=10&appendURL=&Orderby=DateLastUpdated&ProgramID=39&issueID=56 (1223 words)

	Sunday Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		LVF chiefs have dismissed claims that up to 70 of its members have joined Johnny Adair's UFF 'C' company.
		LVF leaders previously considered amalgamating with the UFF but opted to keep the LVF's independence in memory of the group's founder, Billy Wright.
		A source close to the LVF leadership confirmed there was a close affinity between the two terrorist organisations.
	www.sundaylife.co.uk /news/story.jsp?story=312894 (397 words)

	Loyalist Volunteer Forces Hand in Weapons
		Under the terms of the peace accord, Northern Ireland's rival militias are to gradually reduce their arsenals, with the goal of being completely decommissioned by the summer of the year 2000.
		The LVF is a small but ruthless Protestant group, which until last Spring was an adamant and violent opponent of the peace process.
		Since its origin in 1996 the LVF has a history of indiscriminate killings of Catholics in an attempt to prevent the unification of Ireland.
	www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=202 (349 words)

	Newshound: Links to daily newspaper articles about Northern Ireland - The People
		LVF boss Robin King is set to be kicked from his throne at the top of the mid-Ulster based killing machine within weeks.
		King has a fearsome reputation, and was the Officer Commanding the LVF wing in the Maze in 2000 when he declared the LVF war to be over.
		He was also accused of the murder of fellow LVF member David Keys, although the case against him and fellow LVF leader Alfie Phillips collapsed in 2000.
	www.nuzhound.com /articles/Sunday_People/arts2002/lvf_feud9-1-02.html (1091 words)

	Loyalist Volunteer Force : LVF
		The Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) are an extremist Loyalist terror grouping in Northern Ireland which broke away from the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)and was led by the late Billy Wright.
		Wright was murdered on the 27th December 1997 by members of the INLA, who were housed in an adjacent wing of the prison, as he sat in a van waiting to be taken for a visit.
		Wright’s death in essence finished the LVF as a viable terror gang.
	www.fastload.org /lv/LVF.html (275 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Vengeance threat by loyalist chief
		The LVF does not see itself as part of what it castigates as double standards because it has no political wing and has never supported the peace accord, which it views as a one way street of concessions to nationalists.
		The LVF member said these candidates would not be aligned to any paramilitary group, but would be the sort of people grassroots loyalists could support and would go to Stormont as hardline opposition to the agreement.
		The LVF carried out the first act of decommissioning in December 1998, giving up a small number of antiquated guns, in what was largely dismissed as a stunt.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,715523,00.html (912 words)

	BBC - History - Loyalist Volunteer Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In July 1997 the LVF was linked to the murder of an 18-year-old Catholic woman as she slept with her Protestant boyfriend at his home in Aghalee near Portadown.
		The LVF were also said to be involved in the feud on the Shankill between the UVF and the UDA later in the year.
		When the LVF was linked to the murder of journalist Martin O' Hagan at the end of September 2001, the Secretary of State was moved to declare on 12th October that the government no longer recognised their ceasefire.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/war/troubles/factfiles/lvf.shtml (577 words)

	Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The LVF decommissioned a small but significant amount of weapons in December 1998, but it has not repeated this gesture and in fact threatened in 2000 to resume killing Catholics.
		LVF attacks have been particularly vicious: the group has murdered numerous Catholic civilians with no political or terrorist affiliations, including an 18-year-old Catholic girl in July 1997 because she had a Protestant boyfriend.
		In 2000, the LVF also engaged in a brief but violent feud with other loyalists in which several individuals were killed.
	library.nps.navy.mil /home/tgp/lvf.htm (202 words)

	Pressmeddelande från Svenska kyrkan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Det berättar C R Joy, en av Lutherska världsförbundets, LVF, anställda i Orissa som blev ögonvittne till cyklonen i slutet av oktober.
		LVF har 180 lokalanställda i Orissa och får stöd av Lutherhjälpen sedan många år för långsiktiga utvecklingsprogram.
		I den akuta fasen kommer LVF och CASA att distribuera mat, kläder, filtar, stearinljus och tändstickor till 32 000 familjer.
	www.svenskakyrkan.se /tcrot/press/sv/99/Indien-cyklon.htm (306 words)

	Legion des Volontaires Francais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Besides, a number of volunteers were rejected as the Germans had instructions that the LVF was to be a small unit so as not to give a mistaken impression about the importance of a defeated France in the new Europe.
		The LVF would become the Franzosisches Vestartktes Infanterie Regiment 638 (French Reinforced Infantry Regiment 638; reinforced only in name as it would be deployed as a light regiment with only two battalions) of the German Army.
		The LVF was withdrawn to Smolensk, arriving by 9 January, to be attached to the 403rd Sicherungs (Security) Division.
	www.wargamesdirectory.com /html/articles/Various/LegionDesVolontairesFrancais.asp (716 words)

	The Observer \| UK News \| Murder probe 'blocked to protect police informer'
		The LVF was founded in 1996 after Billy 'King Rat' Wright defected from the Ulster Volunteer Force.
		A narco-terrorist group which brought ecstasy into Northern Ireland in the Nineties, the LVF is riddled with police and MI5 informers, several of whom have escaped imprisonment even though they were caught red- handed with large quantities of drugs.
		They were later acquitted in a secret deal involving an LVF member who had approached his handlers in the security services promising to deliver terrorist decommissioning to the British Government.
	www.observer.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,6903,591434,00.html (857 words)

	CLMP - What's New - CLMP Merges with the Literary Ventures Fund
		As the LVF catalogue of supported books grows, the mere granting of support itself may help advance a work through the literary world.
		LVF President Jim Bildner says, "In the current environment, many of us believe that if great writers like Hemingway, Fitzgerald, or Flannery O'Connor were beginning their careers today, they would have difficulty finding a publisher who could afford to nurture their careers from the beginning.
		LVF will serve as the parent company of the merged entities; however, both non-profit organizations will maintain their own incorporations and separate branding.
	www.clmp.org /news/050905.html (463 words)

	Sunday Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		UVF chiefs are eager to wipe-out LVF rivals within weeks - but the bloody feud between the loyalist terror groups could drag on for months.
		A UVF source said: "The big problem is that we need to get this over as soon as possible, and give the LVF the pasting that will mean they will never come back at us again, and that it is finished.
		But, while Mr Lockhart had connections to LVF members, Mr McCausland's family is adamant that he had no involvement in paramilitarism.
	www.sundaylife.co.uk /news/story.jsp?story=652825 (292 words)

	Press Release: LVF-UV-HL and LVF-HL Linear Variable Filters
		Additionally, LVF sets enable the user to shape the excitation energy from a single broadband source as opposed to using multiple light sources with various wavelengths or a front-end scanning monochromator.
		The filters are pre-set with a transmission bandwidth at 25 nm, but easy-to-adjust screws allow the user to create a transmission bandwidth as wide as 100 nm or as narrow as 20 nm by positioning the filters against one another.
		Additionally, LVF slides can be used on the emission side of a fluorescence experiment to better discriminate between a fluorophore’s weak emission wavelengths and those of a more powerful excitation source.
	www.oceanoptics.com /corporate/pressreleases/2004_Releases/lvf_release.asp (343 words)

	Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF)
		Wright was the leader of the LVF loyalist terrorist organization.
		In October 2001, the British Government ruled that the LVF had broken the cease-fire it declared in 1998 after linking the group to the murder of a journalist.
		According to the State Department Patterns of Global Terrorism 2003 Report, the LVF was the chief suspect behind a bomb attack against a Catholic home in Northern Ireland in February 2003.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/para/lvf.htm (509 words)

	The Observer \| Magazine \| The downfall of Mad Dog Adair
		He had never fully recovered from the murder in 1997 of Billy Wright, his LVF commander and close friend, and he was also convinced he was dying of stomach cancer.
		Jackie McDonald could hardly believe his ears when one of his commanders told him the LVF in Lurgan, County Armagh, had asked to borrow some camouflage equipment on the basis that they were 'all part of the same organisation now'.
		The LVF was stunned by Warnock's murder, and Adair was immediately convinced it had been carried out by the UDA on the orders of Jim Gray.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /magazine/story/0,11913,1055980,00.html (3466 words)

	N1081 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		AgriBioTech purchased LVF for approximately $5.0 million in cash and 295,000 shares of AgriBioTech common stock with aggregate value of $5.0 million based on prices at the time terms were agreed to.
		In addition, AgriBioTech agreed to acquire approximately $2.4 million of property, plant and equipment of LVF not originally anticipated to be acquired, for $0.5 million in cash and the balance payable to the former owners of LVF over 7 years with interest at prime plus one-half percent.
		LVF specializes in the distribution of turfgrass seed and ancillary products to golf courses, and lawn and garden products to home improvement centers, mass merchants and independent nurseries in Nevada, California, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming.
	www.seedquest.com /News/Press%20releases/AgriBioTech/N1081.htm (293 words)

	Sunday Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		TO the LVF boys in Lurgan, Neil Lennon is just another Òtaig from theÊotherÊsideÊofÊtownÓ.ÊAmong ordinary loyalists in the bitterly divided Co Armagh town there is a grudging, unspoken respect for Lennon as a local lad done good.
		Meeting the LVF is like coming into contact with the kind of guys who hang around outside run-down pubs and low-rent clubs on a Friday night waiting to get their kicks from stabbing someone who looks at them the wrong way or beating a guy senseless just for the hell of it.
		The LVF army council spokesman also made great play of the fact that on the same day the Lennon threat was issued, the Real IRA issued a codedÊstatementÊadmittingÊitÊkilledÊDavid Caldwell,Êa 51-year-oldÊconstruction worker who died after a booby-trapped lunchbox exploded in a territorial army base in Derry.
	www.sundayherald.com /print27165 (2463 words)

	The Observer \| Politics \| Adair stokes loyalist feuds
		The UVF's assault on the LVF in Belfast is in part motivated by a desire to destroy any potential base Adair might build among the loyalist dissidents who oppose the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement.
		It later transpired that the attackers were attached to a gang of LVF terrorists led by a family from the Ballysillan area of north Belfast; their targets being supporters of the UVF-aligned Progressive Unionist party, and their motivation partly revenge for previous UVF assaults on LVF members in east Belfast.
		The guns and explosive were later distributed among the LVF's units in preparation for the expected all-out attack by the UVF.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /politics/story/0,6903,1222774,00.html (666 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Loyalist feud reaches an uneasy truce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Senior sources in the UVF told The Observer yesterday that the deal on the table included the disbanding of several LVF units in the east of the city.
		The PUP claimed throughout the fortnight-long feud that elements of the security forces were using informants connected to the LVF to engineer another crisis among loyalists.
		There has been concern in the UDA that elements of the LVF, notably a loyalist family from the Ballysilla area of North Belfast, would provide Adair with a new power base on his release.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1228012,00.html (717 words)

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