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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		At the height of the latest feud between the various factions of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) Billy Hutchinson of the Progressive Unionist Party (PUP), voice of the Loyalist killers of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), pointed the finger of blame at a hitherto unnamed third party in the feud.
		In a previous feud between the UVF and UDA the numerically weaker UVF were able to hold their own because of this surreptitious support from the state.
		Loyalists, and their feuds, are in equal measure about who is the biggest bigot and who controls drugs, protection and prostitution (much of which is child prostitution).
	members.lycos.co.uk /socialistdemocracyie/SDJWinter2003TheLoyalistFeud.html (750 words)

	Loyalist feud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A loyalist feud refers to any of the sporadic feuds which have erupted almost routinely between Northern Ireland's various loyalist paramilitary groups since the late 1990s.
		The most violent was one in 2002, which split the Ulster Defence Association, one of the main loyalist organisations in Northern Ireland.
		The loyalist feud of 2002 arose after former prisoner Johnny Adair and former politician John White were expelled from the Ulster Defence Association.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Loyalist_Feud (297 words)

	Irish American Post
		Well it's clearly against the backdrop of the loyalist feud between the mainstream UDA, if you like, and C Company, which no less a figure than the Chief Constable Hugh Orde made no bones about in his speech earlier this week, was in his words, the infamous Johnny Adair and his cronies.
		Loyalist sources claim members of Adair`s C Company group were on the same ferry as Gregg and his companions as they returned home from Stranraer.
		The funeral in the loyalist Rathcoole Estate on the outskirts of north Belfast is expected to be the biggest loyalist paramilitary show of strength since LVF leader Billy Wright was buried.
	www.gaelicweb.com /irishampost/year2003/02jan-feb/news/news03.html (5157 words)

	Loyalist Feud: Dictionary definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The loyalist feud refers to a feud which in 2002 split the Ulster Defence Association, one of the main loyalist organisations in Northern Ireland.
		Major loyalist terrorist groups include Red Hand Commanders[?], the Ulster Defence Association, Ulster Freedom Fighters, though such groups often use 'cover' names when carrying out violent acts and murders.
		The killings numbered four, with the first victim being a nephew of a leading loyalist opposed to Adair, Jonathon Stewart, killed at a party on December 26, 2002.
	www.encyclopedian.com /lo/Loyalist-Feud.html (238 words)

	CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 2000
		Loyalist paramilitaries were blamed for the attack on the officer who was a witness in a Northern Ireland arms trial.
		Loyalist sources said this was in retaliation for Bertie Rice's death, and blamed the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) for the killing.
		The killing was part of a feud between the UDA and the UVF and brought to seven the number of men killed since August.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /othelem/chron/ch00.htm (4926 words)

	Loyalist Feud Definition / Loyalist Feud Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The loyalist feud refers to a feudA feud is a long-running argument or fight between two groups of people, especially families or clans.
		Feuds tend to begin because a member of one group attacks or insults a member of the other, and then turn into long-running cycles of retaliation.
		loyalist feud is a power-struggle, this is where it lay.
	www.elresearch.com /Loyalist_Feud (460 words)

	Feud
		Family Feud Family Feud is a popular USA that pits two families against each other in a quiz format.
		Feud A feud is a long-running argument or fight between two groups of people, especially clans.
		Loyalist Feud The loyalist feud refers to a Northern Ireland.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/feud.html (96 words)

	Sectarian Attacks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Loyalist leader Johnny Adair led a group of loyalists carrying UFF and UDA flags to mural unveilings.
		The PUP accused the UDA/UFF of having caused the feud by breaking an agreement not to allow an LVF presence at the rally on the Shankill on 19 August.
		Dismissing the casting of the feud as a turf war over drugs and prostitution, the PUP man said the feud was the result of concerted efforts to isolate, vilify and root out pro-agreement and progressive politics from within the Protestant community.
	www.serve.com /pfc/sattacks/july005att.html (1750 words)

	CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 2001
		Loyalists paramilitaries were believed to be responsible for leaving the device in the front garden of the house on the Cavehill Road.
		Loyalists jeered and shouted sectarian abuse as the children, some as young as four years of age, were escorted by the parents into the school.
		Loyalist paramilitaries fired a number of shots at a Nationalist crowd and a woman (19) was reported to have been shot in the leg.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /othelem/chron/ch01.htm (19234 words)

	Loyalist
		Loyalist see also Loyalist, Ontario In general, a loyalist is an individual who is loyal to the powers that be.
		Loyalist, Ontario Loyalist is a Lennox and Addington County and consists of two parts: the mainland and Amherst Island.
		Loyalist Volunteer Force The Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) are an extremist Ireland.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/loyalist.html (107 words)

	Guardian \| Loyalist feud reaches an uneasy truce
		Feuding between loyalist terrorists that has claimed one life and seen several families driven from their homes is over.
		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.
		Moves will now be made by both major loyalist paramilitary forces to gain an assurance from the LVF that it will not give Adair its backing after he is released from Maghaberry top-security jail in January.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4935771-103588,00.html (664 words)

	New Loyalist feud erupts
		Loyalist paramilitaries control criminal empires that are worth tens of millions of pounds.
		Given the usefulness of loyalists to both the British state and the unionists, it is very unlikely that there will be any serious attempt to curtail their activities, except insofar as they endanger themselves.
		The most likely scenario in the current loyalist feud will be a reconciliation of the rival loyalist factions as they agree a new division of their criminal rackets.
	www.socialistdemocracy.org /News&AnalysisIreland/News&AnalysisIreNewLoyalistFeudErupts.htm (1016 words)

	Loyalist Volunteer Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		It is not the aim or intention of Scottish Loyalists to incite hatred of Roman Catholics but rather, by use of facts and...
		Protection was likely a key reason for the Loyalists to prefer government by Britain, but their loyalty to...
		Convicted loyalist leader Johnny Adair is released from prison in Northern Ireland and flown to Manchester.
	www.job-search-ireland.co.uk /jobsireland/loyalist_volunteer_force.html (282 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| N Ireland \| Loyalist paramilitary feud ends
		Members of the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) and Ulster Defence Association (UDA) have been attempting to try to end the bloody dispute which has centred on east Belfast.
		The latest loyalist feud can be traced back to two shootings in September - the murder of LVF member Stephen Warnock, and the wounding of Jim Gray - a senior UDA member in east Belfast.
		It was their third meeting in recent days, and their statement officially ends the latest feud within loyalism.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/2405989.stm (377 words)

	RTE News - Mandelson welcomes Loyalist feud cessation
		Peter Mandelson said that those who had brought about the cessation of the feud had "done a great service to their community and to the people of Northern Ireland".
		The feud involving the main Loyalist paramilitary groups erupted last August and a series of tit-for-tat shooting incidents over the following three months left seven dead, and a number of others injured.
		There were also bomb attacks on the offices of the rival Loyalist political parties, and more than 200 families were intimidated out of their homes.
	www.rte.ie /news/2000/1215/loyalistfeud.html (324 words)

	Sectarian Attacks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		His family stressed that his death had nothing to do with the feud, while the RUC were said to be investigating a crossbow bolt which had been fired through the window of his home on the night of his death.
		UVF sources told the Observer that while it was still preoccupied with the on-going loyalist feud, which it described as "far from over", it was prepared to start bombing targets in the Republic of Ireland should the executive fail and joint London-Dublin authority over northern Irish affairs be imposed.
		By this stage the feud has claimed three lives and caused 200 families, or over 1,000 people, to be put out of their homes.
	www.serve.com /pfc/sattacks/loyalfeud2att.html (1407 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The feud, an internecine turf war between the two organisations over the spoils of the North's drug trade, extortion and prostitution rackets, threatens to destabilise the North.
		So far this feud has been mainly confined to Belfast and any blow to the LVF would have to involve mid-Ulster, where the LVF is at its strongest.
		In all previous feuds, loyalists have turned their guns on Catholics as a means of reassuring their supporters of their raison d'etre.
	www.thepost.ie /post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqid=7261-qqqx=1.asp (858 words)

	The Scotsman - UK - Adair jailed as fears of loyalist feud rise again
		THE paramilitary leader, Johnny Adair, was arrested yesterday and returned to prison in an indication that the government fears an escalation of a loyalist feud.
		Adair is at the centre of a vicious feud with rivals after being expelled from the Ulster Defence Association last year.
		The loyalist’s close associate John White said he was astonished at Adair's return to jail.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=35632003 (516 words)

	Efforts to end loyalist feud
		Loyalist sources report progress in the mediation talks aimed at ending the LVF and UVF feud.
		Loyalist paramilitaries involved in recent attacks are urged by the NI security minister to end their escalating feud.
		A loyalist who confessed to the "cruel and callous" murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane is jailed for life.
	www.stargeek.com /item/141353.html (857 words)

	BBC News \| NORTHERN IRELAND \| Loyalist feud truce hopes
		It is now believed that the senior loyalist figures will brief their respective paramilitary groups on the discussions.
		According to loyalist sources, the UDA's so-called inner council was to meet first on Friday, ahead of planned talks with members of the UVF and Red Hand Commando.
		Fourteen of the most senior figures in the loyalist paramilitary leaderships were then expected at that second meeting.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/1028084.stm (425 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Shootings blamed on loyalist feud
		Police blamed a feud between the Ulster Volunteer Force and a splinter group, the Loyalist Volunteer Force.
		Unionist politicians appealed for calm as loyalists across Northern Ireland were due to congregate for the "11th night" bonfires which commemorate William of Orange's victory over the Catholic James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
		In Ballymena, the heavily fortified Catholic church at Harryville, the scene of loyalist pickets in the 1990s, was hit with paint bombs.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1526568,00.html (370 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Two shot dead as loyalist feud intensifies
		The loyalist feud erupted again in Belfast last night when gunmen shot dead a leading member of the Ulster Democratic party, in retaliation for the killing hours earlier of a man who worked for a political party linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force.
		Amid fears of an escalation in the three-month old loyalist feud, extra troops were ordered on to the streets of Belfast last night.
		Mr Rice was the fifth victim of the feud between the UDA and the UVF.
	www.guardianunlimited.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,390813,00.html (513 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - UK - Security forces on high alert as fears rise over Loyalist feud
		A LOYALIST feud which has already claimed the life of one man could descend into a downward spiral of death, it was claimed last night.
		His family said he was shot simply because he was a nephew of a prominent Loyalist who was forced to leave west Belfast’s Lower Shankill estate by the Ulster Defence Association’s renegade C Company, led by Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair.
		The shooting is the latest in a catalogue of attacks since C Company leaders were ousted from the UDA in October after allegedly siding with another Loyalist grouping in an earlier dispute.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=1442432002 (798 words)

	Loyalist feud blamed for attacks on taxi firm
		Loyalist feud blamed for attacks on taxi firm
		A spate of attacks on taxis in north Belfast are being linked to a feud between rival loyalists it emerged today.
		It is thought the incidents may be linked to a feud between the Loyalist Volunteer Force and the rival Ulster Volunteer Force in the area.
	www.4ni.co.uk /industrynews.asp?id=36961 (262 words)

	BBC News \| NORTHERN IRELAND \| Murder as loyalist feud boils over
		The murder of the prominent Portadown loyalist Richard Jameson is being linked by security sources to a long-running feud between rival paramilitary organisations.
		Wright was later murdered by members of the INLA inside the Maze jail and in the period after the shooting the LVF was seen at its most active as it engaged in gun attacks in several parts of the province.
		A number of Catholics were killed and police investigations showed that at least one of the gun attacks was carried out by the larger loyalist group the Ulster Freedom Fighters, who used the title of the LVF to try to cover up their involvment.
	news8.thdo.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/598794.stm (567 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Gun attack escalates loyalist feud
		The fourth inter-loyalist feud since the start of the century escalated this weekend after a gun attack in north Belfast.
		The Loyalist Volunteer Force was blamed for a shooting in front of a taxi firm in the Sunningdale area shortly before 5am yesterday morning.
		The people of the Greater Shankill want an end to all feuding and bloodshed because their area is still suffering the effects of the first feud of August 2000 between the UVF and UDA.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /northernirelandassembly/story/0,9061,1401941,00.html (542 words)

	BreakingNews.ie: Belfast shootings linked to 'loyalist feud' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Feuding loyalist paramilitaries in Belfast were today blamed for shooting one man dead and critically wounding another.
		A 19-year-old was killed by three gunmen who burst into a house in the north of the city and opened fire.
		Loyalist terrorists have a long and bloody history of conflicts on the streets of Belfast.
	www.breakingnews.ie /2005/07/11/story211098.html (488 words)

	Guardian \| UDA buries second loyalist feud victim
		A leading loyalist shot dead in the feud between rival gangs in Belfast was given a full paramilitary funeral yesterday, with more than 1,000 members of the Ulster Defence Association and Ulster Freedom Fighters following his flag- draped coffin through the Shankill area of the city.
		Jackie Coulter, a prominent member of the UDA and close associate of the convicted terrorist Johnny Adair, was shot in the head as he sat in a Land Rover Discovery by a lone gunman from the rival Ulster Volunteer Force on Monday.
		The different loyalist battalions, dressed almost to a man in dark suits, white shirts and fl ties, filled the street outside, as marshals with fl arm bands and walkie-talkies kept photographers well back.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4055461-103690,00.html (617 words)

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