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Topic: Loyalist paramilitaries

	PatFinucane
		That is allegations of collusion between British forces and loyalists and the South African arms shipment used to re-arm the loyalist paramilitaries in the last 1980s as well as the murder of Pat Finucane.
		Between a half and a third of the weapons however still remain in the hands of loyalist paramilitaries o Nelson's central role in the arms transaction and transport meant he, and therefore British intelligence, knew the location of the farmhouse where the weapons would be stored initially after landing.
		That is, collusion between British forces and loyalist paramilitaries including a full investigation of the shipment of South African arms used to rearm the loyalist paramilitaries in the late 1980s.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/Irish_Aires/patfinuc.htm (6675 words)

	CAIN: Issue: Violence - Chronology of 'pipe-bomb' attacks
		Loyalist paramilitaries were blamed for the attack on the officer who was a witness in a Northern Ireland arms trial.
		Loyalists paramilitaries were believed to be responsible for leaving the device in the front garden of the house on the Cavehill Road.
		A Loyalist, whose family escaped injury in a pipe-bomb attack on their home in Lurgan, County Armagh, claims the police knew it was going to happen.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /issues/violence/attacks/pipebomb.htm (5763 words)

	CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 2001
		Loyalist paramilitaries planted a car bomb in Castle Street in the centre of Ballycastle, County Antrim, while thousands of people were in the town to celebrate the annual Auld Lammas Fair.
		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)

	Socialism Today, issue 40 - The Loyalist psyche
		But in the 1990s a change had taken place in the pattern of slaughter: "By 1992 and 1993, the Loyalist paramilitaries were killing more people a year than the IRA and now, unlike so often in the past, many of their victims were Republicans".
		Their tacit support for these actions was spelt out by the Official Unionist deputy leader, John Taylor, who comments: "The Loyalist paramilitaries achieved something which perhaps the security forces would never have achieved, and that was they were a significant contribution to the IRA finally accepting that they could not win".
		John Taylor answers: "The Loyalist paramilitaries in their illegal activity actually began to overtake the IRA as being the major para-military organisation and terrorist organisation in Northern Ireland.
	www.socialismtoday.org /40/loyalist40.html (3563 words)

	Irish American Post
		Though in response, the Loyalist Commission, which is made up of paramilitaries, church leaders, politicians and community workers, met four journalists for the first time to issue a statement.
		The Loyalist Commission expressed disappointment, that in their words, republicans had not responded to its initiative on June 15, vowing that there would be no first strike in flashpoint areas.
		A significant step you say but at the same time the statement from the Loyalist Commission makes it very clear that it believes that loyalist paramilitaries are only involved in a defensive capacity and they are not going to stop until the others stop.
	www.gaelicweb.com /irishampost/year2002/09september/news/news04.html (3044 words)

	Northern Ireland: Loyalist paramilitaries had security intelligence files
		A clampdown on loyalist paramilitaries carried out by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) resulted in the discovery of some 300 security files in an Orange Hall in Stoneyford, Co Antrim.
		It is believed they were used by loyalist paramilitaries opposed to the Good Friday Agreement to draw up lists of targets for their ongoing terror campaign against Catholics.
		Long regarded as merely the judicial arm of the Protestant ruling class, its drive against loyalist paramilitaries was meant to give it a more "neutral" image.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/nov1999/ire-n09.shtml (679 words)

	Unionist politicians and paramilitaries unite: ThePost.ie
		Loyalist paramilitaries are under pressure over their role in sectarian attacks in north Antrim and the ongoing feud between loyalist organisations.
		Saulters said he was unaware of the presence of loyalist paramilitaries at the Larne event and refused to comment further.
		Unionist politicians should be using their influence with loyalist paramilitaries to get them to decommission and end their sectarian campaigns, rather than giving them any form of moral support.
	archives.tcm.ie /businesspost/2005/09/04/story7642.asp (1053 words)

	Global Guerrillas: LOYALIST PARAMILITARIES
		loyalist paramilitaries are an example of a solution which fails the grand strategy test--they significantly deteriorate our moral standing/isolation.
		However, these loyalist never gained legitimacy in the eyes of the East Timorese, because of the wanton violence that was unleashed upon the general populace.
		Yes paramilitaries are a likely method, and I have been gob-smacked that the US has not drawn heavily on its extensive ‘dirty war’ experience in the 20th century when faced with Iraq.
	globalguerrillas.typepad.com /globalguerrillas/2004/10/solution_decent.html (2472 words)

	Terrorism: Q & A \| Northern Ireland Loyalist Paramilitaries (U.K., extremists)
		Loyalists want Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom, and many are willing to support the use of violence to keep the Protestant-majority province, also known as Ulster, under British rule.
		Despite accounting for almost 30 percent of the deaths in the Northern Ireland conflict, loyalists’ attacks have generally drawn far less media and international attention than those perpetrated by the IRA.
		Experts say loyalist groups have often acted out of religious hatred, while the IRA has more often targeted British security officers—killing more than 1,000 of them—in an effort to further its political goal of ejecting the British from Northern Ireland.
	www.terrorismanswers.org /groups/uvf.html (818 words)

	BBC News \| NORTHERN IRELAND \| Who are the loyalist paramilitaries?
		Formed in 1971, the UDA was an umbrella organisation for loyalist "defence" groups and had tens of thousands of members at its peak.
		The name was revived in 1966 as loyalists came together to oppose liberal unionism and its rapprochement with the Catholic population of Northern Ireland and the emerging civil rights movement.
		Loyalist Volunteer Force is a splinter group which was led by Billy Wright, until he was murdered by republicans in the Maze prison at Christmas 1997.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk/northern_ireland/newsid_893000/893094.stm (653 words)

	BBC News \| NORTHERN IRELAND \| Davies meets loyalist paramilitaries
		According to loyalist sources, members of the three main paramilitary organisations - the Ulster Defence Association, Ulster Volunteer Force and Red Hand Commando were present.
		None of the main loyalist paramilitary organisations have started to disarm since the first IRA arms were decommissioned last year.
		Both the UDA and Loyalist Volunteer Force ceasefires were declared invalid by Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid following a sustained campaign of pipe bombings and rioting in north Belfast and the murder of investigative journalist Martin O'Hagan.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/1843039.stm (411 words)

	Terrorism: Q & A \| Northern Ireland Loyalist Paramilitaries (U.K., extremists)
		According to Brendan O’Leary of the London School of Economics, the main loyalist paramilitary groups “lost the opportunity” created by the Good Friday Agreement to grow politically and move into the mainstream—as the IRA’s political wing Sinn Fein has—because of internal divisions and their relatively unsophisticated membership.
		But experts consider the loyalist paramilitary groups to be far less disciplined, less politically astute, and more prone to ordinary criminal behavior—especially drug-dealing and racketeering—than the IRA.
		In their heyday in the 1970s, the loyalists wielded an implicit veto over a British withdrawal from Northern Ireland because of their threat of reprisals against Irish Catholics.
	www.terrorismanswers.org /groups/uvf2.html (763 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Northern Ireland \| Hain challenges loyalist groups (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The NI secretary has said loyalist paramilitaries will not be allowed to terrorise their own communities.
		He said: "The choice for loyalist paramilitaries is clear: play the political role that you claim as your motive, or face the rigour of the law as the mafia organisations into which you seem to be degenerated.
		He is to take charge of a new plan to co-ordinate efforts in loyalist areas, involving intensive talks with elected representatives and civil leaders from the Protestant community.
	www40.thny.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/4266134.stm (727 words)

	Irish Times Article - Stevens report to say RUC collusion was rife (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Collusion between the security forces and loyalist paramilitaries in the North continued unchecked for years because of a culture of "gross unprofessionalism and irresponsibility".
		The report by London's Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir John Stevens, found that in many cases the relationship between RUC Special Branch detectives, army intelligence and loyalist paramilitaries was so unprincipled and lacking in accountability that it bordered on "institutionalised collusion", according to a report in today's Guardian newspaper.
		Collusion between the security forces and loyalist paramilitaries in the North continued unchecked for years because of a culture of "gross unprofessionalism and irresponsibility".
	www.ireland.com /newspaper/front/2002/0614/3827168946HM1STEVENREP.html (665 words)

	Loyalist paramilitaries announce decommissioning go-between (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The IRA and the Loyalist UVF have already met John de Chastelain, the Canadian General who's overseeing the disarmament of paramilitary groups.
		Paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland have long talked in terms of "no surrender" and for some members that is what the hand-over of weapons would be.
		Wednesday's news from the loyalist UFF is another important part of the peace jigsaw.
	www.netlondon.com /news/1999-49/7F9FCADD059ACFF6802.html (287 words)

	The Scotsman - Politics - Reid slams loyalist attacks
		He said a minority of loyalist paramilitaries were waging war against the weakest and most vulnerable people in Northern Ireland.
		Renegade loyalist paramilitaries have declared them "legitimate targets" as schools continue to provide the focal point for this latest outbreak of sectarian violence.
		Mr Reid warned yesterday that the paramilitaries involved in the violence would be pursued relentlessly.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /politics.cfm?id=53682002 (438 words)

	Collusion in the South Armagh / Mid Ulster Area in the mid-1970's
		In order to do so, they needed to know how much truth there was to rumours that have circulated in their area that collusion was suspected between Loyalist paramilitaries and members of the security forces in the attack in which they had lost their loved ones.
		This complex web of colluding members of loyalist paramilitaries and security force personnel created a gang that was able to operate in a large-scale, fatally effective murder campaign in the mid-1970's.
		The UDR gave Loyalist paramilitaries the opportunity to exploit its intelligence, to obtain military training through membership, and to have greater freedom of movement under the guise of acting in the capacity of members of the security forces.
	www.serve.com /~pfc/sarmagh/sarmagh.html (3059 words)

	Slugger O'Toole: IMC: integrity of Loyalist ceasefires under doubt
		Posted by: A.W. at May 24, 2005 12:44 PM An indication of the IMC's true level of independence is their failure to give equal prominence ot the murder of Lisa Dorrian by loyalist paramilitaries, organisations set up in collusion with state forces most nationalists believe, as given to the killing of Robert McCartney.
		Posted by: Comrade Stalin at May 24, 2005 10:44 PM im not saying that unionists arent closely connected with paramilitaries- i think that is obvious enough- im merely talking about the difference between two unfounded murders and how differently they have been treated in the media and through politicians.
		I expect the people who are going to go into government firstly to own up to their paramilitary past, and then state uneqivocally that under no circumstances does any group or organization have the right to try to force change in NI using violence.
	www.sluggerotoole.com /archives/2005/05/imc_integrity_o.php (4965 words)

	Libel case focuses on collusion between security forces and Loyalist paramilitaries in northern Ireland
		Broadcast on October 2, 1991 it alleged that a committee of businessmen, members of the security forces and politicians met with loyalist paramilitaries to discuss the murder of Catholics.
		Nelson was the chief intelligence officer of the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Defence Association who was also found to be working for British Army Intelligence.
		This source, who was later identified as James Sands, claimed insider knowledge of collusion between loyalist paramilitaries and the RUC, right up to senior levels.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/jan2000/eire-j29.shtml (901 words)

	UK State Sponsored Terrorism - The Northern Ireland Conflict
		One of Belfast's senior loyalist paramilitaries was arrested yesterday in connection with the murder of the solicitor Pat Finucane.
		William Stobie, the loyalist paramilitary and police agent whose testimony alleged collusion between British intelligence and loyalist death squads, was shot dead outside his Belfast home yesterday.
		Patrick Finucane was shot dead in February 1989 by Loyalist paramilitaries(1) in Northern Ireland; evidence has emerged of collusion between the paramilitaries and police and military intelligence agents in the killing.
	www.freedomfiles.org /war/ireland/nireland.htm (3162 words)

	RUC Terror
		It was given in the form of an affidavit in February 1999 in support of Sean McPhilemy, the author of The Committee.
		I recall that in 1970 or 1971, while I was serving as a young constable, aged 20, in Strandtown there was an arms amnesty in which members of the public handed in substantial quantities of guns and ammunition of different types.
		Many of these guns were then given out by RUC officers to local members of a Loyalist paramilitary organization, the Ulster Defence Association, with the knowledge of the senior officers in my station.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Senate/1922 (1343 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Fear of all-out war among loyalist paramilitaries as UDA expels Adair
		There were fears last night that a feud between loyalist paramilitaries could explode into violence after the Ulster Defence Association expelled its most notorious member - Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair.
		They accused Mr Adair of using a rift between the UDA and the hardline Loyalist Volunteer Force, to which he is close, to grab more power in the UDA.
		Last month, he was thought to have authorised a punishment shooting of his 18-year-old son, Jonathan, whom the paramilitaries accused of "anti-social behaviour".
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,799120,00.html (559 words)

	Racist leaflet linked to loyalist paramilitaries
		Loyalist paramilitaries have been linked to a racist leaflet distributed in parts of south Belfast this week.
		Security sources have indicated that they believe the UVF may have been behind the leaflets handed out in the Donegall Pass area of the city on Monday.
		He said that the party would be looking to its links with the paramilitary group, and it was not clear if the UVF leadership had approved the leaflet.
	www.4ni.co.uk /industrynews.asp?id=26865 (329 words)

	ante lucem: To develop paramilitary groups in Iraq? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		As he says at the bottom of the post, "This is not an endorsement of this option, it is merely a exploration of what is possible." For my part, I think this would be a viable short term solution which would possibly enable a long term solution.
		That is to say, this would cause its own set of problems, but right now it's looking as if there is no favorable solution in the cards and it is possible that developing loyalist paramilitaries would provide the chance for a solution in the future.
		If the paramilitaries protect people's property too well, meaning if they themselves do not steal or destroy it, then they will be able to maintain power in a warlordist state.
	grant.henninger.name /archives/2004/10/04/to_develop_paramilitary_groups_in_iraq.html (572 words)

	BreakingNews.ie: Loyalist paramilitaries accused of link to Dorrian disappearance
		Loyalist paramilitaries have been accused of involvement in the murder of missing shop assistant Lisa Dorrian.
		A man being escorted into court for his rape trial yesterday stole a deputy’s gun, killed the judge and two other people and carjacked a reporter’s vehicle to escape, setting off a massive manhunt and creating widespread chaos across Atlanta.
		Her body has yet to be recovered but as police intensified their search, the Loyalist Volunteer Force was blamed.
	www.breakingnews.ie /2005/03/12/story193350.html (394 words)

	Alex Jones Presents Infowars.com to Fight the New World Order -- British intelligence helped paramilitaries bomb N. ...
		Last night an independent report by the retired supreme court judge Henry Barron found it was "neither fanciful nor absurd" to suggest members of the security forces in Northern Ireland could have aided and abetted loyalist paramilitaries in bombing the Irish Republic.
		But the judge found that the loyalist paramilitaries, which included members of the Ulster Volunteer Force, were capable of acting alone.
		He found that British intelligence and Special Branch may have hampered the Irish police investigation in order to protect their own relationship with loyalist paramilitaries.
	www.infowars.com /print/planned_terror/ukira.htm (506 words)

	Police Warn People Targeted by Loyalist Paramilitaries 121199 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Police have confirmed that the task of identifying people whose details were found during the investigation into loyalist paramilitaries should be largely complete by the weekend of 13-14 November 1999.
		An RUC spokesman said no-one should underestimate the complexity of the task or the sheer volume of material recovered.
		It may be necessary to go back to some of those advised earlier to update, or add to, the information, they were originally given".
	www.ruc.police.uk /press/1999/nov/loylist.htm (247 words)

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