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	Red Hand Commandos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Red Hand Commandos (originally known simply as the "Red Hand Commando") are a Northern Ireland loyalist paramilitary (terrorist) group with links to the Ulster Volunteer Force.
		The RHC was formed in 1972 and had its most support in east Belfast, particularly in the Sandy Row area, and parts of County Down.
		The UVF and Red Hand Commando supported the signing of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and maintained a ceasefire from 1994 until the autumn of 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Red_Hand_Commandos (203 words)

	Gardai cover-up
		As revealed in last week's edition Seamus Ludlow's killers were three members of a Red Hand Commando unit, two of whom were officers in the British Army's Ulster Defence Regiment, who drove across the Border on the night of May 1st, 1976 to carry out the killing.
		The failure of the RUC to bring charges either now or in the past has fuelled speculation that at least one of the Red Hand Commandos was a security force agent and that the killing was covered up in 1976 in order to protect an informer.
		This raises the intriguing possibility that if there was an informer in the midst of the Red Hand Commando unit he may have been working for British military intelligence rather than the police.
	www.serve.com /~pfc/ludlow/slstrib15398.htm (1495 words)

	Irish American Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Leaders of the UVF and the Red Hand Commando issued a statement saying their ceasefire was in danger.
		In a statement to the BBC the UVF and Red Hand Commando warned their commitment to the peace process was under strain, and they blamed the IRA for what they call 'the current dearth of confidence in the process'.
		Yesterday the UVF and Red Hand Commando spoke of their commitment to the peace process being under strain, but made clear there was no imminent threat to their ceasefire.
	www.gaelicweb.com /irishampost/year2003/02jan-feb/news/news06.html (5553 words)

	THE PEACE PAGE
		Now, rather than throw my hands up in the air and say "I give up!" like a lot of people do.....and I did the same thing when I was a kid....and say that there is no point in doing anything I would like to keep the world..well...
		Red Hand Defenders Recently formed and responsible for at least one murder and a number of gun attacks
		Red Hand Commandos - ceasefire in operation - also refer to U.V.F. Ulster Defence Association - ceasefire in operation (This is the page of the political wing of the U.D.A. The Ulster Democratic Party - research continuing)
	www.angelfire.com /ky/holywood/page5.html (1178 words)

	RUC cover-up
		Two weeks ago he and the three former Red Hand Commando members were arrested and questioned about the killing by RUC detectives.
		The three Red Hand Commandos were on the other side of the bar talking amongst themselves.
		Two days later the UDR Captain approached Hosking and warned him that unless he joined the Red Hand Commandos he would be killed because of what he had seen.
	www.serve.com /pfc/ludlow/slstrib8398.htm (2216 words)

	Red Hand Commandos
		The Red Hand Commandos (originally known simply as the "Red Hand Commando") are a Northern Ireland loyalist paramilitary group.
		The group has claimed responsibility for the car bomb murder on 15 March, 1999 of Rosemary Nelson, a prominent Catholic lawyer and human rights campaigner in Northern Ireland.
		The government of the United States believes that the Red Hand Commandos have up to 20 members, some of whom have considerable experience in geurrilla tactics such as bomb-making.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/red_hand_commandos (193 words)

	United Kingdom: Political killings in Northern Ireland
		The soldier claimed that his hands were wet and accidentally slipped onto the trigger of a machine gun he was holding.
		The three were tied around the feet, their hands bound behind their backs and then were beaten on the ankles, knees and elbows.
		In August 1993 the Red Hand Commandos warned that Irish traditional music was part of the "pan-nationalist front" and warned that it would bomb bars and hotels which held folk music nights (including in the Republic of Ireland).
	www.amnestyusa.org /countries/united_kingdom/document.do?id=BC02DED98184FEBB802569A60060440A (18987 words)

	Irish Echo Online - News
		The Red Hand Commandos, the organization that tried to murder the McAllister family in 1988 and the one allegedly behind a recent threat against them, is one of the most sinister and bloodthirsty in Northern Ireland.
		The RHC was responsible for several bombing attacks on pubs, including one in Dundalk and at least one gruesome torture murder.
		While she was high on of drugs and alcohol, RHC members tortured her, before murdering her and dumping her body in a garbage bin.
	www.irishecho.com /newspaper/story.cfm?id=14052 (817 words)

	CNN Specials - Northern Ireland
		Following the defeat of the Catholic James II (1685-88) by the Protestant William of Orange (1689-1702) at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, most of the land in Ireland was handed over to Protestant control.
		While the major paramilitary groups have for the moment laid aside their weapons, splinter factions such as the republican Real IRA and loyalist Red Hand Commandos have failed to call a ceasefire.
		The loyalist paramilitary group Red Hand Commandos is among the splinter factions that have not declared a ceasefire
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2000/n.ireland/overview.html (1060 words)

	One cannot think of Ireland nowadays without having images of violence and thoughts of religious conflict in their head
		Now, after Britain has put the future of Northern Ireland in the hands of the Irish, it is faced with the challenge of establishing a new government.
		Today, additional loyalist groups, such as the UVF (Ulster Volunteer Force), the UFF (Ulster Freedom Fighters), and the Red Hand Commandos, are also at the forefront of the fight to uphold British ties and increase Protestant representation of Northern Ireland in parliament (FAIT, 1998).
		Republicans, on the other hand, are those who fight for a united Ireland (a joining between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) ("Groups").
	www.maxwell.syr.edu /maxpages/classes/psc124_300/group1/kristinireland.html (2089 words)

	List of militant organizations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Very closely linked with the Red Hand Commandos (1972-present).
		Red Army Faction (popularly known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang) - Germany (founded 1967, disbanded)
		Red Brigades (Brigade Rosse) - Italy (founded 1969)
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Terrorist_groups (1686 words)

	Ireland Ours
		Sent: 2/12/2004 12:35 AM This one is not in the news at the moment, but has been linked to the Barron report and the families of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings have united their search for justice with the Ludlow family's search for the truth.
		Seamus was mudered by the Red Hand Commando's (a branch of the UDA), the names of the killers are known and one of them is named in one of the web links, I will give here.
		It should be understood that 4 members of the Red Hand Commandos were invovled and at the time of the murder 2 of them were serving members of the UDR (a British Army regiment), it is widely believed that the Garda helped/covered up in this case.
	groups.msn.com /IrelandOurs/politicsnews.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=14243&LastModified=4675476731592984304 (1105 words)

	Articles - Dog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		On the other hand, dogs are natural carnivores, and the experience of extremely stressful conditions such as the Iditarod race, as well as scientific studies of similar conditions, suggest that under such extreme stress, high protein diets (which implies a lot of meat consumption) help prevent damage to muscle tissue.
		Red: Reminiscent of reddish woods such as cherry or mahogany; also tawny, chestnut, orange, rusty, liver, and red-gold.
		Two-color coats, such as Black and tan, red and white: Coat has both colors but in clearly defined and separated areas; usually the top and sides are darker and lower legs and underside are the lighter color.
	www.cat-center.com /articles/Dogs (7092 words)

	Casino Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		600 civilians also died at the hands of the IRA, mostly Catholics.
		Scappaticci denies that this is the case and is taking legal action to challenge this claim.
		The PIRA is described as a terrorist organisation by the governments of the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain, Germany and Italy, the latter three of which have alleged the existence of IRA links with terrorist organisations within their own jurisdictions including ETA and the Red Brigades.
	www.casinoencyclopedia.com /index.php?title=Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army (3997 words)

	For the Record
		Leaders of the UVF and UFF/UDA British-backed death squads were reported to be behind the new loyalist group which announced that it intends to execute members of the Provisionals' military and political organisations.
		MARCH 13, 1996: Jaqueline Toland from Derry received a death-threat through the post allegedly from the Red Hand Commandos loyalist death squad.
		Gary McMichael, leader of the UDP, claimed that the Combined Loyalist Military Command (CLMC) which was an umbrella term for the UDA, UVF and Red Hand Commandos has broken down.
	www.freewebs.com /saoirse/record/record05.htm (3167 words)

	Nonviolent News 114: Novembe 2003, Billy King
		However, a silver hand was fashioned for him and the power of ancient magic was used to cause flesh and sinew to grow back around the prosthesis.
		The third explanation is that the red hand symbol is associated with ”the son of Bolg or Nuadu, the Sun God of the Celts, and by some accounts the divine progenitor of all Celts.
		The son was known as Labraid Lámhdhearg (Labraid of the Red Hand).
	www.innatenonviolence.org /old/billy/billyk114.htm (2422 words)

	MAGILL - Murder, Collusion and Lies
		The gunman was also in the red Hand Commandos and has long been suspected of being an agent or informer for the British military.
		All three belonged to the outlawed UVF and had overlapping membership of its Loyalist offshoot, the Red Hand Commandos.
		Meanwhile, an interesting message of sympathy for the family of the recently murdered Red Hand Commando Frankie Currie appeared in the Belfast Telegraph on 19 March.
	freespace.virgin.net /m.donegan/magill0499.htm (3357 words)

	Guardian \| Drug baron's assets frozen
		Alan McQuillan, head of the assets recovery agency, now has control of bank accounts and up to a dozen houses that were owned by Jim "Jonty" Johnston who, in May, was shot dead outside his £500,000 home near the village of Crawfordsburn, Co Down.
		Johnston, 45, was a leading member of the Red Hand Commandos, a terror group linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force, and his murder was part of a power struggle with rival loyalists for control of the narcotics trade.
		The operation is a coup for Mr McQuillan, who was one of Northern Ireland's most senior police officers before he took the reins of the province's branch of the UK-wide agency nine months ago.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4750905-103588,00.html (338 words)

	RTE News: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It is understood that the victim had been expelled from the Red Hand Commandos, the smallest organisation within mainstream Loyalism, which called a ceasefire along with the UDA and the UVF in 1994.
		His name had been linked to the dissident Loyalist group, the Red Hand Defenders, but the organisation that admitted responsibility of killing Rosemary Nelson has denied he was a member.
		The Progressive Unionist Party's David Ervine said that he has spoken with paramilitary figures since returning from Washington and was certain that neither the UVF nor the Red Hand Commandos were involved.
	www.rte.ie /news/1999/0320/print/loyalist.html (200 words)

	CHRONOLOGY 1993
		The Red Hand Commando wounded a Catholic man and a boy in a gun attack on a car on the M2 near Belfast.
		The Red Hand Commando destroyed a Gaelic Athletic Association club in Glengormley, Co Antrim, in an arson attack.
		The Red Hand Commando said it would bomb bars or hotels which held folk nights, claiming the music was part of the "pan-nationalist front".
	www.uhb.fr /Langues/Cei/chron93.htm (22547 words)

	Newshound: Daily Northern Ireland news catalog - Irelandclick.com article
		One was those set up as citizens' associations for social or religious purposes and which were infiltrated by British agents for their war effort.
		The second was those which were not natural growths from the Protestant population but had been set up specially by British spying services, for example the Red Hand Commandos.
		Those of the third kind were those which had been set up by citizens for social or other benign purposes and had not been infiltrated by these agents.
	www.nuzhound.com /articles/Irelandclick/arts2003/apr24_where_blame_lies__DWilson.php (937 words)

	jim_kane
		Hosking gives his report to the RUC Special Branch a full account of the murder, including the name of the person who he said did the actual shooting, and yet it was not until 1998, a year after the case was reopened that the four were arrested for this murder.
		Hosking stated the murder was carried out by three (3) UDR soldiers who were also members of the Loyalist Red Hand Commandos, and he also stated in the National Press that the Garda were aware of their identities in 1979.
		The decision by the Northern Director of Public Prosecutions not to press charges over the murder brings a very strong belief by many that there has been a cover up by both the Garda and the RUC for over two decades.
	www.seamusludlow.com /support/jim_kane.htm (814 words)

	CNN Specials - Democracy in America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Splinter groups such as the loyalist "Red Hand Commandos" and the republican "Real IRA" are resisting the deal, each believing that its side is giving up too much.
		Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak both contend with the political pressures of the moment and with a lengthy history of conflict.
		In June, as Koreans basked in the euphoria of a landmark summit that saw the leaders of the North and South shake hands for the first time, they also faced the 50th anniversary of the war that drove a wedge of hostility deep across the middle of the peninsula.
	youth.woodlandpark.org /SPECIALS/2000/democracy/bigger.picture/stories/solvable (868 words)

	SAOIRSE Irish Freedom October 1998
		The family of Dundalk man, Séamus Ludlow found murdered in a country lane south of the border with Armagh in 1976 not only have to cope with the grief of his death, but also a cover-up and scurrilous flening of his name by 26-County police.
		A number of human rights groups have expressed interest in the case demanding that the perpetrators of the crime be brought to justice.
		The eye witness, Paul Hosking, revealed that he had been drinking in a Cumber, Co Down bar with three Red Hand Commandos — two of them UDR men — when they decided to head across the border into Co Louth and abducted Séamus Ludlow as he walked home.
	homepage.eircom.net /~eirenua/oct98/saoirse3.htm (2688 words)

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		Indeed this was the justification used by the Red Hand Commandos, a cover name for the UDA, for the attack on the bar.
		After the attack Nelson McCausland, a sectarian bigot and member of the DUP and councillor for the area called not for the prosecution of the attackers but for the demolition of the pub.
		The very fact that there were people from this area still in the premises when this diabolical act of lunacy was carried out clearly shows the utter contempt and ingrown sectarianism that these disciples of evil have for the decent people of this community.
	www.morrigan.net /irsm/plough55.htm (2994 words)

	Dictionary red
		, redness -- the quality or state of the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
		, Red River -- a tributary of the Mississippi River
		-- (of wine) deep reddish in color; "a red wine such as a claret or burgundy"; "a pinot noir is a red burgundy"
	www.dictionarydefinition.net /red.html (229 words)

	Chronology - Page 4
		The writer, who gave his name as Seamus Doherty, was so incensed by the Ludlow campaign's statement of the facts that he just had to unburden himself and vent his vitriolic hatred for all who seek truth and justice for the victims of state killings.
		Doherty alleges that the Ludlow family are smearing people by citing "the alleged killers as 'UDR/Red Hand Commandos'", when in fact this claim originates not with the Ludlow family, but with the Gardai, the RUC and, not forgetting, the alleged "witness", Mr.
		who dwells in a state of whataboutery, and for whom the splendid Red Hand Commando and UDR killers of Seamus Ludlow are not the "real enemies of Ulster".
	www.michael.donegan.care4free.net /chronology4.htm (4943 words)

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