
	Where results make sense

Topic: Red Hand Defenders

Related Topics

Red Hand Commandos

Northern Ireland

Ulster Defence Association

Ulster Freedom Fighters

Loyalist Volunteer Force

Provisional Irish Republican Army

Portadown

Provisional IRA

Progressive Unionist Party

Maze prison

Ulster Volunteer Force

Good Friday Agreement

Johnny Adair

Irish Republican Socialist Party

John Gregg

In the News (Mon 23 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Red Hand Defenders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Red Hand Defenders (RHD) is an extremist terrorist group formed in 1998 and composed largely of Protestant hardliners from loyalist groups observing a cease-fire.
		The RHD also claimed responsibility for the killing of Rosemary Nelson, a Catholic human rights solicitor, in Lurgan on 15 March 1999.
		The RHD appeared at around the same time as the Orange Volunteers and initially commentators believed that the same people were involved in both paramilitary groups.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Red_Hand_Defenders (476 words)

	Red Hand Defenders (RHD) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		RHD seeks to prevent a political settlement with Irish nationalists by attacking Catholic civilian interests in Northern Ireland.
		RHD has carried out numerous pipe bombing and arson attacks against "soft" civilian targets such as homes, churches, and private businesses to cause outrage in the republican community and to provoke IRA retaliation.
		RHD claimed responsibility for the car-bombing murder on 15 March of Rosemary Nelson, a prominent Catholic nationalist lawyer and human rights campaigner in Northern Ireland.
	www.milnet.com /tgp/tgpdata/rhd.htm (105 words)

	Handing Over: Handy metaphors for the communication of intent
		Red hand: The Red Hand Defenders is an extremist terrorist group formed in 1998 and composed largely of Irish Protestant hardliners from loyalist groups observing a cease-fire; it seeks to prevent a political settlement with Irish nationalists by attacking Catholic civilian interests in Northern Ireland.
		Hands on: Typically this is used to indicate either a literal use of the hands in some practical undertaking, or else a figurative use of the term with reference to direct involvement of some kind in the practical aspects of an initiative (cf J. Engebretson.
		Hand shaking: In contrast there is the use of a handshake in personal greeting or in confirmation of an agreement -- or of extending the hand of peace or the hand of friendship.
	www.laetusinpraesens.org /musings/handed.php (6353 words)

	friendly printed version:In the Spotlight: Red Hand Defenders (RHD)
		The group known as the Red Hand Defenders first came to prominence during the Drumcree crisis in July 1998, when the Protestant Orange Order was banned from marching along its annual parade route in Portadown, Northern Ireland.
		The RHD has also killed several Catholic citizens in sectarian attacks, which the group justifies as avenging “crimes against the loyalist community.” Most of the group’s victims tend to be Catholic because the virtually all of its favored nationalist targets fall into that religious category.
		In 2003, the RHD is thought to have continued with sporadic shootings of Catholics and bombing attacks on public establishments such as bars.
	www.cdi.org /friendlyversion/printversion.cfm?documentID=2737&from_page=../program/document.cfm (1147 words)

	Red Hand Defenders
		The Red Hand Defenders is Loyalist paramilitary group which began to operate in 1998.
		It is thought that the RHD has drawn its members from the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF), and also elements of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF).
		Membership: The RHD and the OV are the most recent Loyalist paramilitary organisations and both came to prominence in 1998.
	www.houstonpk.freeserve.co.uk /redhandpg.htm (249 words)

	Red Orchestra
		The Red Orchestra was the name given to a network of communist, Soviet-affiliated spies during World War II.
		Red Orchestra agents infiltrated the German military intelligence Abwehr headquarters in Paris and successfully tapped its phones.
		The Red Orchestra unit received leaked information and a document relating to the Nazi plan to invade the Soviet Union.
	www.espionageinfo.com /Pr-Re/Red-Orchestra.html (389 words)

	Red Hand Commandos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		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 guerrilla tactics such as bomb-making.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/r/re/red_hand_commandos.html (167 words)

	CNN - New Protestant guerrilla group admits Belfast killing - November 1, 1998
		A caller representing the group known as Red Hand Defenders told British media in Londonderry that the group was responsible for shooting 35-year-old Brian Service as he walked home early on Saturday.
		The Red Hand Defenders came to media attention this summer in Portadown, Northern Ireland's most staunchly Protestant town, where an annual confrontation between Protestant marchers and Catholic protesters triggered widespread violence.
		After police successfully blocked this year's march, the Red Hand Defenders issued death threats against leading Catholic protesters and claimed responsibility for a grenade attack that mortally wounded a police officer.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9811/01/n.ireland.01/index.html (604 words)

	Red Hand Defenders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Red Hand Defenders seeks to prevent a political settlement with Irish nationalists by attacking Catholic civilian interests in Northern Ireland.
		RHD is a cover name often used by elements of the banned UDA and LVF.
		Twice in 2002 the group claimed responsibility for attacks—the murder of a Catholic postman and Catholic teenager—that were later claimed by the UDA-UFF, further blurring distinctions between the groups.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/para/rhd.htm (223 words)

	Holy Cross School
		The Red Hand Defenders (RHD), a cover name that has been used by members of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), said it was responsible for the attack.
		The RHD said they would be killed if they were seen taking their children to the school.
		It was reported that the Red Hand Defenders (RHD), a cover name used by members of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), had renewed its threat against parents taking their children to school.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/Irish_Aires/jiggerna.htm (5221 words)

	Ulster Volunteer Force
		The UVF weaponry is limited to small arms, with its sporadic bombing efforts being made using stolen mining explosives.
		Like most loyalist groups the UVF does not often acknowledge responsibility for murders they commit, the general cover names the Red Hand Commando or the Red Hand Defenders are often used for atrocities committed by either of the major Loyalist groups.
		Estimates on the deaths directly linked to the UVF vary but a figure of around 500 people murdered may be accurate.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/uv/UVF.html (628 words)

	Abraham Lincoln's Assasination and Freemasonry
		It was Serb freemasons in the Black Hand, the precursor of the Mafia, who launched World War I in 1914 when they convinced Gavrillo Princip to assassinate the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in the streets of Sarajevo.
		Red Hand has an objective that remains one and the same with the previous masonic order, the Black Hand-- it is to divide Christianity by asserting Protestantism, and by extention Martin Luther himself, advocated and practiced the same freemasonry he detested.
		It protects an otherwise small group of instigators by asserting itself to a be a part of, and defender of, a religious establishment that neither justifies it or recognizes it formally.
	www.freemasonrywatch.org /lincoln.html (2760 words)

	Newshound: Links to daily newspaper articles about Northern Ireland
		The RHD is largely composed of dissident members of the Red Hand Commandos, a small but deadly group with long time links to the UVF, who left that organisation after threats were made against the life of the Portadown Loyalist, Billy Wright by mainstream Loyalists because of his opposition to the peace process.
		Although the Rosemary Nelson killing was claimed by the Red Hand Defenders it is believed the UDA supplied the sophisticated detonating device which triggered the bomb under her car, Loyalists sources said.
		Leaders of the LVF, the Red Hand Defenders, the Orange Volunteers as well as dissident UDA members and representatives of smaller and rural Loyalist groups are said to have met in the wake of Curry's killing.
	www.nuzhound.com /articles/mal35-21.htm (708 words)

	THE PEACE PAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		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)

	Rosemary Nelson
		The Orange Volunteers and Red Hand Defenders banned by the British government.
		Red Hand Defenders make death threats against leading PUP spokesmen after loyalist Frankie Curry murdered on Shankill Road, Belfast.
		Red Hand Defenders claim responsibility for both bombs.
	www.serve.com /~pfc/rosemary/appendixg.html (594 words)

	CNN.com - N. Irish group claims gun attack - July 20, 2001
		The Red Hand Defenders, a maverick "loyalist" group that said it killed a Roman Catholic man on July 4, warned that it considered all Irish nationalists "legitimate targets."
		A caller to a Belfast television station using a recognised code word claimed the attack on behalf of the Red Hand Defenders.
		The Red Hand Defenders is a banned organisation but security analysts say it is also a cover name that has been used by militants in other "loyalist" guerrilla groups.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/07/20/nireland.shooting/index.html (411 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
		The red hand of Ulster, a symbol commonly associated with Protestants, is utilized by unionists and loyalists to symbolize the six counties of Northern Ireland.
		First emerging in 1998, the RHD is believed to be used by larger loyalist groups to enable members to continue to conduct attacks while their organizations observe ceasefires.
		The RHD emerged at the same time as the Orange Volunteers and is believed to share the same members.
	www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=93 (501 words)

	RTE News - Red Hand Defenders claim pipebomb attack
		The Red Hand Defenders said that they were responsible for two devices, which were left on the windowsill and front door of the house.
		This is the second consecutive day that the North Antrim town has seen a security alert.
		The Red Hand Defenders claimed responsibility for an attempted car-bomb attack yesterday, which disrupted the Auld Lammas Fair.
	www.rte.ie /news/2001/0829/north1.html (423 words)

	N - Appendix C: Background Information on Other Terrorist Groups
		Sustained significant losses at the hands of the Ethiopian military in the late 1990s, and members are now relegated to operating in small cells.
		Adopted the class struggle ideology of the Red Brigades of the 1970s-80s and a similar logo—an encircled five-point star—for their declarations.
		LVF occasionally uses the Red Hand Defenders as a cover name for its actions but in February called for the group’s disbandment.
	www.milnet.com /state/2002/19992.htm (6773 words)

	CNN.com - N Ireland terror group 'disbanded' - January 16, 2002
		The Red Hand Defenders -- which police believe to be a cover name used by, among others, paramilitary group the Ulster Defense Association -- said in a statement they were disbanding as of midnight on Wednesday.
		The Red Hand Defenders said they fatally shot 20-year-old postman Daniel McColgan, at a sorting office in a Protestant area of Belfast on Saturday.
		"They are trying to cover their tracks and distance themselves from what is happening because everybody knows the UFF, the UDA, the Red Hand Defenders are the one and the same group of people whatever name they call themselves.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/01/16/red.hand.defenders (347 words)

	OSAC - Profiled Group Details - Red Hand Defenders (RHD) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The RHD is an extremist terrorist group formed in 1998 and composed largely of Protestant hardliners from Loyalist groups observing a cease-fire.
		Twice in 2002 the group claimed responsibility for attacks -- the murder of a Catholic postman and a Catholic teenager -- that were later claimed by the UDAUFF, further blurring distinctions between the groups.
		The RHD has claimed responsibility for hoax bomb devices, and recently has set off petrol bombs and made death threats against local politicians.
	www.osac.gov /Groups/group.cfm?contentID=1329 (402 words)

	THE BLANKET * Index: Current Articles
		The Red Hand Defenders claimed they were responsibility for the slaying.
		The PSNI claim they are upholding unionists' rights to protest and unionist paramilitary flags and emblems and red white and blue lampposts containing the initials of the Ulster Volunteer Force now surround St Malachy's school.
		But, there is a belief in his community that Murray is not only a scapegoat at the school but that he also serves as a sacrificial lamb for those politicians who are afraid to face up to the loyalist gangs.
	lark.phoblacht.net /antebellumantrim.html (1341 words)

	Red Hand Defenders (RHD) - █ FURTHER READING:
		In July, 2001, the group issued a statement saying it considered all nationalists "legitimate targets." RHD is a cover name often used by elements of the banned Ulster Defense Association and the Loyalist Volunteer Force.
		In recent years, the group has carried out numerous pipe bombings and arson attacks against "soft" civilian targets such as homes, churches, and private businesses, including a bombing outside a Catholic girls school in North Belfast.
		The RHD may have up to 20 members acting in Northern Ireland, some of whom have considerable experience in terrorist tactics and bombmaking.
	www.espionageinfo.com /Pr-Re/Red-Hand-Defenders-RHD.html (227 words)

	BBC News \| Latest News \| LVF link to Red Hand terrorists
		Renegade terrorist group the Red Hand Defenders, which claims to have killed a Catholic man in Belfast, is being linked to the Loyalist Volunteer Force.
		The Red Hand Defenders emerged during the Drumcree crisis this summer when the loyalist Orange Order was banned from marching down its traditional route in Portadown.
		The LVF, formed in 1996, soon established a reputation for ruthlessness, including the murder of a young Roman Catholic girl as she slept beside her Protestant boyfriend.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/events/northern_ireland/latest_news/newsid_205000/205596.stm (442 words)

	UN and world leaders prepare for new showdown with Baghdad New anti-Catholic gang claims responsibility for latest ...
		A caller representing the Red Hand Defenders told the BBC's office in Londonderry that the group fatally shot 35-year-old Brian Service as he walked home alone on Belfast's rough north side.
		The name "Red Hand Defenders" emerged this summer in Portadown, Northern Ireland's most staunchly Protestant town, where an annual confrontation between Protestant marchers and Catholic protesters has triggered widespread violence.
		Police and politicians suspect that the Red Hand Defenders is a cover name for Loyalist Volunteers who oppose the group's May cease-fire.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=9564 (2802 words)

	Senior Protestant militant, friend gunned down in Belfast feud - smh.com.au
		Police and politicians warned Belfast to brace for more bloodshed after a Protestant paramilitary commander and his friend were gunned down as part of an apparent feud within the Ulster Defence Association.
		A Protestant paramilitary group called the Red Hand Defenders issued a statement last night claiming responsibility for the killings.
		Police believe the Red Hand Defenders is a cover name used by, among others, the UDA.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/02/03/1044122321843.html (687 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)