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depths. or a maybe in the shallows. a man that margaret found it impossible to touch the man she witnessed shooting her husband at point blank range was robin jackson. jackson was a portadown loyalist who became one of the conflicts most prolific killers. he was also an r.u.c. agent nicknamed the jackal. 5 days before pat campbell's murder a man whose home police had found 64 kilograms of explosives 2 grenades and over 5000 rounds of assorted ammunition. had named jackson as his accomplice.

however police failed to arrest jackson meanwhile he is of liberty to murder part campbell. jackson of being a member of the ulster defense regiment then the largest regiment in the british army. he was later involved in the massacre of the miami showband in july 975 when 3 band members were killed by members of the clan and gang as they attempted to plant a bomb on the musician's boss. loyalist paramilitaries hire a spoil and wesley somerville were killed instantly as the bomb exploded prematurely. well the ulster defense regiment was the largest regiment in the british army it was geographically recruited here and the north of ireland and it only served here in the north of ireland it was essentially a counterinsurgency unit that was set up the big end of the troubles. that itself

took over from the discredit the special switch was a special place phillip that exists that since the 1920 s. . and it was clear from the outset that the u.d.r. was set up to recruit from within the loyalist on the unionist community. they were almost entirely drawn from within the community. declassified documents from british sources from the prime minister's office from the minister of defense secretary of state's office make it quite shockingly clear that from the perspective of the british government it was acceptable to recruit someone into the regiment who was an octave loyalist paramilitary who was a member of a loyalist paramilitary group. this is no doubt that the creation of the else the defense regiment was influence for the british show me boy the experience in the empire these kinds of locally right east regimens. what controls mom did by british

offices and any intrinsic palls of the chain of command rich homie were common through all of the counterinsurgency campaign. there was a real and genuine at the instigation. that it would be truly crossed me to see would be known 6 hereon in character but it became apparent very quickly that was not going to be the case and the british army was willing to live with the consequences which was that this would be in many ways a sectarian regiment. many people from little in this community joined the regiment to get weapons training and to steal weapons and according to the official documents that we funded the u.d.r. it was the largest single source of modern weapons flowing to the loyalist paramilitary groups it was a recipe for disaster. and one of the things we noticed whenever we started to do the research was the large numbers of guns that were disappearing from both our you

see and u.d.r. armories and places like. this is like the territorial army and it was our volunteer force. him her to name but a few. now we have a pictorial of just the devastating effect that one of these columns get out of this is 9 millimeter starting submachine gun stolen from. the 20th 24th the man 1991 and subsequently used to kill 11 people and seriously injured numerous other people and the attacks were these are the people that i. was with the charge also shows is who was using these columns and here we can see that some of the people who were involved in using these columns were also members of the are you see on the u.d.r. . we can also see as the who all was killed on one of those people who was killed and one of the force that acts with us on. it was with my own father who was killed

and on the farms over a bridge. we do not as a matter of course as a matter of course a brief charles looking for process and terrorists that is the domain of the i.o.c. they are you see the police was created in the early one $920.00 s. at the same time as the state of northern ireland was created and it reflected the contested nature of the state it was almost 93 percent drawn from one community and as a both part time element on a full time element there was a militarized force from the outset it was framed on the colonial model of credit. and that's how the very fraught and fractious relationship with the catholic and nationalist community. as a nonviolent civil rights movement korean force in the late 1960 s.

it was the reaction of the r.u.c. to the absolutely and the attacks on the 1st civil rights marches by the police that actually energies the movement mobilized people unless the fuse for the conflict at the time. then in the 1960 s. and 1969 in particular we had a situation where there was coordinated loyalist attacks protectee on the catholic population of belfast tens of thousands forced to flee their homes the irish army set up refugee camps along the border which put up the refugees flee in the north and what was striking about these attacks was that they are you see the police actually took part in the attacks on the catholic community and belfast at the time . so instead of preventing them they were active participants in the burning of whole streets in belfast at the time. on the 5th of june. 76 the gang attacked

a small pope called the rock bar near kiddie. gras as he left the building. they then detonated a little bomb which failed to explode. about this particular type was that all those involved were members of the local police force the r.u.c. . duty as the attack took place. on and sensing these police officers the lord chief justice went so far as to claim . that they were trying to rid the law of pestilence but that's the kind of language that nazi shoes to choose.

a very important landmark for the campaign and 999 was the fact that we acquired they. was a former sergeant and they are you say he had been convicted of the marge are all of a man called william strathairn and he had served 7 years in prison and prepared enough outlining the activities of that land. it became available to us in the spring of $9099.00. for the 1st time really away realised that the job of monaghan bombings was linked to so many other attacks north of the border. into the miami show about and. it was linked to the dog and the cast of play and. the merger of john francis korean all of which took place in the republic. in february 2000 and more. judge baron who was conducting the inquiries into that

album on who bombings mash with john mayer and paris. and myself also mesh with said john we are in paris at the same time and that was a separate nation and i know. a ranch for the pappano consented to arrange with them at that time as well. i think that the significance of the meeting with we're also we were able to test his offer to be able to test the evidence that we put out there and put detailed questions to him we spent several days with him to put different parts of the jigsaw together and began to understand what it was we were kind of thanks to him and thanks to all the evidence that was becoming available course he was central to the killing so it was not a fatal me. a

member of our special patrol group special patrol. section of the or you see. the the anti terrorist squad the death to drive of the story. we did not deal with more than 3 police to teach us to the truck to. be like the type of auction is so it would have attracted officers who would tend to be more militant than the ordinary policeman. who was approached by. it so they explained to me. we should take the war to the are you really scared of. it was i think

a lot of people's belief that the our your it was being allowed to operate without much opposition much endurance the experience to me they had already started this by to do gone gone bomb attack on the rug bar outside. the asked me if i would be interested in joining what they were doing. i told them i would need to know more about it yes of course i would be interested but they did explain to me that the war quite a number of people involved. after the art of meeting was arranged and laurence mcclure was there. lawrence explained to me it was on the right he should tell me about a lot of jobs had been gone up and told that.

surcharge stockland monaghan bombings. re fees. for bridge. bar bombing and shooting. him in. argentina love it this country is phantasmagorical the people are extraordinary the government and the central bank maybe not so much thinking though that the central bank bill is going to there's a lot of more detail. you know world of big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever

we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other that it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. so move the are you see man we are names were involved over many years in a number of fatal bombings and shootings alongside paramilitaries in the ost of all interior force they include are you see man william of coffee a self-confessed killer. also are you see reserve constable lawrence mcclure police to be one of the gangs most experienced bomb makers who was convicted of causing an explosion and possession of firearms at the rock bar for which are ever the only received a suspended sentence or you see constable in mitchell was also convicted of causing

an explosion at the rock bar and possession of firearms but similarly only received a suspended sentence gerry armstrong who we are also names escaped any conviction in the rock bar attack a low the historical enquiries team a police unit set up to investigate historical murders says he was clearly a principal of fandor in later books penned by armstrong after his release from prison. he clearly details his role in the rock attack in a chapter called. fulfilled potential. between the middle of 1972 when the guy really started its work until the end of 975 that's less than 3 as the guy had killed 89 people. in one month alone in april 9075 fastpass and they killed was dorothy trainer a protestant woman walking home with

a catholic husband through portadown. within 3 days they'd killed martin mcveigh who was murdered as he cycled home from work in the same town. a couple of weeks later they blew up a little cottage that was being renovated killing 2 brothers and a sister and the sister's unborn baby girl. and by the end of the month they'd also killed a man called owen boyle who had been sitting at his kitchen table looking at photographs of his newborn baby girl so there in just one month in one small geographical area you had 4 separate attacks in which 7 people were killed these attacks were remorseless and they ratcheted up the pressure until the end of 975 when a completely new development took place. as with previous attacks the modus operandi of the gang was to strike 2 targets almost simultaneously. in

a white cross country the revie family sat down to watch a popular t.v. show when gunmen entered the family home 24 year old john martin was hit as he sat in his chair while 22 year old brian was shot in the back trying to escape into a nearby bedroom. anthony the youngest brother dived underneath the bed for cover before the gunmen sprayed the bed with bullets. a little while later on buried them through the door. undead mentor the guy on the spade now sandy badger and i had him on the bad and i was here at pozen brian who was in the bible as a 5 days post on you he was dead. on the adi c'mon up into the kits and then on john martin he was lyin in a pearl of blood on a felt his paws on it on a new it was all the dead. at around the same time gunmen burst into the home of the family only 17 miles away and barely dog and country done. again the intention

was to wipe out an entire family. as they rushed their way into the house they opened fire and barney wood who was his a number of times his brother joe who attempted to charge the gunman was killed instantly. but i was shot 1st and many are. spun me around and. on day by that time i knew. the body was dead. because. he was in the ring at a we were in. but i crawled out into the hallway. back to the body was laying there too you get a well as an intensive care of course and was there for a week. the doctor here marar not mourning it. has years should be real hey if things are banned to cordon logic is safe you shouldn't

be here. because those are a ball of go one step for your car. for no perjury and then the word they used. the word now they're both grossly nor more special to stop what but it took at 90 percent term and took great kidney with. as the smoke settled 3 members of the old guard family in to review. others and they dead 17 year old anthony revie died later in hospital. from the men's killings was swift brutal. the following evening a minibus of textile workers was stopped by members of the ira in king's mills not far from the review home where the killings had taken place the night before. these pictures tell the story of the horror that followed. up to 20 gunman surrounded the minibus it's catholic driver taken to safety the bus of the on board moaned on most

of us like. place one who arrived shortly afterwards told of bodies piled on top of one another. the gore of the personal effects give a hint of a conic. when we met joan we're in paris one of the burning questions we had is why he and the others in the gang and not retaliated for the king's will massacre as on so was chilling he told us there was a plan and the plan was to attack a primary school to kill all the children in the school to kill the teachers we asked him why it didn't go ahead and he told us because the u.v.'s leadership in belfast believed that the plan came from army headquarters came from military intelligence a being planted the military intelligence wanted the whole situation to spiral out of control and this was too much for the e.v.f. and they refused to call him even for them it was

a step too far. the plot. that was decided on. was to shoot top were a school. in police. just on the outskirts of leaks. so we. say sure don't screw curing the procedure and children taters yes. yes. there in those. yes i do indeed yes they do indeed. move 'd. if they are to hide hard and. i think there is little doubt.

there would have pain or shock in retaliation. from the republican side. retaliation from the republican side. bought it would have eventually. in a fairly short time i should say they told us quite the contrary into. our civil war situation i think the country was almost already in a civil war situation but if that happened. even the moderates. on both sides were going to have to take sides and there was going to be. there was going to be a serious serious civil war. we had a meeting with the chief constable the most senior police officer and the p.s. i accompanied by an assistant chief constable at their headquarters and we asked

them. what they intended to but the fact that a former police sergeant william mcarthur out about it publicly that he was also part of the plan to kill 30 children out of school and their teachers. there was a pause they looked at each other and they told us that nothing is going on and there was no intention of doing anything that wasn't to be real he wasn't to be arrested the person. to be reinvestigated nothing would happen. and i think at that moment after we left the building we talked about it and we realized that where else in europe would a former police officer to plan to kill a large number of children in a school this former employer would say that he had no plans to reinterview him as a result. of dunning street in london the british prime minister harold wilson was faced with what he called himself an apocalyptic crisis northern ireland was

spinning out of control and civil war could not be ruled out. amongst the options he considered were a dried withdraw and self government if the people of the north were on governable he could not govern them. in an atmosphere of near panic wilson called a council of war at his official country to treat checkers in the peaceful buckinghamshire countryside. also present was the secretary of state for defense roy misson and the secretary of state for northern ireland in race on the security side the team was headed by so david house the general officer commanding northern aren't. well wilson attempted to control the worsening situation the hawks within british military intelligence hoped for a different outcome. where all out war could be waged on the ira. in the meantime the glennon gang were slaughtering anyone but republican targets. so we

asked ourselves why why these people and we drew up 2 lists one was a people who are unlucky enough to be caught up in indiscriminate harben cobhams and the other this was a people who were targeted or watched chased hunted at their work or at their home and we discovered to our surprise that every single one of those bar one. self starters people were. making something of their lives they were ordinary people and then we asked ourselves why why these people. and the ferry we came to was that frank kitson in his classic manual of counterinsurgency operations roads that if you can't catch the fish either by rod or net then poison the water and author areas that these ordinary people were targeted to persuade other ordinary people to repudiate the ira to withdraw support from the ira course didn't

work had the opposite effect violence begets violence if people can't trust the law they would take the law into their own hands it was completely counterproductive as well as illegal and immoral i think the stage we've reached as an understanding of . what it meant. illegal cooperation. cooperation between members of the security forces loyalist paramilitary groups sometimes as hard. and sometimes as hard and on a more structural level in the 1980 s. and ninety's. there was no crime of collusion in the. criminal acts by police officers or soldiers and it's been a phenomenon throughout the troubles. collusion of many. years deniable 3rd forces in order to insurgency.

i think the rule of law here. they did what the security forces felt that they couldn't do because and theory they were by the rule of law and so they could use deniable 3rd forces to do it for the. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line and they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to try to cross the survival of 43 of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how this. question.

during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember there was and most of my family were unemployed working class other wasn't it was bed you know much worse objective listen today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. of there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america was shaped by the 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solo doubt to engineer elections manufacture consent and other principles according to no on chomsky one set of rules for the rich opposite. that's what happens when you put her into the hands of a narrow sector of will switch rule is dedicated to increasing power for itself just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks

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