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world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. amanda 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 in 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 horace boyle 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 specials which was a special place hillock thought it existed 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 not 20. declassified documents from british sources from the prime minister's office from the ministry 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. there's no doubt the creation of the else the defense regiment was influence for the british show me boy the experience in the employ of these kinds of locally regimens what controls and commanded by british offices and as any intrinsic paul's of the chain of command rich homie were common through all of the counterinsurgency campaign. there was

a real and genuine hype at the instigation of the regiment that it would be truly crossed me to see would be known 6 hereon in character but it became apparent very quickly that 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. many people from little in this community joined the regiment to get weapons training and to stay the 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 gongs that were disappearing from both our you see and u.d.r. armory and places like. this is like a territorial army and it was our volunteer force in. our

to name but a few. now we have a pictorial of just the devastating effect that one of these going to get out. this is main millimeter starting submachine gong stolen from the r.b.s. on the 20th 24th to man 1991 and subsequently used to kill a lot of people and seriously injure numerous other people and the attacks were these are the people that i. was with the card also shows as is who was used in these columns and here we can see that some of the people who were involved in using these columns were also members of the r.u.c. on the u.d.r. . and we also see as i said who all was killed on one of those people who was killed and one of the force that acts with us was used was with my own father who was killed and on the farms over a bridge. behind. we do not

as a matter of homes as a matter of. looking for process and terrorists that is the demand of the i.o.c. the r.u.c. the police was created in the early 1920 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 british police and. very fraught and fractious relationship with the. 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 attacks on the 1st civil rights marches by the police that actually energies the movement. of 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 protect me on the population of. 10. forced to flee their homes the irish army set up refugee camps along the border which put up the refugees in the north was striking about these attacks was that the r.u.c. 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 1906 the gang attacked a small rural pope called the rock bar near kiddie. approaching the pope they shot a local man called mick mcgrath as he left the building. they then detonated

a nail bomb which failed to explode. what was striking about this particular attack was that all those involved were members of the local police force the are you see some on duty as the attack took place. and summing up and sentencing these police officers the lord chief justice went so far as to claim and i quote that they were trying to rid the land of pestilence but that's the kind of language that nazi shoes but use. 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 off

a man called william strathairn and he had served 7 years in prison. enough. it became available to us in the spring of $9099.00. for the 1st time a way realized that the job of monaghan bombings was linked to so many other attacks north of the border. into the miami show bound. and the castle blaney as well and the merger of john francis korean all of which took place in the republic. in february 2000 and more on judge baron who was conducting a inquiries into the bombings mesh with john mayer in paris the 2 lawyers and myself. said john we are in paris at the same time it was

a separate nation and i know. we arranged for the path an open center to mate with them at that time and. 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 them to put different parts of the jigsaw together and began to understand who were thanks to him and thanks to all the evidence that was becoming available of course he was central to the killing.

of. the special patrol special patrol. section of the or you see. the. terrorists. the death. of this. there are bones. we did not deal with audrey police to tease to the truck to men. who liked that type of auction so it would have attracted officers who would tended to be more militant than the ordinary policeman. who was approached by the armstrong here michel they explained to me god we should take the war to the are your instead of 2nd bag it was i think a lot of people's belief that the all year it was being a lot to operate without much opposition much endurance experience to me they

had already started this by gone gone the bomb attack on the route bar outside. the ostomy the fog would be interested in joining what they were doing. i told them i would need to know more about the ts of course i would be interested but they did explain to me that the war quite a number of people involved. without her meeting was arranged. lawrence material was there. lawrence explained in to me it was on the right he should tell me about a lot of jobs had been gone up until that. such as dublin monaghan bombings. really fees.

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the day or thinks. we dare to ask. some of the our you see men where names were involved over many years and a number of fatal bombings and shootings alongside paramilitaries in the ulster volunteer force they include are you see man william mcarthur a self-confessed killer. also r.u.c. 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 however the only received a suspended sentence are 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 were also names escaped any conviction in the rock bar attack a lower the historical enquiries team a police unit set up to investigate historical murders says he was clearly a principal of fandor in later book penned by armstrong after his release from prison he clearly details his role in the rock bar attack in a chapter called on fulfilled potential. between the middle of night in 72 when the gang has really started its work until the end of 975 that's less than 3 years the guy who killed 89 people. in one month alone in april 9075 the 1st person they killed was dorothy trainer a prostitute 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 portadown a couple of weeks later they blew up a little cottage that was being renovated killing 2 brothers and a sister and the sisters unborn baby girl. and by the end of the month they'd also k. . a man called when 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 in 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 he heard them through the front door and then the baby now so anybody that i had him on the bed. brian who was in the bible as a 5 days post on you he was dead. and them all up into the guts and then john martin he was lyin in a pearl of blood on a field as paul's on on a new it was all the dead. at around the same time gunmen burst into the home of the old guard 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 in barney wood who was hit a number of times his brother joe who attempted to charge the gunman was killed instantly. while i was shot 1st and they are. as fun mayor are. on day by the time i knew. the body was dead. because. he was in the ring at every were in. but i crawled out into the hallway. back to the body was left and there are 3 of you here well as an intensive care of course i was there for a week. the doctor here marar not mourning it. has years should be real hey if things are banned according to logic if you shouldn't be here

. because of a ball of go and step for your heart. for noble perjury and the word they used. the word no they're both are grossly nor muscle to stop it but it took that 90 percent turn and took great kidney with it. as the smoke settled 3 members of the old guard family into revie brothers and they dead 17 year old anthony revie died later in hospital. for 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 it's on board moaned on most

of us like. policemen who arrived shortly afterwards told of bodies piled on top of one another. the gore and the personal effects give a hint of a conic. when we met shown we're in paris one of the burning questions we had is why he and the others in the gang and the retaliated for the king's will massacre. as for was chilling he told us there was a plan and the plan mostly 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 and a been planted that milledge intelligence wanted the situation to spiral out of control and this was too much for the e.v.f. and they refused to go ahead even for them it was a step too far. the

plot. that was decided on. was to shoot top. of school. in police. just on the outskirts of leaks. so we say sure don't screw curing show the procedure of the screw children teachers yes. yes. they're into losers ready ready. yes i do indeed yes i do indeed. move. if that's hard hop and. i think there is nearly died. there would have been

a shocking retaliation. from the republican side. retaliation from the republican side. it would have eventually in a fairly short time i should say they told us quite the contrary into. prop. our civil war situation i think the country was almost already in the cell for the 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.l.e. accompanied by an assistant chief constable at their headquarters. we asked them.

what they intended to but the fact that a former police sergeant william a cry out about it publicly that he was also part of the plan to kill 30 children. and their teachers. there was a pause they looked at each other. in. tension for doing anything. to be real he wasn't to be arrested. to be reinvestigated nothing would happen. and i think at that moment after we left. we talked about it and we realized that where else in europe a former police officer matti a plan to kill a large number of children and a school 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. and was spinning out of

control. war could not be ruled out. amongst the options he considered were dried withdraw and. if the people of the north were on governable he could not go. in an atmosphere of near panic wilson called a council of war at his official country retreat checkers in the peaceful countryside. also present was the secretary of state for defense. and the secretary of state for northern ireland race on the security side 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. one where all out war could be waged on the ira. in the meantime the glennon gang were slaughtering anyone but. 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 car bombs and the other this was a people who were targeted or watched chased hunted. or at their home and we discovered to our surprise that every single one of those bar one. people were making something of their lives they were ordinary people and then we asked ourselves why why these people. and the theory we came to was that frank kitson in his classic manual of counterinsurgency operations rhodes 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 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 we've reached as an understanding of collusion was. illegal cooperation. cooperation between members of the security forces. sometimes as. turkey in the 1980 s. and ninety's. there was no crime of collusion. but clearly it with criminal acts by police officers. been a phenomenon through at the. collusion of many. years deniable 3rd forces in order to carry current or insurgency.

i think the rule of oil is. they did what the security forces felt that they couldn't do because and theory they were for the rule of law and so they could use deniable 3rd forces to do it for the. wrong. call. me. yet to say proud trail. when so many find themselves while the part. of the for common ground. who poured over here they use are being used. for

storage. or. we've gotten pretty yeah. i just can't you know pretty girl would just be you know yet spoiled so to. just be there to give the word for it but. these are the stories of men who contemn magine life without fashion without a sense of style without things that might be seen as weakness in this masculine world but they still demonstrate incredible strength of spirit to live as they choose. for. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race in.

very dramatic development only personally. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk. it turns away and since us printing shop black man in the back in the city of triggering unrest but also a pre-election opportunity to buy both the democrats and the republican. the media and officials point the finger at the kremlin over what they call the poisoning of prominent opposition activists. despite limited medical evidence and russian doctors finding no trace of toxic in his system and also in the week just. feeds the grieving parents.