#IRA: Pat Finucane: Secret footage :Ken Barret, a UDA member and British agent talks about the murder of Solicitor Patrick Finucane. What Barret did not realise was that the man who gave the order to have Mr.Finucane murdered, Jim Spence, was also a British Agent

#IRA: Shoot to Kill : Lurgan Funerals.

#IRA: #Freemasons ousted John Stalker (a non mason) from shoot to kill inquiry !

Byline: SONIA PURNELL

MPs yesterday gave new credence to suspicions of a masonic plot to oust John Stalker from the shoot-to-kill inquiry in Ulster.

The powerful Commons Home Affairs Committee confirmed for the first time that masons were 'prominently involved' in one of the biggest police controversies of recent times.

Two of the seven high-ranking officers involved were or had been masons, it revealed.

It said it could not entirely exclude claims that Freemasonry 'played a significant part' in the removal of Mr Stalker, then deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester.

Mr Stalker was appointed to head the investigation into … read more

http://business.highbeam.com/5900/article-1G1-109749044/masons-may-have-plotted-oust-stalker-say-mps

#IRA: Bloody Sunday compensation could open door for other payouts

Families of those killed on all sides during the Troubles may take up civil claims once this precedent is set

Belfast in 1978. Victims of state violence and paramilitaries on both sides during the Troubles may now seek compensation. Photograph: Alex Bowie/Getty Images

 

Costing nearly £200m, the Bloody Sunday investigation was the most expensive and longest running inquiry in British legal history.

Amounting to millions of words the inquiry laid out in scientific detail the minute by minute events on that fateful day in January 1972 which led to the biggest massacre of civilians by the British military since Peterloo.

The shooting dead of 13 unarmed civilians (a 14th died in hospital) following a civil rights march left an indelible scar on the city and drove hundreds, perhaps thousands of young recruits into the arms of the Provisional IRA.

For three decades, the families of those who died fought a dogged campaign to clear the names of the victims and to establish an internationally recognised tribunal into the atrocity carried out by the Parachute Regiment.

But when David Cameron stood up in the House of Commons in June 2010 and roundly condemned the killings labelling them "wrong", his historic statement seemed to draw some kind of line under the past. The fact that it was a Conservative prime minister who had acknowledged the innocence of those that died on Bloody Sunday was all the more poignant given that it was a previous Tory government under Ted Heath that had ordered the paratroopers into Derry's Bogside that day.

Now the Ministry of Defence has said that it will be compensating those families and victims still around after nearly four decades. On a practical level the compensation process may be complicated because many of those wounded on Bloody Sunday are dead and even some relatives of those killed have themselves passed away.

The figures available will of course be much more than the hundreds of pounds the army paid out back in the 1970s to some of the families without the military accepting any blame. Moreover, the payouts will focus wider attention on other potential compensation areas – eg from victims of state violence during the Troubles. Those directly injured or who had loved ones shot dead by the British army may also seek recompense once the Bloody Sunday payouts commence. That picture would be complicated further if the families of those killed by loyalist paramilitaries seek compensation. Those who argue that the police or army colluded or helped the loyalists target them or their loved ones could also sue the state once this precedent is set.
On the other side, some victims of terrorist organisations have attempted to sue suspected paramilitary leaders in the civil courts most notably the families of the Omagh bomb victims. They successfully used a landmark civil action against several Real IRA suspects whom they were able to name and shame through the courts. Although in this case the Omagh families were less concerned with compensation but rather a desire to get to the truth about the 1998 massacre — the single biggest of the Troubles.

Separately, there have also been moves by victims injured in IRA bombs and attacks to sued the now-toppled regime of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Libya over the dictators' logistical support for the IRA. It is expected the new Libyan government will compensate these victims in the near future.

Finally, the prospect of Martin McGuinness as president of Ireland following October's election in the Republic also holds out an interesting prospect. Were the former IRA chief-of-staff to become president, would unionist victims of the IRA seek retrospectively to sue him and the state he would head for crimes committed while he was an IRA commander?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/sep/22/bloody-sunday-compensation-more-payout?CMP=twt_fd

Bertie Ahern the Irish Revenue and Rupert Murdoch

http://johnlifebooks.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/how-cozy-was-bertie-ahern-and-the-irish-revenue-with-rupert-murdoch/

WikiLeaks revelations have shone further light on the degree of state collusion. The Guardian reported last month that the leaked US embassy cables revealed Bertie Ahern, the former Irish prime minister, told US diplomats "everyone knows the UK was involved" in the murder and that US diplomats feared "elements of the security-legal establishments" in Britain were fighting to resist an inquiry....read more

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/17/wikileaks-pat-finucane-inquiry

Pat #Finucane #Wikileaks data gives fresh impetus to Pat Finucane inquiry campaign

Leaked US cables could throw fresh light on the level of state collusion in the 1989 murder of Belfast civil rights lawyer

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Pat Finucane, the Northern Ireland civil rights lawyer killed by loyalist paramilitaries in 1989. Photograph: Reuters

 

"Some Americans might decry Julian Assange as some kind of anarchist – someone who should be locked up for a thousand years," reflects Michael Finucane, a 39-year-old Dublin-based solicitor. "But all WikiLeaks is doing is filling the vacuum created by governments unnecessarily."

Readers who know the Finucane name will understand the significance of those words. Michael is the son of Pat Finucane, the murdered civil rights lawyer. In 1989 Douglas Hogg, then junior home office minister, told the House of Commons some solicitors in Northern Ireland were "unduly sympathetic to the cause of the IRA". Michael Finucane has described these words as "a verbal hand grenade lobbed into the cauldron of Northern Ireland".

Three weeks later, two gunmen from the loyalist paramilitary group the Ulster Freedom Fighters burst into the family home in Belfast, wounding Pat Finucane and his wife, Geraldine. One gunman stood over him as he lay on the ground and fired 14 shots into his body and head.

Michael, then 17, was in the house with his brother and sister. Two decades later, the Finucane family is still trying to find out why their father was targeted and whether the government was involved in the killing. They continue to call for a full and independent public inquiry.

The WikiLeaks revelations have shone further light on the degree of state collusion. The Guardian reported last month that the leaked US embassy cables revealed Bertie Ahern, the former Irish prime minister, told US diplomats "everyone knows the UK was involved" in the murder and that US diplomats feared "elements of the security-legal establishments" in Britain were fighting to resist an inquiry....read more

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jan/17/wikileaks-pat-finucane-inquiry

#Smithwick Tribunal Inquiry .

http://www.smithwicktribunal.ie/smithwick/HOMEPAGE.html

Ian Hurst: Statement to the Smithwick Tribunal of Inquiry Made Public.

http://stakeknife.blogspot.com/2011/09/ian-hurst-statement-to-smithwick.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/sep/11/ira-murders-claim-to-smithwick

Pat #Finucane Centre : British army 'covered up' UDR units links to UVF

By Barry McCaffrey

The British army has been accused of a ’cover up’ after it was disclosed that it has withheld evidence for more than three decades revealing that UDR units were being used to finance and support the UVF in Belfast, with at least 70 soldiers on one base linked to the loyalist terror group.

The Detail website can reveal top secret government papers which disclose that the UDR’s Belfast battalion was heavily infiltrated by the UVF in the late 1970s.

The `For UK Eyes Only’ documents, uncovered by the Pat Finucane Centre, reveal how:
• Army chiefs feared that 70 soldiers in one UDR unit were linked to the UVF in west Belfast, including one member of the notorious Shankill Butcher gang;

• One UDR unit was suspected of siphoning-off £47,000 to the UVF while UDR equipment was regularly stolen from another unit to support the loyalist terror group;

• UVF members were regularly allowed to socialise at the UDR’s Girdwood barracks social club;

• Army chiefs considered secretly testing firing UDR soldiers’ weapons to check whether they had been used in sectarian murders;

• The collusion investigation was then suspended after a senior UDR officer claimed it was damaging morale within the regiment....read more

http://www.thedetail.tv/issues/20/udr-girdwood-story/british-army-covered-up-udr-units-links-to-uvf

#hackgate #metfail : Martin Ingram on Spies in Northern Ireland.

http://www.google.es/search?q=%22Martin+Ingram%22+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fcryptome.org%2F&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=Hle&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&biw=939&bih=564&num=10&lr=&ft=i&cr=&safe=off&tbs=

#IRA #PSNI :'I'm not going to put my life in danger to do the PSNI's job'

Northern Editor Suzanne Breen explains why she will not comply with police pressure to reveal her sources in the Real IRA

On Monday, a Police Service of Northern Ireland officer arrived at my Belfast home with a letter. Detectives wanted my computer, disks, notes, phone, and any material relating to stories I'd written about the Real IRA.

I was given three days to comply. If I didn't, they'd seek a court order under the Terrorism Act. I won't be complying. The duty of a reporter to protect their sources is part of the National Union of Journalists' code of conduct. It doesn't matter whether those sources are police, paramilitaries, politicians, or civil servants.

Compliance would also destroy my livelihood and life. No organisation or individual with sensitive information would trust me again. If I did what the PSNI wants, my life would be in imminent danger. The Real IRA is utterly ruthless.

It shoots men delivering pizza to the security forces. It doesn't grant special status to journalists who, in its eyes, "collaborate". My Sunday Tribune stories related to the murder of two British soldiers at Massereene in March and that of Denis Donaldson three years ago.

Both investigations are matters of great public importance. But it's the job of police, not journalists, to bring those responsible to justice. The information I have about both attacks was printed in this newspaper. It's in the public domain.

I've no other information to substantially advance the police investigation. The Real IRA don't tell journalists their gunmen's identities. I wasn't allowed to record my interview...read more

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http://winnowinghistory.blogspot.com/2009/05/im-not-going-to-put-my-life-in-danger.html

http://paper.li/mccnr9/caso-madeleine-mccann