Irish Republican Info Svc #231 2/10/98 =========== Posted to multiple newsgroups and lists =========== ===== Redistribute *only* with full header and signature! ===== Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit IRISH REPUBLICAN INFORMATION SERVICE (no. 231) Teach Daithi O Conaill 223 Parnell Street Dublin 1, Ireland Phone: +353-1-872-9747; FAX: +353-1-872-9757; e-mail: saoirse@iol.ie February 10, 1998 Internet resources maintained by SAOIRSE - Irish Freedom: http://iol.ie/~saoirse/rsflinks.htm In this issue 1. Republican Sinn Fein to picket Stormont talks next week 2. LVF attempt to kill in north Belfast 3. New Stormont on the way 4. RUC watchtower angers locals 5. Irish language mail returned 6. Arrest of Robert Hamill's brother 7. Orangeman's Bloody Sunday slur 8. UDA/UFF figure shot dead in south Belfast 9. Opposition to sell-out gets standing ovation 10. Witness evidence that British planned Bloody Sunday massacre 11. Bloody Sunday inquiry -- a sop to nationalists? 12. Bloody Sunday: Tribunal's brief and extent of grief questioned; Can prosecutions to the higest level follow? 13. Bloody Sunday rally at GPO, Dublin 14. Crown terror on school children 15. Aotearoa picket 16. Blast in Enniskillen unclaimed 17. Priests threatened by LVF 18. H-block escaper to serve full term 19. Drug dealer killed outside Belfast restaurant 1. REPUBLICAN SINN FEIN TO PICKET STORMONT TALKS NEXT WEEK REPUBLICAN Sinn Fein will mount a picket on the day of the opening of the Stormont talks session in Dublin on Monday next, February 16. The organisation will hold the picket to demonstrate its opposition to the talks which are aimed at reinforcing and modernising British rule and involve a New Stormont. Under the banner 'Stop the Stormont sell-out' the Republican Sinn Fein protest will commence outside the Dublin Castle talks venue in the city centre at 9am. The talks are scheduled to take place in Dublin for three days, from Monday, February 16 to Wednesday, February 18. 2. LVF ATTEMPT TO KILL IN NORTH BELFAST A NATIONALIST taxi-driver narrowly escaped death when a lone gunman burst into the offices of Metro Cabs in the early hours of Tuesday, January 27. The gunman entered the depot at 3am, stormed up to the taxi-driver who was sitting at a desk and took aim at the employee who immediately dived for the floor. According to the driver, who refused to be named, the gun jammed which induced frantic efforts by the death-squad assailant to free it's mechanism by banging it on the table. Having failed, the gunman left the building. "I am the luckiest man alive," the taxi-driver said, "Basically It thought I was dead." He vowed to continue working, "I have to work, I have three mouths to feed", he said. Two nationalist taxi-drivers, Larry Brennan and John McGolgan were killed within a nine day period during January, while another managed to escape his assailants in North Belfast. 3. NEW STORMONT ON THE WAY THE race is on as to who will place the foundation stone for the new Stormont. Dublin Prime Minister, Bertie Ahern told the Leinster House assembly on February 4, "We have the building blocks and we know what has to be done -- all we need is a resolution to do that," and said he believed an April deadline was feasible. On February 5, Dublin Foreign Minister, David Andrews enthused, "there can be, and will be, no return to the old style Stormont". Speaking in Newcastle, Co Down, Andrews insisted that North-South bodies would have strong executive functions. Speaking in Dublin on the same date, Direct Ruler, Mo Mowlam put May as the deadline for the new Stormont. However Belfast's Andersonstown News in the first week of February asked if the Dublin Administration was managing to "negotiate away" what had been achieved by the previous 26-County administration. It expressed bafflement at a recent statement from Dublin -- that it was not suggesting "Freestanding and unaccountable North-South bodies". Whereas Dublin had assured nationalists three weeks earlier that the very same bodies would "stand alone" and have "executive powers". Speaking in Sligo on February 7, Gerry Kelly of the Provisionals talks team said, "Any structures which Sinn Fein ultimately agrees to will have to be both bigot-proof and veto-proof". So a new Stormont without bigots is OK then, Gerry? All of which confirms Republican Sinn Fein's repeated statements that the current process is aimed at a New Stormont rather than a New Ireland. 4. RUC WATCHTOWER ANGERS LOCALS WHILE the 'Constitutionalists' clowns in the Provisionals waffle on about equality within the Six- County British colony, the occupying power is free to carry out a different plan. Britain's management enforcers are busy extending and reinforcing their bases in Ireland almost on a daily basis. Over the weekend of February 6-7, the British colonial police (RUC) have erected an enormous communications mast at the RUC barracks in Andersonstown. The tower which is over 100 feet high has angered local residents who have complained about the increased British army and RUC presence in the area. One local businessman, Harry Holland more worried about the effect it would have on his business said "You have to ask what kind of message this sends out when we are meant to be pursuing peace". Not only is the mounting level of surveillance and harassment worrying locals. The possibility of risks to health from microwaves emanating from the surveillance equipment is also a matter of extreme concern since the beginning of the Provo-surrender process, the British have spent over #50 million on constructing new barracks and refurbishing old military bases 5. IRISH LANGUAGE MAIL RETURNED IRISH language enthusiasts domiciled in the Occupied Six Counties are unable to receive letters addressed in their native language because of Britain's Royal Mail's refusal to deliver them. According to Liam O Cuinneagain of Oideas Gael in Gaeltacht Tir Chonaill (the Irish-speaking area in Donegal) over 80 letters sent to Six-County addresses detailing the organisation's summer programme were returned. Speaking on February 7 he emphasised that Oideas Gael was a non-sectarian body enjoying widespread support across the spectrum. "We have both Protestants and Catholics attending our summer courses in the Donegal Gaeltacht and we also enjoy good relations with the 'Northern Ireland Office", he said. The attitude of the Royal Mail and its colonial division in the Six Counties represents a partitionist and imperialist stance of the occupying power and its Unionist underlings. Liam O Cuinneagain has raised the matter with Dublin's Department of Foreign Affairs. "I raised this for two reasons. One, I wanted to know why it was happening, and two it was a week link in the good relations we enjoy in Northern Ireland", he said. Meanwhile Irish Language militants in Gaeltacht Tir Chonaill have been active in erasing offensive English road signs in an area stretching from Loch an tIuir to Gort a 'Choirce including entrance roads to the Gaeltacht leaving only the Irish version of the place-names intact. 6. ARREST OF ROBERT HAMILL'S BROTHER LURGAN- based lawyer, Rosemary Nelson, has hit out at the vindictiveness of the British Colonial police (RUC) in singling out the family of Robert Hamill while allegedly investigating the Drumcree disturbances of 1997. Speaking on February 6, Rosemary Nelson said she received a letter from the RUC in Portadown, asking her to bring Robert Hamill's brother to the barracks for questioning. "Basically they wanted me to arrest my own client. I was absolutely horrified when they sent the letter making the request. It is absolutely not normal procedure", she said. Father-of-three Robert Hamill (25) died in hospital on May 12 last year after enduring monstrous beatings in a horror attack by a 30-strong orange mob when he and three relatives were making their way home from a dance in Portadown, Co Armagh on April 27. He received a constant stream of blows and kicks from the mob and danced on him while shouting "Die you Fenian bastard, die". An RUC Land Rover was on the scene and witnessed the entire event without once intervening. Rosemary Nelson said the family was totally devastated by the upsurge in RUC intimidation. Robert Hamill's brother was released without charge at the beginning of February. 7. ORANGEMAN'S BLOODY SUNDAY SLUR DERRY human rights campaigner Eamonn McCann who was present during the Bloody Sunday massacre of January 30, 1972 described as "fantasy" the appeal from south Belfast unionist MP Rev Martin Smyth for people with evidence of IRA men being secretly buried in Co Donegal following Bloody Sunday to come forward. Belfast's 'Irish News' of February 7 reported Smyth, a former Grand Master of the Orange Order as saying that allegations had been made that more than 14 people were killed On Bloody Sunday. "How many people have been missing since then? How many were taken to hospital or surgeries in the Irish Republic? Were any scientific tests done on their persons or clothing?" Martin Smyth went on, "Citizens in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland who have such knowledge should come forward. If there is concern of reprisals or confidentiality, Martin Smyth, Belfast South or Lord Molyneaux of Killead would be glad to assist." The notion that IRA Volunteers were shot by the British army's Parachute Regiment and secretly hidden or buried in the 26 Counties first appeared in a book in 1992. As Eamonn McCann pointed out, "It was carried in 'Para' which was published in 1992 by Arms and Armouring Press and written by Peter Harcherode. "He is a former member of the Territorial Army, SAS and Parachute Regiment, and the book is dedicated to the paras." McCann asks of Smyth, "Does he think there are families in the Bogside who have been lying for years? Does he think they have been secretly grieving while telling the neighbours that 'he's away working in England' " Derry's Pat Finucane Centre which monitors human rights abuses asked: "Are there seriously people in this country who believed the likes of Martin Smyth have a role to play in any future assembly?" and advised he move to a country where he could associate with people who shared "his bizarre flat-Earth theories". 8. UDA/UFF FIGURE SHOT DEAD IN SOUTH BELFAST AT lunchtime on February 10 a leading Belfast loyalist, believed to be connected with the UDA/UFF British-based death squad, was shot dead outside Balmoral Textile Factory in the south of the city. The man was waiting in a car to pick up a friend from work in the factory when the attackers opened fire. The dead man was named as Robert Dougan and was believed to be in his thirties. No organisation has claimed responsibility for the killing. The getaway car was later found burnt out in the nearby nationalist Twinbrook area. The Crown Forces swamped Twinbrook after the shooting and carried out raids on homes. The dead man was from the Suffolk area of south Belfast. 9. OPPOSITION TO SELL-OUT GETS STANDING OVATION THERE was a significant Republican Sinn Fein presence on the annual Bloody Sunday march through London which took place on 24th January. Two cumainn, the John Whelan Cumann (Liverpool) and the Michael Flannery Cumann (West Hertfordshire) were both represented, along with their banners, on a parade which numbered over a thousand people. The parade assembled at Highbury Fields in North London before setting off led by the James Larkin Liverpool Irish flute band, on the two miles long march to Caxton House in Holloway, where a rally was held. There was widespread support from onlookers throughout the length of Holloway Road, and some opposition too, principally on the corner of Camden Road where a mob of around 50 fascists waved Union Jacks and shouted racist anti-Irish slogans. Those on the protest march were encouraged by the news that there is shortly to be another inquiry into the Bloody Sunday massacre, even though many of them must have realised that the Brirish government is not averse to the setting up of such an inquiry when it (mistakenly in this case) believes the main issue of Irish freedom has been consigned to the dustbin of history. As if to lend credence to this error, many placards on the parade carried the feeble slogan, 'Civil Rights 68, Equal Rights 98' with all the implications that slogan has of the acceptance by some of a partitionist settlement. In marked contrast, shouts of, 'No peace Under British Rule' and 'No peace Without Freedom' were the slogans coming from Republican Sinn Fein members. The following day at an indoor rally in Camden Town Hall, addressed by Gerry Adams and Martin McGuiness, there was strong opposition from sections of the crowd on the question of abandoning Republican principles and one speaker who accused the platform of selling out on the principle of Irish unity was given a standing ovation by a large section of the audience. In his speech, Martin McGuiness admitted that, "In May when the settlement will be signed up to, it clearly will not be the case that we will have a united Ireland". 10. WITNESS EVIDENCE THAT BRITISH PLANNED BLOODY SUNDAY MASSACRE TWO witnesses have told a Dublin evening newspaper that British soldiers on the ground in Derry in 1972 knew in advance that the march would be fired on by Crown Forces. The Evening Herald on January 26 published evidence from two women, Mary and Sandra, who had separate contact with British soldiers hours before the Bloody Sunday massacre. One woman, who was going out with a British soldier, was phoned the night before Bloody Sunday and warned to stop her family from going on the anti-internment march because "the [British] paratroopers are in Derry for a purpose". A second woman was informed at 6am on the morning of January 30, 1972 -- Bloody Sunday -- by a senior officer in the British military police that "It's going to be one bloody Sunday". She worked in a Derry restaurant which opened long hours and was frequented by British Crown Forces. On the morning of Bloody Sunday one of her regular British military police customers named "Lewis" asked to speak to her in the corridor of the restaurant. "He said to me 'have you got a family'?' I said I had and he said 'don't let them go on that march today because it's going to be one bloody Sunday,' " Mary said. She banned her children from attending the march but, like the other woman, remained silent about it for 26 years for fear of British reprisal if they spoke out and said it was a planned British massacre of unarmed Derry civilians. Meanwhile, the Irish News on January 23 reported that the head of the British colonial police in Derry at the time of the Bloody Sunday massacre had admitted passing intelligence reports to the British army that the IRA would not be present in Derry's Bogside during the anti-internment march. Now retired, former RUC Chief Superintendent Frank Lagan revealed that he had passed his intelligence report to the officers commanding the British army in the Occupied Six Counties, General Robert Ford and Brigadier APW MacLellan, before the march took place. He said he had never met the Para commander in Derry Lt Colonel Derek Wilford. Wilford told British Channel Four television news on January 19 that he had never been informed of the RUC intelligence regret that the IRA would not be in the Bogside during the march. He also said that his "men acted magnificently" on the day, shooting dead 13 marchers andwounding many more. Don Mullan, Dublin Co-ordinator of the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign, said that Frank Lagan had confirmed the relatives' consistent view that the British Crown Forces knew the IRA "would be away. I think there was a plan within a plan to shoot Donaghy and Johnston to draw the IRA down from Creggan to Bogside. I always felt it was a political decision." Damian Donaghy and John Johnston were both shot 17 minutes before the main body of shooting by the British paras. Donaghy survived but John Johnston became the fourteenth victim, dying of his injuries several months after Bloody Sunday. In the Sunday Business Post on January 25 photojournalist Joanne O'Brien recorded the memories of relatives of the 14 victims together with photographs of them at the spot where their loved ones were shot down. She described Bloody Sunday as "the last public state-sponsored killing of citizens in these islands". 11. BLOODY SUNDAY INQUIRY -- A SOP TO NATIONALISTS? THE British government announced on January 29 that a public inquiry into the killings of 14 Derry men on Bloody Sunday -- January 30, 1972 -- would be set up, chaired by a British Law Lord, Lord Saville along with two others from the British Commonwealth. With no details on the terms of reference of the inquiry, Ruairi O Bradaigh, Republican Sinn Fein President, asked on January 29: "Will the motivation and planning of the Bloody Sunday shootings come under scrutiny? Will the setting up of the Widgery whitewash exercise be examined?" He continued: Having ignored the Bloody Sunday Massacre for 20 years the Leinster House politicians have pressed for the re-opening of the inquiry into it only when such appears useful to the current process. A public inquiry into a massacre nearer their seat of power -- the Dublin and Monaghan bombings of 1974 which claimed 33 lives -- has not taken place, nor has the evidence available to the police been published, as has been requested by the families of the dead. Similarly, the British government deems it expedient at this time to attempt to mollify the nationally-minded people of the Six Occupied Counties in a cynical manoeuvre to smooth the way for the acceptance of an updated and modernised form of British Rule. Will the terms of reference include the conversation during which Prime Minister Heath told Lord Widgery (before the sitting of the Tribunal) "Remember there is a propaganda war as well as a military war in Northern Ireland"? At this time it would be appropriate to remind Irish people of the quotation "Beware the Greeks carrying gifts". 12. BLOODY SUNDAY: TRIBUNAL'S INDEPENDENCE AND EXTEND OF BRIEF QUESTIONED; CAN PROSECUTIONS TO THE HISTEST LEVEL FOLLOW? Republican Sinn Fein questions whether the new tribunal into the Bloody Sunday massacre can be truly independent since it will be chaired by a British judge and the other two members of it are "likely to be" (Mr Blair's words) from the British Commonwealth. Will the tribunal's remit extend not just to the events on the ground that day but also to the motivation and planning of them even to the highest level? It is not good enough that British soldiers be held accountable while policy-makers escape responsibility. Will the discovery of relevant documents be pursued right through to the top of the British Establishment and will these be published? For instance will the minutes of the British Cabinet sub-committee -- believed to be called the Defence and Overseas committee -- which included Prime Minister Heath and Northern Secretary Whitelaw be made available for public scrutiny. It was at this level that the events of Bloody Sunday were planned. Until such time as the British government disengages finally from Ireland and there is a general amnesty for the events arising out of the conflict in the Six Occupied Counties, prosecutions should be proceeded with where there are grounds for doing so. Decision makers and all others responsible -- and not just members of the British forces -- must be made amenable to justice. Otherwise the new tribunal will be just another public relations exercise, designed to placate nationally-minded Irish people and further the current endeavour to modernise British rule in Ireland. Finally, Republican Sinn Fein would pay tribute to the relatives of the Bloody Sunday dead for their fortitude and persistence in pursuit of the truth and to commend all campaigners in this cause for their dedicated work down the years. Justice must be done with regard to Bloody Sunday -- and be seen to be done. 13. BLOODY SUNDAY RALLY AT GPO, DUBLIN Republican inn Fein held a Bloody Sunday commemoration at the GPO in Dublin on Saturday, January 31 attended by 500 people. Fourteen black flags were carried in memory of the 14 dead in Derry. Among the speakers was Deaglan O Donghaile of Derry who was born three years after Bloody Sunday. In his speech he said: "Two days ago, on Thursday, January 29, the British announced that they intend to launch another inquiry into the massacre headed by British Law Lord Saville. Saville, an ex-British soldier and figure of the high imperialism that sanctioned the massacre and has covered up the truth ever since, will not act in the interests of the Irish people. The only interests that he will serve are those of the Imperialist and sectarian state that pays his wages. "The utter defeat of the Irish people is the only interest that the British have at heart. The bogus inquiry which they are about to launch will be a political tool in achieving this end. Presided over by a figure of the imperial establishment, a new British inquiry will only serve that Establishment's colonial interests. "The best way for us to commemorate brave men and boys murdered on Bloody Sunday is never to forget them. It is to remember them and what they stood for: freedom and courage. And it is to remember that British rule stands for tyranny and murder. Unfortunately, that murderer, the British State, still holds sway in our country. That murderer still maintains the Partition of our country -- a Partition for which not one single Irish vote was democratically cast -- a Partition which is sustained by the regular spillage of Irish blood. In the last month that Partition has ensured another protracted Bloody Sunday with the murders of nine more innocents in the Six Counties by agents of the British Crown operating in collusion with their colleagues in uniform. "The Bloody Sunday massacre was carried out with the intention of murdering the popular movement for the freedom of Ireland. That day the British succeeded in taking the lives of fourteen of Ireland's finest and bravest sons. Let us show them today that in murdering them they failed toachieve their objective, that the Brits have failed to murder the Irish people's desire for freedom. "Let us show them that there are still Irish people who do not fear their alien laws, who are prepared to follow in the footsteps of the Bloody Sunday martyrs on the road to victory and let us show them that we will achieve that freedom for which they died in our lifetime," Deaglan O Donghaile concluded. Also speaking at the rally were Ruairi Og O Bradaigh, Publicity Officer, Republican Sinn Fein (Dublin and Roscommon), Saoirse Breatnach, Ard Chomhairle (Dublin) and Deasun O Daltun, Ard Chomhairle (Kildare). 14. CROWN TERROR ON SCHOOL CHILDREN AS Crown Forces increase their saturation of nationalists areas across the Six Counties-it emerged on January 25 that the British Colonial Police (RUC) are stepping up their campaign of terror against the population by intimidating school-children. Buses ferrying pupils to and from school are being shadowed by RUC vehicles and a spokesperson for the colonial police has threatened more of this escalating terror across the occupied area. He justified this by saying "very often there are patrols along with buses which pass through areas where there could be problems" and attempted to present this harassment as protection. Nationalists are being suffocated by a blanket of imperial harassment with 16,000 British Troops and 10,000 paramilitary police covering their movements. By casting their terror-eye on schoolchildren, the British Colonial office at Stormont is using defenceless children in order to intimidate nationalists into a mood of confidence. Members of the RUC are also known to the hold membership of the Orange Order and membership of or association with loyalist death squads. 15. AOTEAROA PICKET ON the 26th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday Massacre, January 30 last Information on Ireland held a picket outside the British Consulate in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand. The organisers handed in a letter of protest to the British consul at the building, situated in the Fay Richwhite building, 151 Queen Street. The Information on Ireland statement welcomed the British announcement the previous day to hold a new inquiry into Bloody Sunday. [Information on Ireland can be contacted at PO Box 90-132, Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand.] 16. BLAST IN ENNISKILLEN UNCLAIMED A LEISURE centre in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh was destroyed in a massive car-bomb explosion on Saturday, January 24. British army bomb disposal experts were examining a red Ford Sierra car when the device, said to contain 300lb of explosives went off causing extensive damage to the immediate area including the destruction of a robot used in the bomb disposal operation. Although over 500 revellers were enjoying a function at the centre, all were evacuated to safety prior to the attack. The bomb exploded at approximately 9.30pm outside the centre's Factory Street entrance two hours after several telephone warnings including one to a local catholic priest had been given. To date no organisation has claimed responsibility for the attack which coincided with the resumption othe Stormont talks. Speculation in the media and among Crown Forces is that the bombing was the work of the Continuity Irish Republican Army. The CIRA has been blamed for several bomb assaults in the Fermanagh Area in recent times. Also on January 24, crown forces were allowed into examine suspect devices in Belfast's Botanic Avenue for the second time in two weeks. Further bomb alerts brought the British army to the Stormont Hotel in East Belfast and the Culloden Hotel in Cultra on the same date. All these incidents turned out to be hoaxes. Meanwhile, the Provisionals Martin McGuinness condemned the Enniskillen explosion as "An attack on the peace process itself". His colleague on the talks team at Stormont, Councillor Gerry McHugh said "As far as I can see, the [Provisional] IRA ceasefire is the only one that remains intact-there is violence all around us". 17. PRIESTS THREATENED BY LVF TWO Catholic priests in the Mid-Ulster area have received death threats via the British Colonial police(RUC). A clergyman close to the would-be victims confirmed the men were taking the threat seriously and remaining vigilant. "I understand the threat against these priests was sentto the police. It named the priests and said they would be killed by the LVF. At this point people cannot be too careful", he said. Once again the death-squads are using their friends in the RUC to deliver threatening messages. 18. H-BLOCK ESCAPER TO SERVE FULL TERM Long Kesh escaper Jimmy Smyth who was recently extradited from the United States at the behest of the British government has been told that his two-year detention in America will not be taken into account by the imperial authorities. Smyth was imprisoned in the United States for nearly two years before being released on bail and electronically tagged. His lawyers have argued that the time served qualifies for a reduction of his sentence in the Six Counties. When the lawyers went to court towards the end of January to press for a response from Direct Ruler, Mo Mowlam, the British Colonial office at Stormont rushed through a statement rejecting the bid claiming Smyth was "illegally at large", and as a result Mo Mowlam had decided "not to depart in this from the general policy". Angela Ritchie of the legal firm Madden and Finucane has vowed to "commence fresh proceedings challenging the Secretary of state's decision"; and she says she regrets that Mowlam did not credit her client "for the time that he had spent in custody in America, or the time when he had substantial restrictions placed upon his liberty while exercising his lawful right to challenge the application for extradition". Jimmy Smyth was among the 38 POWs who managed a spectacular escape from the H-Blocks, Long Kesh Concentration Camp in 1983. While the compromises talk he is back in jail at the pleasure of Ireland's enemy. 19. DRUG DEALER KILLED OUTSIDE BELFAST RESTAURANT A MAN was killed in a hail of gunfire and a woman seriously injured outside a dinery in south Belfast on February 9. Brendan Campbell (30) had just left Planks restaurant on the Lisburn Road with a female companion at around 11pm. They made their way to their car which was parked in the nearby Brookland Street when the lone gunman struck. One local said Campbell tried to run down an adjacent alleyway but was chased by his assailant. Other witnesses claim to have heard up to ten shots. This was the second attempt on the life of Brendan Campbell. On January 6 he had been drinking in the Meadow Tavern on Belfast's Boucher Road when gunmen entered and shot him in the chest. That attack was claimed by Direct Action Against Drugs (DAAD), a cover-name for the Provisionals' military organisation. The woman thought to be his partner is said by some reports to have received wounds to the back and neck, while others say she was shot in the leg. Her condition was described as serious, and she underwent surgery in Belfast City Hospital. Brendan Campbell died on arrival at the hospital. The Provisionals are finding it heavy going exercising an iron grip on nationalist areas of Belfast. These killings and the ongoing punishment beatings must be seen as an attempt by them to keep that grip. Beware it is not just the anti-social element who will be attacked by them. Many nationalists are not voicing their discontent with the Provisionals' compromising despite intimidation from that quarter. These former Republicans are mutating into a paramilitary police force to strengthen their position in the new Six-County State. They've got nowhere else to go. -end- Please circulate the information in IRIS and credit us if reprinting. We welcome your comments and ideas. 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