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New IRA terror group forms

By
PATRICK ROBERTS,
IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Sunday, December 13, 2009, 12:17 PM
Updated Sunday, December 13, 2009, 8:23 PM

 

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A Real IRA graffito in Bogside, County Derry
A Real IRA graffito in Bogside, County Derry

A new dissent Republican group may be forming in Northern Ireland, the London Times reported today.  The organization would include dissidents that have defected from the Continuity IRA (CIRA) and the Real IRA.

The group will not have a name, with the deliberate aim of confusing members of the security forces. It has not yet formally announced its existence but may do so in the New Year.

The group is apparently selecting as members only those who have already proven themselves by participating in terrorist attacks or in other hardline activities.

“This group is highly secretive and paranoid about informants and their identities being revealed,” a Republican source told the London Times. “They are serious operators who know what’s involved in running a [terrorist] campaign. They’ve done it before.”

A source from the security forces said they are struggling to keep up with activity, according to the Times.

“The main players are under surveillance but there is so much activity it’s almost impossible to decipher what is happening,” the source said. “They are meeting and planning the whole time. Dissidents from different factions are meeting each other and hardliners from the IRA, who have drifted away from them and Sinn Fein.”

The source added, “The dissidents have the capacity to kill and bomb, but not in a sustainable way.”

Some republicans are clear about their dissatisfaction with Sinn Fein and the status quo. A spokesman for a website called the Republican Network for Unity, Kevin McQuillan, told the Times, “I think the turning point amongst the armed groups, ironically enough, happened in March when Martin McGuinness called the republicans who attacked Massereene ‘traitors’. The use of that terminology by an iconic republican figure shocked us.”

In a statement from March on the Republican Network for Unity site, RNU National Chairperson Danny Mc Brearty said that if the Good Friday Agreement did not undergo review, dissent would continue.

“The use of emotive language, total ‘condemnation’ and calls for the vigorous pursuit of ‘criminals’ – is not only ineffective …  This will achieve nothing other than to breed resistance.

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Posted by plasticpaddy on Dec 14, 2009, 12:19 AM EST
Irishmen will do it, not god!
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Posted by kickstar on Dec 13, 2009, 10:31 PM EST
I wonder if this group uses Green products.
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Posted by vincentruane on Dec 13, 2009, 03:40 PM EST
GOD EVENTUALLY WILL UNITE IRELAND, VIOLENCE WILL ONLY DELAY THAT DAY!
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Posted by Rebelforce on Dec 13, 2009, 12:35 PM EST
Well if it's in the London Times it MUST be true. There has never been any hint of anti-Irish bigotry in any of those British tabloid papers, as is well known.
 


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