British Terror in Ireland   Kevin Raftery• 14 September 2004 It seems like the British establishment will never learn their lesson and are still engaged in the ‘dirty war’ in Ireland. No news for months from Ulster and all of a sudden, after the Pat Finucane murder case where British State Terror was put under the spotlight, the BBC show that their hands are just as filthy as the loyalist terror squads, by deflecting the spotlight from the Finucane case. Two programmes set by the BBC on IRA bombings were conveniently programmed to coincide with the British Terror findings. The Brighton Bomb and The Hunt for the Bomber (BBC 1 Sept 14) conveniently remind the British public of IRA atrocities on the British Mainland. When loyalist gunmen burst into the solicitor’s north Belfast home 15 years ago and riddled his body, covert police and Army units simultaneously ran informers on the sectarian streets of Belfast to collude in assassinations. The ‘Honest Brokers’ called the security services preferred to protect prized agents like Brian Stobie, who was actively engaged with the FRU (Force Research Unit). This unit cemented British terrorist involvement and collusion in the murder of innocent Catholics in their own domain. Now, the political know-alls featured in news items on the BBC reference the findings with comments like “McGuiness and Adams hardly kept their hands clean did they?” Well there is one difference here in the latest British propaganda trick. The British military establishment were never labelled as terrorists were they?                                                           Index: Current Articles + Latest News and Views + Book Reviews + Letters + Archives

All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. - George Bernard Shaw Index: Current Articles 19 September 2004 Other Articles From This Issue: Get On With It Dolours Price Who Pulled the Strings Eamon McCann Can of Worms John Kennedy British Terror in Ireland Kevin Raftery Big Snake Lake Eoghan O’Suilleabhain 'Ulster Britishism' or the Myth of Nationality Liam O Comain An Teanga Once Again? Seaghán Ó Murchú Converting Waste into Value Liam O Ruairc Scargill Speaks In Belfast Anthony McIntyre NIPSA, the Most Important Workers Strike in Northern Ireland in 20 Years Davy Carlin • 12 September 2004 • Standing Down Mick Hall Life in the Party Seaghán Ó Murchú Is There a Peaceful Way to a Peoples Republic? Liam O Comain Rising to the Top of the Hate List Fred A. Wilcox Books Not Bombs Mary La Rosa Fighting for the Right to be a British Drug Dealer Anthony McIntyre Document Stamped 'Secret' submitted by Fionnbarra Ó Dochartaigh The Final Insult Starry Plough Editorial Collective Tensions Escalate as Loyalists March Through the Ardoyne Paul Mallon

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