Are these British soldiers who blew up innocent civilians terrorists?

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Were British Special Forces Soldiers Planting Bombs in Basra?

Suspicions Strengthened by Earlier Reports


by Michael Keefer

September 25, 2005
GlobalResearch.ca


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Does anyone remember the shock with which the British public greeted the revelation four years ago that one of the members of the Real IRA unit whose bombing attack in Omagh on August 15, 1998 killed twenty-nine civilians had been a double agent, a British army soldier?

That soldier was not Britain’s only terrorist double agent. A second British soldier planted within the IRA claimed he had given forty-eight hours advance notice of the Omagh car-bomb attack to his handlers within the Royal Ulster Constabulary, including "details of one of the bombing team and the man’s car registration." Although the agent had made an audio tape of his tip-off call, Sir Ronnie Flanagan, chief constable of the RUC, declared that "no such information was received" (http://www.sundayherald.com/17827).

This second double agent went public in June 2002 with the claim that from 1981 to 1994, while on full British army pay, he had worked for "the Force Research Unit, an ultra-secret wing of British military intelligence," as an IRA mole. With the full knowledge and consent of his FRU and MI5 handlers, he became a bombing specialist who "mixed explosive and … helped to develop new types of bombs," including "light-sensitive bombs, activated by photographic flashes, to overcome the problem of IRA remote-control devices having their signal jammed by army radio units." He went on to become "a member of the Provisional IRA’s ‘internal security squad’—also known as the ‘torture unit’—which interrogated and executed suspected informers" (http://www.sundayherald.com/print25646).

The much-feared commander of that same "torture unit" was likewise a mole, who had previously served in the Royal Marines’ Special Boat Squadron (an elite special forces unit, the Marines’ equivalent to the better-known SAS). A fourth mole, a soldier code-named "Stakeknife" whose military handlers "allowed him to carry out large numbers of terrorist murders in order to protect his cover within the IRA," was still active in December 2002 as "one of Belfast’s leading Provisionals" (http://www.sundayherald.com/29997).

[The Magistrate]

1. The Persons Actually Referenced In That Article, Sir

Are certainly criminals, as are their superiors or handlers. The Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, too, it would appear, has a great deal to answer for.

None of this bears directly, of course, on speculation concerning recent events in Basra, and the scale and signifigance of same. It would certainly be foolish to claim the instances cited above, for example, prove there was no Irish Republican Army killing Irish Protestants, English soldiers, and Irish Catholics to boot for various causes.

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2. A lot bears directly on Basra

No one is implying that there aren't Iraqis killing Brits there. The question of the moment is whether Brits are killing Iraqi policemen, or worse--their countrymen.

[The Magistrate]

4. Doubtless They Are Killing Iraqi Policemen, Sir

It is well known a number of them are affiliated with the resistance to occupation, and it is a pretty standard response....

[Old Mouse]

3. They're Freedom Fighters, of course! n/t