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Conspiracy report rocks U.K.
(Martin Sieff, UPI, April 18, 2003)
A slim 20-page report released in Belfast Thursday has unleashed a political firebomb on Northern Irish politics and the famed British Army and security services . . . It accuses British army and intelligence officers of having secretly cooperated with Protestant unionist paramilitary organizations to single out Catholics as the victims of cold-blooded killings. . . . Stevens said, "My inquiries have highlighted collusion. The willful failure to keep records, the withholding of intelligence and evidence and the extreme of agents being involved in murder." . . . During most of the so-called Northern Irish Troubles, lasting 30 years from 1968 to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, spokesmen and supporters of the Catholic nationalist paramilitary Irish Republican Army have repeatedly accused British security forces and the old Northern Irish police, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, of secretly cooperating with Protestant loyalist paramilitary groups such as the Ulster Defense Association in the terror killings of Catholics. . . . Stevens' report looks certain to revive old suspicions and reopen old wounds. The summary released Thursday focused on two specific murders -- the killing of Catholic lawyer Patrick Finucane, shot 14 times in front of his wife and three children in 1989 and the 1987 slaying of Protestant teenager Brian Adam Lambert as crimes that should have been prevented. But Stevens has also said that he and his crack team of detectives are still probing no less than 26 other murders that potentially involved collusion between British security authorities and the loyalist paramilitary hit squads. . . . Stevens' released conclusions have caused a sensation in Britain. . . . The ramifications of Stevens' revelations are therefore likely to be lasting as well as shocking. They also raise profound questions about the methods necessary to defeat terrorist insurgencies against democratic societies, and how far those societies can and should go in condoning extreme counter-measures.

posted by Lorenzo 1:20 PM