Coordinated Bombing Campaign Planned -
Dissident Terrorist groups have pooled their resources to carryout a coordinated bombing and shooting campaign this Autumn and Winter. The Dissident Terrorists will launch bomb attacks from their strong holds in the Irish Republic, namely Donegal, north Monaghan and north Louth in the coming weeks and months. The Dissident Terrorists remain committed to carrying out a bombing campaign in England; this type of spectacular has traditionally been viewed as the life blood of Irish terrorism. Recent successes by the security services on the Island of Ireland have been a set back for the dissidents, however, these groups have been strengthened in recent months by further defections from the Provisional IRA and a significant number of new recruits who have been trained in weapons and explosives. The dissidents have also secured automatic weapons through their relationship with criminal gangs in Cork, Limerick and Dublin. Significant amounts of commercial explosives have not been secured by the dissidents and so they remain dependent on home made explosives.
It is essential that the public remain vigilant and that anyone with any information about the terrorists groups should provide that information to the Gardai or PSNI. It is essential that both the Gardai and the PSNI are given the resources necessary to monitor and where possible apprehend Dissident Terrorists. The border counties on both sides of the Irish border are going to be hot spots in the coming weeks and months for Dissident activity. Due to on going economic criminal activity by the dissident groups in the border areas (for example, smuggling) there is a significant tolerance level of their activity as many local people engage in the selling and buying of illegal goods.
Below an Exclusive Interview with a Dissident Terrorist: Sept 2010.
Dissident Interview: Exclusive: by theirishobserver.blogspot.com
This is an exclusive interview with a member of a dissident terrorist organisation, the RIRA. This dissident has been known to the interviewer for over thirty years and so this interview is going to be open and honest. If you do not wish to read strong language then stop reading now.
Q. Do you honestly believe that you can achieve anything with your on going terror campaign?
A. The fight for national self-determination cannot be won by Sinn Fein sitting in a partitionist Stormont, propping up British rule in Ireland, or Sinn Fein lap dogs sitting in a Freestate Parliament, what have they achieved with their sell-out, 4% of the vote.
Q. But surely your leadership in the RIRA were involved in the secret talk’s process that took place between the PIRA leadership and the Brits?
A. While I recognise that there are those within our leadership who knew about the secret talks between Mc Guinness and M16, they did step down from the PIRA leadership when they realised that those talks could only lead to a partitionist settlement.
Q. I think you are being very naive if you think that Michael Mc Kevitt, Liam Campbell and so forth ever believed that the Brits were going to with draw from Ireland because the PIRA had entered a talk’s process, surely Mc Kevitt and company knew very well that these talks were always about the surrender of militant republicanism?
A. I would say that Mc Kevitt and others allowed the talks process to proceed as they believed that the armed struggle would always be their fall back if the talks did not deliver.
Q. To be honest with you I think that is a load of bollocks, M16 Agent Michael Oakley had Sean O’Callaghan as his key advisor at all times during the talks with Mc Guinness, are you really trying to suggest that Sean O’Callaghan was helping to achieve a United Ireland?
A. We had no idea that O’Callaghan was advising the Brits, our position was simply to establish what the Brits were prepared to offer in terms of all Ireland institutions and so forth, political and policing reform, release of prisoners, in the event that a cease-fire were to be called.
Q. I would have to put it to you that you knew very well that the Brits would deliver on most of those demands, and indeed they did deliver, and I would say to you that Mc Kevitt and others walked away over personal and petty matters rather than any fundamental political flaw in what had and could be achieved by dealing with the Brits?
A. I would say that Mc Kevitt has paid a heavy price for his political position and dedication to the republican cause.
Q. I would put it to you that Mc Kevitt has paid a heavy price because he was stupid man who trusted an American truck driver who was working for the FBI?
A. He made mistakes but his motivation was driven by his republicanism.
Q. Would you not agree that Mc Kevitt like so many more so called republicans, were and are more interested in making personal fortunes from criminality than they are about a United Ireland?
A. That is untrue; I don’t know any republican that has made financial gain from the conflict.
Q. What about Slab Murphy, and the rest of his cronies including Mc Kevitt, Liam Campbell and so forth, surely they have all made personal fortunes from the conflict?
A. I have not seen any such fortunes and I would suggest that all the talk about republicans profiteering from the conflict is Brit propaganda.
Q. Why if it is Brit propaganda have so many so called republicans settled with CAB and other State agencies in the Irish Republic, why have members of your organisation served prison time for taking protection money from lap dancing clubs and other criminal activity?
A. Name any dissident that has served time for taking money from lap dancing clubs on our behalf?
Q. William ‘Billy’ Clare is just one that I could mention, do you want me to mention more?
A. There may have been people operating on their own and using our name.
Q. No, that is not true, as Billy and others were accepted into your wings in Portlaoise Prison, so I am afraid you’re not being honest with yourself or your supporters in terms of who you are doing business with or what your business is. I further put it to you that your members are heavily involved with criminal gangs in Limerick, Cork and Dublin?
A. That is not true and we have never been involved with criminal gangs in those cities, we are an Irish liberation organisation and our war is against the Brits not the Irish people.
Q. I put it to you that your organisation has supplied guns, pipe bombs and other weapons to gangs in those cities, and that you have used your relationship with those organisations to profit from drug dealing, cigarette smuggling and the importation of semi-automatic weapons?
A. That is totally untrue, we have not been involved in drug dealing or other forms of criminality.
Q. Surely your organisation murdered Kieran Doherty in Derry a few months ago because he was dealing drugs without your knowledge, had Kieran shared his enterprise with your leadership he would not be dead?
A. Kieran was executed because he had compromised himself both by way of drug dealing and by way of working for the Brits.
Q. I put it to you that you are a liar and your leadership are liars, Kieran Doherty did not work for the Brits and you know that very well, Kieran Doherty was using a house owned by another senior RIRA member Seamus Mc Creavy, to run a drug dealing operation, had Kieran told your leadership what he was doing, your organisation would have had no problem with him?
A. That is a lie, we do not tolerate drug dealing or drug dealers, and we have recently knee capped drug dealers in Belfast.
Q. Listen, the reason your organisation shoot people in the knees is in order to silence the community and share in the profits of drug dealing just as the Provos done before you. You and I know that those within your ranks who shoot people in the knees are cowards who don’t have the balls to take on the Brits and indeed as we seen with Freddie, many touts and informers are allowed to engage in that type of low profile activity to get access to intelligence on behalf of their handlers.
A. That is totally untrue we shoot those who we believe are a threat to our communities, we are not the Provos we have our own leadership and our own plan for the way forward.
Q. Surely the difficulty for your organisation is that you are simply wearing the Provos clothes and like the Provos your organisation will be infiltrated to the neck with touts, agents and informers, and that young men and women will be imprisoned and thousands of Brits will be kept in good jobs thanks to your criminality?
A. We do not tolerate criminality, we do not engage in criminality, we are an Irish liberation organisation and we are prepared for the long war.
Q. Well that is a load of nonsense as well you know, Mc Kevitt and company are only interested in profiteering from criminality. However, back to the reason for your existence, can I put it to you that your leadership Mc Kevitt, Campbell and company are responsible for the deaths of dozens of PIRA volunteers. Is it true to say that while Mc Kevitt and company were involved in secret talks with M16, that M15 and the SAS were wiping out dozens of PIRA volunteers in Fermanagh and Tyrone in particular, 28 in total between 1986-1992.
A. Mc Guinness was the one talking to M16 not Mc Kevitt or Campbell, Mc Guinness is a traitor and he and Adams sold out to the Brits so that they could sit in Stormont and play politics.
Q. Mc Guinness may well have been the one engaged in the meetings with M16, however, it was Mc Kevitt and company who sanctioned those meetings, I put it to you again that Mc Kevitt split the republican movement over personal and petty reasons rather than any fundamental political flaw, as did O’Bradaigh before him in 1986?
A. I can’t say why Mc Kevitt split the organisation, my view is that he did not want to be part of a sell out and neither do those of us within the RIRA and CIRA; the war must go on until Ireland is free from Brit occupation.
Q. Personally, I think that you are being very dishonest, you know that Mc Kevitt, Campbell, Slab Murphy and others are nothing less than criminals who have filled their bank accounts while good Irish men, women and children have been butchered to death. Does your organisation have a military strategy?
A. It is no secret that we are now stronger than ever before, many former comrades in the Provos have now joined our ranks and many young people have now been recruited and trained, we will strike at the Brits and their collaborators as and when possible.
Q. Do the dissident groupings have the capacity to hit the British on their home soil as it appears that you have been unable to strike in England for almost a decade?
A. Yes, we have the capacity to strike at the heart of England and that will be a priority for us in the coming months, we will also maintain our campaign in the north and our primary targets will be the Brits and their collaborators, commercial targets will be a secondary consideration as we must maximise our resources.
Q. Your organisation claimed the murder of Dennis Donaldson in Donegal, but dogs on the street know that Dennis Donaldson was murdered by a senior member of the East Tyrone Brigade of the PIRA (TC), why did your organisation claim that cowardly act?
A. I do not know who executed Dennis Donaldson, but I do know that he was executed because he had admitted he was an M15 agent for several decades.
Q. I put it to you again, Dennis Donaldson was a member of Sinn Finn/PIRA, and it was a member of the PIRA that murdered him, why did your organisation claim that murder?
A. Because he was a self confessed British Agent.
Q. Let me put it to you this way, your organisation claimed the murder of Dennis Donaldson, because the PIRA said you could as it was too politically sensitive for them to have anything to do with, your organisation are nothing more than a proxy for the provos?
A. That is not the case, personally I don’t think we should have claimed responsibility for Donaldson’s execution but that was a leadership decision.
Q. The Dissidents say that they view Mc Guinness and Adams as traitors indeed Mc Guinness has described the dissident leadership as traitors, so why are you not shooting each other, do you not have the balls to take on the Provos, do you find it easier to shoot children?
A. I am not in a position to say what will or will not take place in relation to the Provo traitors, we are focused on fighting the Brits and don’t at this time want to get distracted by internal disputes.
Q. Again your being dishonest, your organisation can kidnap and shoot ordinary citizens within yards of the homes of senior Sinn Fein members, I put it to you that your organisations don’t have the balls to take on the provos, and that you find it easier to knee-cap children?
A. I don’t accept that, we will do what we feel is best for our organisations, in terms of gaining in strength and support, we are in this for the long war and we don’t want at this time to deal with internal republican disputes.
Q. In the wake of the of Liam Adams exposure, is it fair to conclude that there are many similar deviants within your own ranks and that those deviants will be protected at any cost as long as they stay on board with your organisations.
A. It is an outrage to suggest that we would protect sex criminals within our ranks, we do not tolerate any criminality and where that criminality is brought to our attention we will deal with it.
Q. I think that is a lie, your membership were heavily involved with Christy Griffin in Dublin before he was sentenced to life for raping a child, your members knew about those crimes and yet you continued to do business with Christy, the same can be said of Eddie in north Belfast and indeed many of your members socialised with Liam Adams when he lived in Dundalk?
A. I can’t say what went on in Dublin, but I do know that our leadership is dedicated to stamping our criminality within our ranks if such criminality is found.
Q. In the aftermath of the provo cease-fire in 1994 you and others continued to be engaged in criminal activity, namely murdering drug dealers as they were refusing to pay protection money to the provos, the Brits gave you licence to carry-out that activity by describing it as Internal-house-keeping, surely your activities suits the Brits as they have now been able to set up M15 headquarters in the north?
A. I would agree that the Brits would have done anything to help Adams and Mc Guinness to stay in the peace process, and I would agree that as provos at that time we had a free hand to do as we pleased, we were able to kill and knee-cap, rob at will, but no such hands off approach is being adopted towards the dissidents.
Q. Have you ever considered the fact that the provos are planting some of their men within your ranks in order to get good intelligence that they can feed back to the security services?
A. We are constantly vigilant about informers and agents, but that is the way it has always been, those who join our ranks will be fully blooded and if they are touts they will sink with the rest of us.
Q. A few weeks back your organisation almost murdered three children in Lurgan, if that had happened would you have ended your campaign?
A. The simple answer is No, there will always be casualties of war, it would have been a tragedy but that’s the reality of war.
Q. I put it to you that your members are cowards that your membership finds it easier to plant a bomb than take the Brits on face to face?
A. We have to use the personnel and equipment at our disposal to the best of our ability; we have nothing to gain by having our men arrested or our equipment confiscated, so bombs carry a lower risk to our resources.
Q. Yesterday the Brits up graded the threat from the dissident groupings, is that up grading based on a realistic threat from your organisations or is it Brit spin to keep their security budgets in tact?
A. We have the capacity and the determination to hit the Brits at home in the coming months, as Suzanne Breen said on the news yesterday evening, one bomb in England is worth ten bombs in the north, I would say a hundred bombs in the north if we hit the right target, we have learned from recent successful attacks by Muslim activists and we will be adopting our tactics to maximise our national and international profile.
Q. Finally, thanks for this interview, I am convinced that the dissident groupings are driven by criminality, I am convinced that you are on the road to nowhere, that you have no legitimacy, that you are recruiting and training children to do the dirty work of criminal Godfathers most of whom are traitors to the republican cause and that the end result of your criminality with be the death of more innocent people.
A. I disagree, we will do our upmost not to kill civilians and our campaign will help bring about a united Ireland from British rule.
For a full history of militant republicanism see: irishrepublicanarmy-ira.blogspot.com
