Special Branch - They Haven't Gone Away You Know!

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I think you will find that the State knew all about the Omagh bomb before it went off. There are a lot of unanswered questions around that tragedy.

Personally I would agree with you that limited guerrilla actions arent going to get us anywhere real BUT that doesnt change of the occupying state and make them some nuetral force.

Yes I understand there are many unanswered questions surrounding Omagh,and people can rant and rave about British involvement but at the end of the day if that bomb was not constructed, put into a vehicle and driven to Omagh and left there set to explode lives would not have been lost. These acts are reckless, and will without a doubt lead to the loss of many Irish lives if they continue.

I definitely do not see the British as a nuetral force, I am old enough to remember our dark days and the treatment our community recieved from the British Soldiers. So much has changed since then and the violence of the past which these criminals are trying to drag us back into is definitely not justified. We have Political representitives doing all the fighting that we need. Yes a slow and frustrating process but that is Politics and without a doubt better that the alternative that the criminals want for us.

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No sign of the expert Brit watcher merle haggard yet!? And to think he was severley reprimanding me a couple of weeks back on the grounds that there was no such thing as Special Branch!

The Irish News has made the startling claim that John Brady killed himself after PSNI special branch made an attempt to recruit him as an informer . That is despite the fact there is no such thing as PSNI special branch - it simply does not exist . The people tasked with recruiting agents within the ranks of republican militants are MI5 and its associated military intelligence departments.

The Irish News also made this claim alongside their assertion John Brady killed himself after a visit from a non existant department of the PSNI.

the Irish news is attempting to paint a picture of a non existant branch of the PSNI visiting this man , making him an offer to be an informer for a non existant branch of the PSNI , and him inexplicably taking his own life some hours later . This is a scenario they and they alone have conjured up from thin air , for reasons only they themselves can explain .

I was foolish enough to take merle at his word (regarding the lack of a Special Branch). I certainly won't be doing that again! My apologies to Barry McCaffery of the Irish News and David McKittrick of The Independent, who are both journalists of high repute.