The duplicitous posturing by Hugh Orde and other Mi5 sockpuppets in recent days has been exposed as a smokescreen by two articles in Today's Irish News.

Dissidents targeted for two years

By Barry McCaffrey
http://www.irishnews.com/irishnews/5...issidents.html
07/03/09

BRITISH army ‘special forces’ units have already been actively targeting dissident republicans in Northern Ireland for more than two years.

Yesterday the PSNI chief constable announced that he had asked for the deployment of the British army’s shadowy Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR) to target dissident republicans.

Sir Hugh Orde said the special forces unit would have “no operational role” in the north.

“We are talking about a very small number of people who increase my technical capacity. They have no operational role,” he said.

“They support my policing operations, which are undertaken by my police officers.”

However, last October The Irish News revealed how a special unit was already operating against dissidents when nine members of a special forces unit carried out surveillance on three suspected dissident republicans arrested in connection with a mortar-bomb find near Lurgan, Co Armagh, in March 2007.

At that time Secretary of State Shaun Woodward issued public-interest immunity (PII) certificates banning the soldiers or their unit from being identified.

PII certificates also banned any mention of the elite unit’s tactics or technical capabilities.

In October last year the soldiers gave evidence via satellite from Afghanistan and Iraq, where they were stationed.

In court a Ministry of Defence spokesman confirmed that the soldiers were part of an elite special forces unit “capable of carrying out difficult and dangerous surveillance activities”.

“The number of special forces is only a small fraction of the total number of soldiers in the army and the number with the particular skills of the soldiers in this case is only a small fraction of the number of soldiers in special forces,” he said.

“Their skills are rare and highly valued.”

It was suggested that training for each soldier cost £200,000.

It was the first time in more than two decades that a member of a British army special forces unit had given evidence in person to a northern court.

It was also the first time that it was publicly acknowledged that British army special forces units were being used to target dissident republicans.

More details of the special forces activities in Northern Ireland are expected to be revealed when the hearings restart later this month.

The chief constable’s failure to inform the Policing Board of his decision to request the use of special forces was heavily criticised by the SDLP and Sinn Fein, which both held emergency talks with Sir Hugh yesterday.

Sinn Fein deputy first minister Martin McGuinness described the move as “stupid and dangerous”.

He said the decision to reintroduce special forces to the north had “shaken his confidence” in the chief constable.

Mr McGuinness said he had raised the matter with British prime minister Gordon Brown and Taoiseach Brian Cowen.

“The history of the north has shown that many of these forces have been as much a danger to the community as any other group,” he said.

SDLP assembly member Dolores Kelly said the decision to use the controversial unit in the north “raised the issue of who is in control”.

“At lunchtime on Thursday, the PSNI were telling the Policing Board the British army would not be deployed save for bomb squad support,” she said.

“But by teatime we learn that British army recon units are deployed.

“There is an immediate issue of who made this decision, when it was made and what the PSNI did not know or knew and did not tell the Policing Board.”


Special forces never left, says ex-spymaster

By Barry McCaffrey
http://www.irishnews.com/irishnews/5...Specialfo.html
07/03/09

A FORMER British army spymaster said last night that anyone who believed that British army “special forces” were not active in Northern Ireland was “living in cloud-cuckoo-land”.

Martin Ingram was a staff sergeant with the British army’s Force Research Unit (Fru) in Northern Ireland for more than 12 years.

The British army whistle-blower is understood to have played a key role in exposing the murky world of the north’s intelligence agencies, including the state’s involvement in the murder of its own citizens.

In the late 1990s the Fru was revealed to have been involved in more than a dozen murders through its agent Brian Nelson and in passing on the personal details of hundreds of nationalists to the UDA.

At Nelson’s trial his Fru commanding officer, Brigadier Gordon Kerr, pictured right, claimed the agent had saved hundreds of lives.

That claim was later discredited by Britain’s leading police officer Sir John Stevens.

There was speculation last night that Mr Kerr was now in charge of the Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR).

Ingram is also credited as having helped to expose former IRA man Freddie Scappaticci as the British army agent Stakeknife.

Responding to Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde’s announcement that he had asked for special forces to be deployed to the north, Ingram said: “Anyone who thinks that the special forces ever left Northern Ireland is living in cloud-cuckoo-land.

“They never went away.

“They have always had the capability to mount any operation they want here at a moment’s notice.”

The SRR was set up in 2005 in the latest in a long line of name changes to the north’s intelligence agencies.

It amalgamated with the 14th Intelligence Company, which previously operated in the north throughout the Troubles alongside the Fru.

While the Fru ran informers within republican and loyalist paramilitaries, the 14th Intelligence Company and now the SRR carry out surveillance operations, including the bugging of suspects’ cars and houses.

There are thought to be around 150 MI5 officers based at the British agency’s new state-of-the-art headquarters at Palace Barracks near Holywood, Co Down.

The Fru, now known as the Joint Support Group, is thought to have around 50 undercover soldiers in the north carrying out human intelligence operations handling informers.

It is estimated that up to 20 members of the SRR unit will be deployed to the north in the near future.

A British army spokesman last night refused to comment on claims that Mr Kerr was now the head of the SRR.

Operation Banner didn't end until July 2007.....yawn.

You're not allowed to tell the truth here - this is a southern Irish website!

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In order for evil to succeed...and so on..everyone knows it..

That just means that they do believe you but just dont give a toss.

Shout 'IRA' and watch them all home in on it like loyalists lol!

its these british people wholl stick the next car bomb in dublin , just like they did before . These people who control and corrupt their own gardai in a criminal and treasonus fashion that poisons their entire democratic well.
But thats what happens to the stupid , the arrogant , the ignorant and useless . history just repeats on them