The area was cordoned off and at 1st light this morning british Army Technical experts went in to examine the bodies and yes they had been booby trapped. Do you think might be responsible when you ask anybody around here and theyll tell you. First says with what we describe as the murder triangle portadown to the doctor off mccloy where there have been more sectarian assassinations or head of the population than anywhere else nor the lone. Wolf thing is there not a single one has been sort of meet amenable to justice for the. Assassinations of birders usually the u. V. If you do they are there my 5 and my 6 politicians on murder ok. The borderland of south armagh an area of ireland steeped in celtic mythology where the ghosts of colon queen may have been a code and. Haunt the countrys many barely cairns crypt. Its rugged slopes green scenes and sweeping plains reach out to the fuse that cradle the resting places of 18th Century Ports such as our could could park much along than and shamus more much more of. A land where ancient quarrels have been settled but yet find time to read night. Theres an ironic tragedy between the beauty of this night and the dark secrets at home its. A follow up my mother in the late sixtys and they got married and set up home and all foster. At the time my father was working in the rolls royce factory in belfast. Until some of us were college find out he was a catholic and he had to leave. It and worked as a postman in the area for a while at this stage we were living in the some millis area of belfast. Bad there are a small number of catholic families living in the area at the time and on weve been warned on a number of occasions it was time to leave it and i suppose the final straw for us was one of our almost after one of our near neighbors at windowsills and mommy and daddy all this he said is not state it was time to move out of all foster on the decision was taken to move on at that stage. And from birmingham mommy wanted to move there she felt would be safer but my father loved the countryside so tom ox. Well we ended up there. I suppose my last recollections of my father are leaving to go to the hospital to visit my sister she was only 2 years old at the time. Not really the last that i can remember of seeing them going out through the front door to visit them in the hospital. d particular even. With my fall on the intention was to stop it on the spot on the way home and i was out of character is drunk with his workmates. They dont need just to write about the same time as the. Man killing him almost immediately michael dont leave the bar owner sean into the bar head banging the door. Into the bar boy who spread the inside of the building with bullets. On the number of other individuals and seriously injuring them then threw in a bomb. That might hold only in the back of their head who killed him almost instantly. The bomb exploded. My father was probably already dead because hed been shot and before long. I came to walk in islands in 981. 00 and i found myself increasingly drawn to cases of miscarriage of justice when nobody else was taking a particular interest and also in the potential for the state to take life illegally and as a journalist youre always looking for stories that nobody else is investigating it was an ordinary sunday morning and i was reading the paper and a name sprang out of the page at me bracknell somebody. Bracknell had been killed in south. And i thought breck no thats not a south. So i managed to contact the family and went down to meet them and. Witnesses from the scene. Had been killed explained to his widow who was sitting in the room with me exactly what has happened and it was a shocking shocking experience it was the fast time that an bracknell as her husband had been mad i think the shock of what we found a. Home to the family really how little we know about my fathers killing and he was actually responsible for it. I found my news desk expecting them to leap on the story and say give us everything youve got but the interaction was quite different it was oh no not enough a catholic sob story. I was just so so disappointed in her. Reaction to what ive discovered. Pushed for the story to be written under the end it was. In and around this time from started to emerge about what would be enormous loyalist attacks in the area. I suppose i didnt know much more about watertown other than the other group called a right wing commando claimed responsibility for the attack. So at this time i was beginning to ask questions of myself about what i did or didnt know but what i actually help and i started to ask questions of local people about what they remembered about what they knew about the night and but we didnt know it really know where to go to try and find out if. Someone mentioned to me the Population Center in derry help families in similar situations to ourselves. I think it was 1009. 100 the office very softly spoken very friendly he was wearing a suit and we thought a photocopy or or a printer. And instead he began to tell us about the attack on the bar and about his dad and what happened on the background he was aware that there was not david available where we made a number of very serious allegations or collusion behavior and a number of attacks on the area. So we agreed we would look at it in detail and look at all the different attacks that happened in the area at the time it was all very new deals. Up to the point weve been active in a number of cases weve been knocked her own plautus on the. Blood is on the Justice Campaign was was based on the office and we agreed to call together a meeting of witnesses and the g. Open and silverbridge and what to says came forward a lot of witnesses came forward. And i suppose the significance of the meeting was that you had families with evidence and information but you also had witnesses the events on the significance of this being that there were so many connections so many permutations so many leads to follow and obviously these had never been followed by official bodies or for people in Authority Even little its being hugely influential moderate than weve lived with us you know this is the we need to do we need to take this forward and you know what happened in my home in my law firm was killed in the incident is connected to what happened on the road is connected the happened over just across the other country what happened to neil or part of that day was partial in the sense that if we were in the room we appointed to you day there a witness to something the how to lead a piece of evidence that connected to another one the connected to and the what really was unfolding was the sense that there was this gang the Security Force people are supposed to protect people supposed to bring people there just those who are actually conducting these killings and county in the moat. You might imagine that in a normal situation theyd been theyd been asked to give statements that the police would have asked them for statements this hadnt happened and they came forward and we began to realise. We were going to something much much bigger. As we began to research this under talk to people in the local area many of them told us so there was actually an officer involved in the original list was actually in charge although he was novice or very little rank that they believed was a person of integrity they believed he tried to get to the bottom of this but couldnt. He talked to the families a number of times over the years and they the families told us that he will be an absolutely fighter person for us to talk to. Families of those killed in an attack on a bench 24 years ago have appealed for a fresh inquiry into the day. So we arranged a press conference. And appealed for him to come forward we thought of the unlikely but in fact he did and he made contact with us shortly afterwards through a journalist. It was quite an extraordinary making to many ways we were accompanied by a number of family members and this Police Officer who still serve and made a number of statements i mean that made austria lace a what we were looking up was actually a much wider range of attacks. Was the. Thing to come out of the meeting which was the term he used permutations of the same guy were also responsible for the other attacks and so. Called mccartney in august 1985 who are returning from the final. And also that. Of me in 1074. And were going to be. Possible for the people. Come on you know we its all bots to. Be really really. Pretty good. Now you want to 1st correct that. You know. Because theres financial Survival Guide book stacie just like all the stores simply have all the services. You dont stand a. Good Space Missions look at the last 7 years. Still of the 7 year olds keyser or. Join me every thursday on the alec simon show and ill be speaking to get off of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. Is youll be d. A reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe from. The isolation or community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. Direct. What is truth lost his faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or a made in the shallows. Something seemed wrong but all in all just dont call. Me old yet to shape out these days become agitated and engagement because betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. In a series of coordinated attacks during rush hour traffic 3 no warning bombs exploded causing mayhem across the city center. 11 people were killed in parnell street 14 including an unborn child in tall but street and 2 women in side street and almost simultaneous attacks. 90 minutes later 7 people were killed when the gang planted another bomb in the center of. The gang had affected their deadliest attack yet. I got involved in 993 i mesh with some of the families and i was helping them very much on an ad hoc basis to begin with so it wasnt until 1996 that we began to get things more organized and we caution legal team grego nadler solicitor and karma got to look on barrister we gave the organization then the name justice for the for that was in january of 96. We went on then to try to get the Irish Government to provide a Public Inquiry into the dublin mom and bombings all doors were closed to us on terror 999 which was the 25th anniversary of the bombings and the family mash by the then tasia and for the 1st time. The jury. Will be present. To. Those who were present at the tourists who were told. I was in the 1st instance the 1st were grown to 22000000 freeways we would say on this important there is. Only hope to go to them on the 42nd anniversary. When i was walking and. The westfield motor company. On the character men for a little bit. And out of the living in the almighty bang. And thats i remember was the priest. To me you have solution. On down. And im going from those going around to the hospital and had another explosion. And then i woke up i was 7 i was. Just i woke up in a log. I was pronounced dead in the royal. Well you know where was actually. Moaning i wonder they got to know what an author of from the hospital cheetham over she ran out she got the power. They command those broads casuistry. Straight up to tell you theres ready and i was. And i was 3 months in his hands carry on in a coma. It took an awful long time to an explosion. On. And i remember. And as a child it. When the doorbell would ring or Something Like that id always go into the front room and look at the window to see who was there expecting that she had just. Been hit on the head to head and remember something and compactness. This went on for months and months and months and to him if i would see somebody else kind of had a hairstyle like our look like im from the back of his house from his heart. You know very very difficult not having closure. Although at that time the pad for new consent and justice for the gotten was beginning to investigate the activities of the glen im going already to very ordinary catholic priests living in the area have done a fair amount of investigation themselves they do even started rushing to the newspapers and trying to get the 2 governments involved because they realize that there must be a cohesive gehring working in the so called murder trial carrying out these murders that have to be there were too many of them they did everything they could to highlight it after one series of 17 much as they should a statement saying that they are you see had a 100 percent failure rate in convicting anyone for these murders they went to dublin they went to belfast they wrote letters to the papers yet it seems that the police would just not interested. And that is why you have no go areas but there you go and on the other this will. It was a friend of mine and he visited presence of course and he was very interesting what was going on and around on jan and we saw that there were a lot of murders in what we call the triangle going down an area right into the my and over to for a guide and as we were getting the list of all the stats and then i decided that we should list them publish them and publish the 1st. On the subject at the triangle of death and it was a name that was taken up by the media because ever afterwards they talked about it and the border triangle so we left the time and the Little Information we had from relatives at the time. And published the path which. Had went very quickly a show we published a 2nd when the word additions to it me published a 3rd for a couple of more editions snow that became a saturday central document and. We noticed that. So many of these murders were hot and it seemed to us that the roads were open for these murders to come in and kill people and get over on and get away again. It was an architect or sharkey after 10 i got up and went in house shared ads. And told me and we were standing on the house floor for. Thing and i tore down yeah so our return back to left and right. The door. Went inside and. So no way to set them on the table. Heard him say. To know you better me here im not going. And. By the tone of his voice. And to manhattan through the front door. That has. No wall found. And with a automatic you know. Just lay there for a moment theres. No crawler trying. To hard. To code for. One of the children. And she came. Home to. Her father had. 3 broken. Down across the road. And he came. From a way to create. An. Air through. Must have been about him. For wakes at peace came to do or. Say had to they had to. Come i dared to ask or text somebody with men they said no youre better on your own. I did get. Back of the car now who wants. To find all strange not a sinner and that i know. And when i got there they told me. I had to go into this room they were selling to me and. Could. See that they were nice and i thought i. Had been in. The door and it was on the mound inside the door but he stayed there on the other place mom said. Not to walk up this room langham am. Dead reckoning face i just couldnt. Go to the end of the nagging. Not come back take. A worse thought. Out of me it to keep on the response made. Me to to recognize them the message as. I was in the state soon they let me through the door into the hallway to compose from a sound. Go back in. Time. But i. Dont know. I know what. I know from. What i told them yes. Seem wrong. Just told. You that hes yet to shape out disdain. And in the game equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart. Choose to look for common ground. The world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. The dares thinks. We dare to ask. Nuclear power become a battleground in the us in vermont people love demanding the shutdown of a local plant from my yankee is right now my focus because its a very dangerous oh no claire power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limits this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on wheres the power in this country wheres it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional participatory democracy is or powerline with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real ways our struggle on auti. People eat it up eat. When will. It be. Coronavirus cases spike outside china moscow denies accusations of a campaign thats allegedly undermining the Global Response to the epidemic. Is. The militant group in the syrian capital and in the i. D. F. Members of the border fence. Being described as a far reaching and historic. Wiki leaks founder. 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