Join me every thursday on the alex im unsure when ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. In dublin the Campaign Group justice for the forgotten had for years been demanding a Public Inquiry into the dublin amman bombings. It still took 7 years for the Irish Government 6 years after the iras 994. 00 cease fire to agree to a strict and form of inquiry under Justice Henry bar on the inquiry found in his own careful words and despite london refusing to cooperate with the inquiry that the case for collusion was neither fanciful nor absurd. Crucially however for the families bereaved by other glennon murders north of the border foreign published a full appendix listing the ballistic links between other key attacks after publication of the barn report it became obvious to most of those still no response from the state. Very serious allegations of criminality were not can be investigated that there was going to be no response and so
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See the u. D. R. Who were involved directly in these killings who are in collusion with them and their activities their illegal activities according to the evidence we received were known to their immediate superiors putting a number of chief inspectors and inspectors where we were not able to ascertain if the time is how far up the chain of command this went we do know the senior authorities in london on notice of information that should have caused them to conduct further investigations of this collusion in Northern Ireland we found no no indication that they took that obligation seriously. The next big step change came when they historically Inquiries Team was set up to investigate all the unsolved matters of the conflict which quickly was broadened to all. The conflicts and within that. Organization the agency that was a special team set out to investigate claims of collusion aware the state was allegedly involved in the matter as it was headed by a particularly intelligent determi
World of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. Amanda margaret found it impossible to touch the man she witnessed shooting her husband at point blank range was robin jackson. Jackson was a portadown loyalist who became one of the conflicts most prolific killers. He was also an r. U. C. Agent nicknamed the jackal. 5 days before pat campbells murder a man in whose home police had found 64 kilograms of explosives 2 grenades and over 5000 rounds of assorted ammunition had named jackson as his accomplice. However police failed to arrest jackson meanwhile he is of liberty to murder part campbell. Jackson of being a member of the Ulster Defense regiment then the largest regiment in the british army. He was later involved in the massacre of the Miami Showband in july 975 when 3 band members were killed by members of the clan and gang as they attempted to plant a bomb on the musicians boss. Loyalist paramilitaries horace boyle and Wesley Somerville were killed instantly as
Irish government 6 years after the hour a 1904 cease fire to agree to a restricted form of inquiry under Justice Henry byron the inquiry found in his own careful words and despite london refusing to cooperate with the inquiry that the case for collusion was neither fanciful nor absurd. Crucially however for the families bereaved by other glennon martyrs north of the border byron published a full appendix listing the ballistic links between other key attacks. After publication of the barn report it became obvious that there was still no response from the state. Very serious allegations of criminality were not can be investigated that there was going to be no response and so we decided that we should respond we should bring people in and their National Figures so we approached a number of people u. N. Investigators who were to el salvador people whod worked on the set off Interest Commission and others academics lawyers peoples experience and we invited them to ireland and i asked them t