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The evolution of Martin McGuinness – from high school dropout and IRA man to political leader seeking an end to violence and, finally, his emergence as Northern ....
Died: March 16, 2021. IT was the moment, Charles Moore recollects in the first volume of his biography of Margaret Thatcher, when the SAS, previously relatively little known, became a household word for heroism. On May 5, 1980, teams from 22 SAS stormed the Iranian embassy in Princes Gate, in South Kensington, London, dramatically ending a siege that had begun on April 30 when six heavily-armed terrorists had taken 26 people hostage. The gunmen had demanded the release of 91 Arabs imprisoned in Khuzestan, a region in southern Iran for whose independence they claimed to be fighting. They threatened to blow up the embassy if their demands were not met by noon the following day. Police closed off the area and took over neighbouring buildings. ....
Ivor Bell wins legal battle to overturn conviction for assisting Gerry Adams attempt to escape jail Veteran republican Ivor Bell. Picture By Hugh Russell 19 May, 2021 14:50 The former Long Kesh/Maze prison A VETERAN republican has won his legal battle to overturn a conviction for assisting in Gerry Adams attempt to escape from jail. Senior judges in Belfast granted 84-year-old Ivor Bell s appeal against being found guilty of aiding the former Sinn Féin President s bid to break out of the Maze Prison during the 1970s. The decision was based on a Supreme Court ruling that Mr Adams had been unlawfully detained. ....
BBC News Published image captionIvor Bell challenged the legality of the verdict reached against him Former IRA leader Ivor Bell has won his appeal against being found guilty of helping Gerry Adams in his attempt to break out of prison during the 1970s. Mr Adams was interned without trial. This was a practice that was introduced in Northern Ireland amid spiralling violence in the early 1970s. More than 1,900 people suspected of being members of paramilitary organisations were detained, but many were arrested based on flawed intelligence. Mr Adams has consistently denied being a member of the IRA. Supreme Court justices had held that the interim custody order (ICO) relating to Mr Adams was invalid because it had not been personally authorised by the Northern Ireland Secretary at the time, Willie Whitelaw. ....