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Inquiry launched into collusion between RUC and IRA

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Friday March 09, 2007 14:10author by tom eile

During the Scooter Libby trial which ended this week , it was revealed that governments like to release bad news on a Friday on the assumption that most stories that appear on a Saturday are not followed up.
We can expect tomorrow's news to be dominated by the north’s local council elections results ,so all around, it would seem like a good day to announce the launch of an inquiry into collusion between the RUC and the IRA’s security department

“It is thought that a number of IRA killers were protected from prosecution because they were working as agents for Special Branch and other agencies.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/643...5.stm

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author by tom eilepublication date Fri Mar 09, 2007 15:02author address author phone

Coincidentaly ,there’s another collusion story today on the bbc .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/642...3.stm

for background see :
http://saoirse32.blogspot.com/2004_05_30_saoirse32_arch....html

that saoirse link
author by tom eilepublication date Fri Mar 09, 2007 15:32author address author phone

It's a bit hard to follow that saoirse link . For those interested ,the collusion story I referred to is about the tenth blog down under the heading :
Second Stakeknife' statement is issued .Man denies British agent claims

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/81404

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