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7 Apr 2011 SCOTLAND has a history of links to Northern Ireland's terrorist organisations. One of the first Scots involved in the Republican violence in the Troubles was Glasgow-born Hugh Doherty, whose brother Pat has been a vice-president of Sinn Fein. He was noted for his role in the Balcombe Street Siege in London in December 1975, at the resolution of which he was sentenced to 11 terms of life imprisonment for murder, with a judicial recommendation he serve at least 30 years. Doherty and his fellow Provisionals had targeted off-duty soldiers, policemen and politicians as part of the IRA's UK mainland campaign and are believed to have killed journalist Ross McWhirter, who had offered a reward for their arrest, and Gordon Hamilton-Fairley, a medical professor mistaken for the Tory Sir Hugh Fraser. In June 1985, police arrested Brighton Bomber Patrick Magee in a flat above a pub in the Govanhill area of Glasgow. Magee had escaped to Holland after Brighton, but later returned to Britain. He was arrested along with several other members of a Provisional IRA cell including Martina Anderson, who is now a member of the Stormont Assembly. Another Scot to join the ranks of the Provisionals was Greenock-born Michael Dickson, known as Dixie Dickson. The 47-year-old former British soldier was convicted by German authorities of carrying out a June 1996 mortar attack on a British Army base at Osnabruck, Germany. Dickson was also suspected of involvement in the 1996 car bombing of the British Army's Northern Ireland HQ in Lisburn in which Warrant Officer James Bradwell was killed and 34 civilians injured. <http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/scotland-s-historic-links-to-t errorism-violence-1.1094991?localLinksEnabled=false> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
