'Jarked': Shankill Road bomb: IRA double-agent
'deliberately set device to explode prematurely'
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=171881#171881
Former IRA comrades claim man 'jarked' bomb to
cause more civilian casualties and weaken those opposed to ceasefire
Mick Browne Monday 25 January 20162 comments
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/shankill-road-bomb-ira-double-agent-deliberately-set-device-to-explode-prematurely-a6833581.html
The ex-IRA man reported to have been a security
force double-agent who tipped off his handlers
about the October 1993 Shankill Road bombing is
suspected by a number of former Belfast IRA
comrades of having deliberately “jarked” the
device so it exploded prematurely, to cause
maximum civilian casualties and so weaken the
“hawk” wing within the Provos opposed to an IRA ceasefire.
This means the Shankill bombing joins a list of
Troubles incidents that are being investigated
over alleged security force or service complicity
by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI),
or judicial reviews and inquests. These include
the Omagh bombing in 1998, when the Real IRA
slaughtered 29 people and two unborn twins and
maimed hundreds, the loyalist “UVF” 1974
Dublin-Monaghan bombings which killed 34 and
injured hundreds, Bloody Sunday, Bloody Friday,
and claims about an IRA double-agent codenamed
“Stakenife”, who is said to have murdered scores
of people while working for the security forces.
Republicans in Belfast say the alleged informer
almost fled last year only to be persuaded by a
leading Sinn Fein politician to bluff his way
against the allegations surfacing against him
because Sinn Fein was desperate to avoid negative
publicity about the extent of the IRA being
penetrated by the security forces, ahead of last year’s general election.
Although the man oversaw a number of “successful”
IRA operations to kill top loyalists, and on
occasion security force members, questions have
been asked about to what extent IRA members were set up for capture or worse.
IRA men Thomas “Bootsy” Begley and Sean Kelly
walked into Frizzel’s packed fish mongers on the
Shankill Road in October 1993 with orders to
clear it of customers and then detonate an
explosive device, aimed at loyalist
paramilitaries believed to be meeting upstairs.
The device was reportedly a “directional” device,
intended to explode upwards, bringing down the
ceiling. But it reportedly exploded virtually as
soon as Begley carried it to the counter, killing
him and eight others and injuring Kelly as well
as dozens of passersby. That “botched” bombing
generated a series of loyalist revenge attacks in
which 14 people were murdered and scores more injured.
The alleged informer “mastermind” – known by his
security force code of “AA” – was reportedly
unmasked by the IRA as early as perhaps 2002,
shortly after the IRA raided the RUC base at
Castlereagh in 2001 and stole and deciphered
encrypted Special Branch files on IRA agents.
The informant came to hold a high-ranking
position with the Provos, despite overseeing a
series of IRA blunders leading up to the Shankill atrocity.
For instance, ex-IRA men have identified “AA” as
having been directly involved in the murder of
innocent father-of-three Henry Babington, a
laboratory analyst, in north Belfast in October
1989. This still-unsolved murder caused the IRA
huge embarrassment after it quickly emerged the
two gunmen who shot the Catholic sailing
enthusiast dead as he walked to work one morning
had mistaken him for a “renegade Catholic”
working for the security forces and led loyalist
terrorists to target IRA members.
This case is believed to be one of nearly 60
being investigated by the Police Ombudsman over
allegations, similar to the latest Shankill
claims, that branches of the security forces or
service were informed by agents of impending
attacks but allowed some to go ahead. As with the
later Shankill bombing, there was an internal IRA
investigation but in neither case was “AA’s”
alleged role uncovered by the IRA’s Internal Security department.
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But “AA” is said to have confessed recently that
he had had possession of the bomb used in the
Shankill Road in October 1993 before it was handed over to Begley and Kelly.
Ex-IRA prisoners say they strongly believe “AA”
was given the go-ahead by his handlers to “jark”
the device. Asked how this could have been done,
one former prisoner said: “It would have been
easily booby-trapped. Those carrying it would not
have known the timer could have been altered.
They would have been given 45 seconds to clear
the premises and then detonate the device, giving
them time to also get out, but not those upstairs
who were the target. But, if it was a time-lag
switch, it could have been secretly adjusted, without a doubt.”
Another ex-prisoner said, “Not all IRA men
supported the peace process, a great many hated
it. This could have been allowed to go off, it is
speculated, just like Omagh, to undermine those
hostile to peace. And the slaughter on the road
would have led a lot of men and women volunteers
to personally reconsider their own roles. It was a disaster for the ‘army’.”
One of the most surprising elements of the story
is why the IRA allowed “AA” to continue living
within his community even after discovering in
2002 that he was an informant. There are
suggestions that it wanted to keep his treachery
secret to avoid the embarrassing revelation of
how fully the organisation had been infiltrated by the security services.
Reports over the years suggested that the IRA had
been unable to decipher the Special Branch
documents, but it can now be revealed that –
after recruiting a former prisoner turned top
academic, who in turn recruited a small team of
helpers – the IRA did indeed establish the extent
to which it had been penetrated by the British state.
One ex-Belfast prisoner said: “This will be
totally devastating for the IRA’s credibility. It
raises massive questions for the state, as to
what extent it allowed its own citizens to die,
who made those decisions and can they ever be made amenable.
“But for the IRA the questions will now start to
re-emerge as to what extent volunteers and
supporters were sacrificed by agents in the
ranks, and what has the IRA done to rectify this, if anything?”
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