The grenade and rocket attacks on the Falls Road

 After he stepped down from the IRA I maintained some contact with Michael Mc Manus of CIRA/Republican Sinn Fein and met him frequently over the summer of 1987 after the Loughgall Ambush.

I maintained my posture against the RUC ignoring the threat posed by British Army thugs.

It was Michael Mc Manus who communicated to me in February 1983 that I was the new Director of Operations (Northern Command) "whether you like it or not". There were no other witnesses to my appointment as D.O. (N.C.) who I know since Michael Mc Manus is dead and I do not know who appointed me to that role.

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During the summer of 1987, accurate memory fails me,I briefed Mick on killing yet more RUC members.

I said to him that the Makrolon cladding on police Land rover would withstand  a Rocket Propelled Grenade but that a rocket propelled grenade would penetrate the steel tailgates of same.

I was determined on the cold-blooded killing of policemen and suggested a follow-up operation of throwing a grenade into the back of a police land rover.

I anticipated the police would leave their tailgates open after the first attack.

These brutal and barbaric attacks cost seven policemen their lives.

This is what comes of mixing with dangerous people -DEATH.

The Bomb at Killeen

 In the 1980's I rose high in the ranks of the Northern IRA after sound academic achievements and a schooling in German industrial organisation.

During my briefings with Michael Mc Manus in the early 1980's I counselled concentrating our efforts on the police.

In my tactical guidelines,the killing of policemen and the bombing of their installations was my priority.

One of these intelligence-based targets was the crossing point on the North-South border at Killeen.

I specified to Mick my tactic of a huge bomb in a hay trailer to exploit the element of subterfuge and completely wiping out our RUC targets.

A huge bomb exploded at Killeen as per my instructions and three policemen and a young policewoman were killed.

The trap was a brutal and barbaric killing by people who it has been shown abandon those who they lured into involvement with the IRA.

Those people were bought by money and overpowered by political blarney which claimed many lives after the end of the conflict.

Many adherents of the IRA were sent to prison and places of confinement by Sinn Fein headmen styling themselves politicians in the years following the final ceasefire.

Many of their followers were described as schizoaffective by virtue of listening to silly nonsense such as the Adams lectures and taking seriously Martin Mc Guinness's baloney in the Green Book.