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Date Posted: Thu, Dec 13 2007, 21:46:36 PST
Author: From IPSC Board
Subject: Misinformation, drugs & dirty tricks

Misinformation and Criminalisation of Republicans
Posted on December 12, 2007 at 06:33:50 AM by Sean Mac

The story below is a perfect example of the use of the mainstream media and British lead groups and Former Republicans in attempting to criminalise the struggle against continued British Occupation and to vilify any voices of opposition to the new British establishment.

Fact the IRLA are not a Republican group but rather a group brought about by the sinister hand of the British intelligent Services to be used as a tool to undermine and isolate Republicans from the cummunities. This group has been exposed as a Drug Dealing Criminal gang who most likely have been given the okay by the PSNI and their handlers to continue to sell drugs in return for breaking a few windows and issuing death threats to people. This was a similar tactic used in the 70' and 80's when the Brits created groups to intimidate and kill innocent Catholics it is a rehashing of a tried and trusted means.

Dissident republican group has LVF links

(Irish News)

A shadowy group claiming to be made up of disillusioned republicans has members of a leading loyalist family with LVF connections in its ranks.

The Irish Republican Liberation Army (IRLA) has been issuing death threats to members of Sinn F�in, including Briege Meehan, widow of the late Martin Meehan.

The Irish News has learned that the gang masquerading as the IRLA is in fact made up of members of a loyalist family from Co Antrim with LVF connections and two Catholic drug dealers from north Belfast.

The revelation comes as the shooting of a 28-year-old man on the Ballyhill Road in Co Antrim on Sunday evening is also being linked to the LVF.

Stuart Hill was shot in the head and back in the gun attack that happened at around 8.40pm on Sunday.

Hill had been involved in a fall out with the loyalist paramilitary group in 2006 and had moved into the Westland estate in north Belfast under the protection of former UDA boss Alan McClean.

Sources say that Hill survived the gun attack only because he was wearing a bullet-proof vest at the time.

He told police that he had been walking along the Ballyhill Road when a car pulled up alongside him and one of the passengers opened fire

Pictures of two masked men claiming to be members of the IRLA were circulated to the press last week, accompanied by a statement saying anyone giving information to the police would be treated as informers.

Recent cooperation between the police and mainstream republicans is believed to have disrupted a drug-dealing network, which stretches beyond the nationalist Ardoyne and into neighbouring loyalist areas.

Death threats claiming to come from the IRLA have been sent to a number of north Belfast members of Sinn F�in, including north Belfast assembly member Gerry Kelly.

In March dissident republicans Joe Jones and Ed Burns were murdered after breaking away from the Continuity IRA and forming a new group calling itself the IRLA.

Using the cover name the group carried out a number of gun attacks on the homes of alleged criminals.

The 32 County Sovereignty Movement, a group with links to the Real IRA, has issued a statement distancing itself from the recent threats adding that the IRLA was a "criminal gang".

"Whatever their agenda, is it's not a republican one," the statement read.

"Republicans have nothing to gain from attacking or threatening Sinn F�in members."

Sources within the Continuity IRA have also denied that any members of the dissident republican group past or present are involved in the IRLA

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