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The weapons man: ‘I gave the IRA powerful anti-tank shells the US Army used in Iraq war’
Belfast Telegraph ^ | 28 April 2014 | Suzanne Breen

Posted on 04/27/2014 11:30:33 PM PDT by Olog-hai

The IRA has a secret arsenal of deadly munitions capable of bringing down military helicopters and penetrating PSNI Land Rovers, killing all personnel traveling inside.

Millionaire Florida stockbroker turned IRA gunrunner, Mike Logan, says he sent the powerful incendiary shells to the Provisionals who tested them and were “delighted with the results”. […]

As well as arming the Provisionals with hundreds of handguns as previously reported, he has now disclosed that he also sent munitions as powerful as those the US Army deployed against Saddam Hussein in the Iraq war.

He claims that years after the IRA ceasefire, the Provos were still keen to buy heavy weapons capable of killing dozens of police officers and British soldiers. …

(Excerpt) Read more at belfasttelegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antitank; gunrunner; ira; mikelogan; northernireland; thetroubles; weaponssmuggler
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To: GregB

No, it was their own people that did that. The landowners were still Irish.

Besides, so long as they are both part of the European Union, one will never be “out of” the other. The whole principle of “ever closer union” after all.


21 posted on 04/28/2014 9:08:49 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: SargeK

Agreed. They’re selling papers.


22 posted on 04/28/2014 12:34:40 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: BudgieRamone

interesting Thanks


23 posted on 04/29/2014 12:22:20 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: GregB

No, they didn’t. Britain in fact gave the Irish food at cost to the UK, and both Protestants and Catholics died in the famine, at least 100000 Protestants died, the UKs own people in Ireland, in the north. Possibly as high as 300000.

The UK also repealed the corn laws to help the Irish. The British made mistakes but the idea they killed only Catholics and did so deliberately is a nonsense.

I want you the hell out of the US, give your land back to the Indians, and apologise for all the brutality against them, I mean if the Brits get out of Ireland, it’s only fair......mmmkay?. If the Brits are terrorists so are you.


24 posted on 04/29/2014 1:25:13 PM PDT by the scotsman (i)
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