Breaking news winter 2007

Johnston Brown was hailed by Martin Dillon as "the superb investigator who was central to bringing 'Mad Dog' Adair to justice." According to Dillon," ...the day [Brown] publishes the story of life in the RUC, from the troubled 1970s to the 1990s, a veil will be lifted from the undercover war ..." "Into the Dark" is that story. Johnston Brown served in the RUC for nearly 30 years. Recruited into the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) only two years into his service, he quickly established himself as a detective of outstanding ability. He was to lead the investigation into the murder of solicitor Pat Finucane, and it was he who was responsible for finally bringing Johnny Adair to book. Brown was, however, quickly to discover that he was up against another even more deadly enemy than the criminals he was pursuing: those sinister elements of RUC Special Branch who for reasons of their own were determined to thwart his success. Brown found to his cost that they would stop at nothing to do so. "Into the Dark" offers a gripping insight into life in the RUC: the day-to-day reality of policing the streets of West Belfast during the dark days of the PIRA hunger strike, and what it was like to be a detective stationed in the "killing fields" of North Belfast during the 80s. The narrative lays bare some of the key terrorist personalities, as well as those operating within the Special Branch to pervert the course of justice as a means of asserting internal control.

Children are targets of Nigerian witch hunt

Evangelical pastors are helping to create a terrible new campaign of violence against young Nigerians. Children and babies branded as evil are being abused, abandoned and even murdered while the preachers make money out of the fear of their parents and their communities

Pastor begs congregation for forgiveness, damnation

COLORADO SPRINGS - A leading evangelical minister has resigned today over allegations that he is a covert agent of the devil.

Reverend Y. Goodman Brown headed the New Original First Church of Christ, a sprawling megachurch with a congregation of more than 25,000 worshipers. Charming, charismatic, and possessing a keen talent for speaking in tongues, Brown took over the church after the previous pastor, Arnold Friend, died in a mysterious impaling accident. Now, after confirming allegations that he serves the Lord of Darkness, he has left his position in disgrace.

(A Garda with a sense of morality, is being fitted up because he leaked vital information on the Dean Lyons case!

If he had not done so, the Lyons Case would have been put on the "long finger", as have other cases like the Dublin paedophile network and Malcom McArthur case!)

The "long finger" tactic is well used in Ireland by both the Garda and the Irish Fianna Fail government when they need to cover up cases, which would eventually expose the crimes of the e'lites in Ireland!

A garda sergeant charged with unlawfully disclosing the contents of a report into the wrongful charging of Dean Lyons has been sent forward for trial to the Circuit Criminal Court.

Detective Sergeant Robert McNulty, of Rathfarnham in Dublin, was charged last month in connection with the leaking of a report compiled after the an inquiry into why the homeless drug addict was wrongfully charged with a double murder in Grangegorman which he did not commit.

The charges relate to a story which appeared in the Evening Herald in August 2006, a month before the report was due to be published.

The book of evidence has been served in the case and the detective has been remanded on continuing bail.

SHEILA Lyons felt sick when she was told last August that doubts expressed by certain gardai over her son Dean's confession to the murder of two women in Grangegorman in 1997 had not been acted upon. Her response was unequivocal: some gardai investigating her son's alleged involvement in the brutal murders had brushed the truth under the carpet.

Brian Rossiter, a 14 year old Clonmel boy, was found in a coma after a night in Garda custody. He died three days later, never having recovered consciousness. At present an inquiry is underway into the circumstances of his detention and death.

Meanwhile there is evidence of Garda harassment of the father of Brian Rossiter, Pat Rossiter, and of a central witness in the case, Tony Buck, who claims to have witnessed a named Garda strike a heavy blow to the temple of Brian Rossiter as he was being brought to a cell in the Garda station some 12 hours before he was discovered in a coma.

Tony Buck's house has been raided on several occasions and, according to him and his wife, their home was ransacked by Gardaí. On one occasion the Gardaí claimed they were searching for a firearm. One of Tony Buck's sons is serving a term of imprisonment for the murder of a Clonmel man several years ago.

Pat Rossiter, has recently instituted a legal action against Gardaí in Clonmel for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution, following his acquittal on public order charges in early May.

The judge in that case, Judge Terence Finn, was critical of the Gardaí involved in Pat Rossiter's arrest. He advised the Gardaí to "go back to the books". He said he had a long memory and if further deficiencies in Garda cases arose at Clonmel District Court he would remember this case.

Pat Rossiter had been charged with being drunk and a danger to himself and others, and with using threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour in a public place following an incident in May 2005.

One of the Gardaí involved in prosecuting Pat Rossiter was the garda in charge of the station in Clonmel on the night Brian Rossiter was brought to the station and later lapsed into a coma. He claimed in evidence he did not know who Pat Rossiter was, nor did he connect him to Brian Rossiter.

In the course of the case the judge expressed scepticism about notes gardaí allegedly made at the time concerning the incident involving Pat Rossiter. He also commented on the "marked similarity" in the evidence given by two gardaí in the case.

The minutes of the NIA debate on the Sarah Bland satanic abuse case involving her father and members of the judiciary in the Republic of Ireland!

To people living in the North Inner City, the Sadly, this will not come as a surprise to anyone who has witnessed the operations of the Gardai when dealing with the citizens of the city. There has always been something of a siege mentality amongst the enforcers of law and order in our streets. They appear to have little problems with the force part, whereas their efforts at winning respect within the community have been negligible. Indeed one of the Gardai that quite visibly lost the run of himself on the ‘Reclaim The Streets’ in May 2002, turned out to be a community guard. Obviously on that sunny evening, when he covered up his numbers and flayed his baton wildly into people, thugery came easier to him than did his community work.

The issue is that the Gardai appear to have precious little respect for the people that they’re supposed to be there to serve. Their purpose has always been to protect the property of the bosses, and they appear to be able to get away with murder after that. As long as normality is maintained, then they have carte-blanche to deal with the public.

Every year there are over 1200 complaints to the Garda Siochana Complaints Board. Many of these don’t appear to go anywhere. Less than ten per cent appear to reach some sort of conclusion and they get reported in vague bureaucratic language like they were ‘informally resolved at local level’. Many complaints appear to get withdrawn or appear to be deemed ‘inadmissible’. In 2004 the Director of Public Prosecutions only managed to start proceedings against a mere 3 Gardai, in respect of just 2 complaints.

The feeling is that this is an exercise in futility, complaining about the cops to a board that is made up of ex-cops who know where they stand on the issue long before they’ve heard the any statements.

The campaigners for Terence Wheelock are brave. They have shone a light into a dark corner of how the state conducts its business and we should all be grateful for that. The call for an independent inquiry must be heeded and it is about time the boys in blue were held accountable for their actions. That is never going to happen in the present set up. When the law enforcers are above the law, justice has to be fought for.

Meeting: Death By Cops - Justice For Terence Wheelock Campaign
2.45 pm - 3.45 pm, March 3rd, Anarchist Book fair, Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Square

Laurence Wheelock talks about his family’s fight for justice for his brother Terence, a twenty year old man from Dublin’s north inner city who went into a coma after sustaining injuries in garda custody in June 2005 and subsequently died in September of that year.

This article is from the North-City Anarchist, March 2007 recent revelations at the Dublin City coroner’s court at the inquest into the death of young Terence Wheelock will not come as a surprise. Terence went into a coma from which he never recovered, after sustaining injuries in Store Street Garda station. One witness to his arrest said the Gardai ‘whacked Terence’s head off the side of the van and twisted his broken arm behind his back’.

An Injury To One Is An Injury To All

Terence Wheelock’s death is by no means extraordinary, in that his death was one twenty two deaths reported in Garda Custody since 1997. Of these figures, a majority of those who died are under the age of thirty, and, in the case of Brian Rossiter, the victim was just fourteen years old.

June 9th last saw 500 people march on Store Street Garda station to demand justice for Terence Wheelock on the second anniversary of his death. Terence, a twenty-year-old man from Dublin’s north inner- city, fell into a coma after sustaining injuries in Store Street Station in June 2005 and subsequently died in September of that year.

Gardai claim Terence took his own life, but evidence gathered independently by the Wheelock family points toward something much more sinister than that. What they have proven is that Terence was forced to endure gross brutality at the hands of the people who are supposed to “protect and to serve” us.

The reality of the situation- that Terence’s only offence was to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and the fact that the Gardai responsible have so far evaded any form of punishment for their crime further proves that their purpose has always been to protect private property rather than the civil rights of those they are paid to serve. Getting away with murder has become one of the things they have become very good at.

Terence’s death, while astonishing in the sheer brutality of the facts, is by no means extraordinary, in that his death was one twenty two deaths reported in Garda Custody since 1997. Of these figures, a majority of those who died are under the age of thirty, and, in the case of Brian Rossiter, the victim was just fourteen years old.

Also disquieting is the fact that several of the deaths took place in Store Street Garda station. This cannot be a coincidence. Death by hanging counted for a large number of the deaths, though in several cases, including in that of Terence, suicide has proved to be almost impossible.

Brian Rossiter was found unconscious in a cell in Clonmel Garda Station following his arrest in Clonmel town on 10 September 2002. He entered the station in good health, left in a coma and died a few days later.

Gardai told Brian’s father, that he had overdosed on alcohol and ecstasy tablets. Later toxicology reports showed no traces of either substance. The statutory inquiry has always been strongly criticised by the Rossiter family for trying to narrow its scope, thus avoiding vital questions.

Avoiding vital questions is what the Garda do best. In the Rossiter case, Garda blatantly lied to the family of the victim. If, as the Gardai state, Brian was heavily intoxicated, why was there not a medic present to provide him with a necessary check? The boy was just fourteen years of age. Why, in the case of Terence Wheelock, have the Gardai continually tried to dismiss feasible evidence? Why were the custody records of the station inexplicably changed following his death?

How is it that John Maloney, found comatose and heavily bleeding behind a church in Rathfarnham, received these injuries “minutes” after leaving Garda custody?

These questions merely highlight the corrupt and brutal nature of policing in this state. Whether through death and injury of those in Garda custody, or those killed in the prison system, or those other victims like John Carthy this state violence has been well documented.

It is of huge importance that people support the campaigns of the Wheelocks, Moloneys and other families seeking justice. Organised opposition can hopefully save more lives and create an atmosphere where people can begin working on community alternatives to the state’s hard line force. An injustice to one is and injustice to all!

Justice For Terence Wheelock Protest at Store Street Garda Station - Indymedia Ireland

"My advice to the family of Terrence Weelock is - leave the Shinners at home next time!"

Tips for tourists 1- Sarcasm with a big bit of satanism thrown in! You have to scroll down before you get to the meat!

Not exactly a common Ulster name but Michael hails from "Norn" Ireland - as I Do1

Webmasters comment: I published information relevant to the murder of Rev Robert Bradford in my book "Disappeared off the face of the earth" in Dec 2002.

I was informed in a telephone conversation with former Rev Roy Magee that he was informed that Rev Robert Bradford was murdered because he (Robert Bradford) was murdered because he found out about the "activities of the rich and powerful" in Ireland! The "activities of the rich and powerful" related to SATANIC CULT activity in Ireland!

MP could have been saved

MP 'sacrificed to protect agents within ranks of the provisionals'

In the third part of our explosive series The Special Branch Files, journalist Greg Harkin reveals how a botched undercover operation led to the murder of the Rev Robert Bradford Shortly before 11.30am on Saturday, November 14, 1981, three armed IRA members carrying ladders and dressed in painters' boilersuits arrived at the community centre at Benmore Drive in Finaghy. At first their arrival did not arouse suspicion; there was ongoing work at the centre. One of the gang members, carrying a sub-machine-gun, took up position at the front door. One of his accomplices shouted "freeze" before opening fire on the caretaker, 29-year-old Kenneth Campbell, who was returning to the centre after a break at his nearby home. While one of the IRA men pinned an RUC bodyguard to the ground at gunpoint, another gunman quickly turned to the Reverend Robert Bradford, Ulster Unionist MP for South Belfast. He opened fire, shooting him in the eye, chest, neck and ear.

The 40-year-old father-of-one died instantly. As the IRA's active service unit (ASU) fled, the RUC officer fired three shots after their getaway car. It was another horrific day in a blood-spattered year in which 117 people lost their lives in the Troubles - 1981, the year of the hunger strikes. Today, however, 26 years later, Sunday Life can reveal that neither Rev Bradford nor Mr Campbell should have died in the IRA attack - RUC Special Branch and Army Intelligence had prior knowledge of the incident an incredible THREE DAYS beforehand.

(I wonder about the policeman! Why didnt the IRA shoot the RUC officer? Surely he would have been a prime target for the IRA! If British Intelligence were involved, could they have colluded with the IRA in this murder? The possible motive could have been that there was something of immense importance, which both British and IRA were afraid that Rev Bradford might have exposed! This could have been the fact that upper-class Satanic cult were active in both Unionist/Anglo-Irish in Ulster and upper-class Republican society in the Republic of Ireland!)

Three years ago, a former officer with the shadowy Army intelligence-gathering outfit the Force Research Unit (FRU) contacted me with information on several murders which took place during the Troubles. He knew of - but did not know - 'Martin Ingram', another former FRU officer. He hinted at a cover-up in the murder of the Ulster Unionist MP in 1981.

I have since been able to verify these claims with two other sources not known to each other.

"The Rev Bradford was a sitting duck. The IRA had checked out the (community) centre before as a possible venue for a hit," said the source.

"He had certainly been warned that he had to be extra careful when he was there, but the information before the shooting was 100pc certain that an attack would take place that Saturday, November 14.

"This was not a general warning. We had someone in the IRA giving us information on the planned attack.

"I know for a fact that Special Branch also had someone inside giving them the same information."

The ex-officer claims he had spent that weekend expecting to hear about the arrests or shootings of IRA members.

"I couldn't believe it when the MP was taken out along with another civilian," he recalled.

"I made a point of finding out what went wrong. Our lot had put a great deal into this intelligence operation and I know Special Branch did, too.

"All the information was passed up (the chain of command), but nothing happened. I know that teams were prepared by the RUC to intercept the IRA team, but they were still on their way (to Finaghy) when the murders took place. They were too late. It was mind-boggling. "But they shouldn't have been too late. They (the RUC) knew for three f*****g days what was going to happen, but there was no operation put in place around the IRA team as they set off from Andersonstown, there was no operation put in place around Mr Bradford or his home on the Malone Road, and the operation for the community centre was still leaving the station when the murders took place.

"It defies belief that this could have happened, but it did. Army Intelligence would have had people on the ground the night before, for God's sake."

Branch sources say officers at the time were also furious that the Rev Bradford had not been saved, but put the incident down to poor planning and incompetence rather than any more sinister reason.

The former soldier however said he believed that now was the time for information on the murder to be investigated - believing there could have been other reasons.

He admitted that he had "no evidence whatsoever" to substantiate this claim, but insisted: "I find it hard to believe any other reason.

"This is not just about Mr Bradford, either. There was also Mr Campbell who died and at least three Catholics were killed by loyalists in retaliation in the days after the killing."

Just hours after the Bradford murder, Stephen Murphy (19) was shot by a UVF gunman as he answered his door in the Oldpark area of north Belfast. He died from his injuries 10 days later.

Thomas McNulty (18) was murdered by the UVF as he walked home in the Short Strand area of east Belfast the day after the Bradford murder.

Two days later, Billy Wright, then UVF leader in Mid-Ulster, shot dead 20-year-old Catholic Peader Fegan in Lurgan.

When the MP and Mr Campbell were shot, children at a kids' disco witnessed the horrific murders.

A 15-year-old DJ described how he threw a chair at one of the killers while shouting at other children to dive for cover.

"The gunmen pushed the children out of the way as they made their way out of the building," he added.

An 11-year-old told reporters afterwards: "They shot the Rev Bradford about six times. We were quite close by. The shots were very loud."

TDs in Dail Eireann stood for a minute's silence, but in Northern Ireland there were fears of an all-out civil war.

The SDLP leader, John Hume, said the murder was a deliberate attempt by the IRA to provoke the community into civil conflict.

Unionists reacted with anger. UUP leader James Molyneaux threatened a 'Third Force' if the Secretary of State, Jim Prior, did not announce a 'crackdown' on the paramilitaries.

At the Rev Bradford's funeral, Mr Prior was jostled by dozens of mourners. He recalled afterwards: "I had to make a run for the church door with my detectives shielding me. I just about managed to get through in one piece. "

He was later heckled inside the church and as he left afterwards he was jostled again by crowds shouting: "Kill him! Kill him!"

Earlier, mourners cheered and applauded when the minister conducting the funeral service called for the reintroduction of capital punishment.

The Provisionals' statement read: "Belfast Brigade IRA claims responsibility for the execution of Robert Bradford MP, one of the key people responsible for winding up the loyalist paramilitary sectarian machine in the North.

"Let Mr Tyrie (UDA leader) and the UDA know well the cost of killing innocent nationalist people."

The Rev Bradford had become a Methodist minister when he was 22, turning his back on a career as a professional footballer with Sheffield Wednesday.

He joined the UUP when he served as a minister in the loyalist enclave of Suffolk in west Belfast and was elected MP for south Belfast in 1974.

He became an outspoken critic of the IRA and had demanded the reintroduction of hanging for terrorist killers.

The Rev Bradford's widow, Norah, was 33 at the time of the killing. They had one daughter, Claire.

Speaking after the murder, she told reporters: "They have tried several times at the advice centre. They came at least two times before and they were caught out watching the advice centre, but he would not give it up just for them.

"He never feared he would be attacked. He felt it was a possibility. He did not fear it."

It is clear from other interviews at the time that the Rev Bradford knew he was a target for the Provisionals.

He also knew the centre in Finaghy where he attended clinics at least once a month was a place where an attack could take place.

What makes the claims from a former Army officer more serious is the fact that the security forces knew an attempted murder was going to take place on the morning of November 14, 1981 and appeared to do very little to prevent it.

They know who was in the gang, who was providing support and various other details.

What is clear is that the gang would not stop at these murders. The gun used to kill the Rev Bradford was also used to shoot Judge William Doyle and Mary Travers several years later.

"Northern Ireland has to move on, but I don't think that is possible until we have dealt with the past," said the ex-FRU officer.

"I believe there has to be a lawyer-free truth and reconciliation tribunal where everyone makes statements about the past.

"Police officers, for example, are allowed under the law to waive the restrictions of the Official Secrets Act when they talk to the Police Ombudsman. "A tribunal could offer an amnesty to all participants - security forces and paramilitaries - and a way forward that doesn't involved expensive investigation and legal fees."

Mrs Bradford said of her husband's killers at the time: "The Lord will deal with them in his own good time. It is not for me to speak of that."

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New evidence on the 911 catastrophe - apparently this new documentary will be shown in picture halls across the UK in the run up to Christmas!

James Whale radio program on MW - well worth listening in from 10pm several nights a week!

George Galloway on TalkSport usually from 10pm on weekends! George doesnt take prisoners and is a ver hot headed Scotsman! Controversial but his hearts in the right place! He doesnt like Bush and his illegal/criminal invasion of Iraq. He is pro-Arab and he claims the Zionist Jews have no right to have a homeland state of their own in Israel!

Webmasters comment: I am neither against the Arabs nor am I anti-semitic! I am anti-fascist!

Alan Corbett - spokesman for CARI - Ireland - claims satanic devil worshioppers very active throughout Ireland, abusing children in horrific sacrificial ceremonies!

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Pentagon Cover Up

15,000 or More US Deaths in Iraq War?

The Pentagon has been concealing the true number of American casualties in the Iraq War. The real number exceeds 15,000 and CBS News can prove it.
CBS's Investigative Unit wanted to do a report on the number of suicides in the military and "submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of Defense". After 4 months they received a document which showed--that between 1995 and 2007-- there were 2,200 suicides among "active duty" soldiers.
Baloney.
The Pentagon was covering up the real magnitude of the "suicide epidemic". Following an exhaustive investigation of veterans' suicide data collected from 45 states; CBS discovered that in 2005 alone "there were at least 6,256 among those who served in the armed forces. That's 120 each and every week in just one year."

That is not a typo. Active and retired military personnel, mostly young veterans between the ages of 20 to 24, are returning from combat and killing themselves in record numbers. We can assume that "multiple-tours of duty" in a war-zone have precipitated a mental health crisis of which the public is entirely unaware and which the Pentagon is in total denial.

If we add the 6,256 suicide victims from 2005 to the "official" 3,865 reported combat casualties; we get a sum of 10,121. Even a low-ball estimate of similar 2004 and 2006 suicide figures, would mean that the total number of US casualties from the Iraq war now exceed 15,000.

That's right; 15,000 dead US servicemen and women in a war that--as yet--has no legal or moral justification.

CBS interviewed Dr. Ira Katz, the head of mental health at the Department of Veteran Affairs. Katz attempted to minimize the surge in veteran suicides saying, "There is no epidemic of suicide in the VA, but suicide is a major problem."

Maybe Katz is right. Maybe there is no epidemic. Maybe it's perfectly normal for young men and women to return from combat, sink into inconsolable depression, and kill themselves at greater rates than they were dying on the battlefield. Maybe it's normal for the Pentagon to abandon them as soon as soon they return from their mission so they can blow their brains out or hang themselves with a garden hose in their basement. Maybe it's normal for politicians to keep funding wholesale slaughter while they brush aside the casualties they have produced by their callousness and lack of courage. Maybe it is normal for the president to persist with the same, bland lies that perpetuate the occupation and continue to kill scores of young soldiers who put themselves in harm's-way for their country.

It's not normal; it's is a pandemic---an outbreak of despair which is the natural corollary of living in constant fear; of seeing one's friends being dismembered by roadside bombs or children being blasted to bits at military checkpoints or finding battered bodies dumped on the side of a riverbed like a bag of garbage.

The rash of suicides is the logical upshot of the U.S. war on Iraq. Returning soldiers are traumatized by their experience and now they are killing themselves in droves. Maybe we should have thought about that before we invaded.

Check it out the video at: CBS News "Suicide Epidemic among Veterans"

Mike Whitney lives in Washington state. He can be reached at: fergiewhitney@msn.com

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Children are targets of Nigerian witch hunt

An Injury To One Is An Injury To All

MP could have been saved

MP 'sacrificed to protect agents within ranks of the provisionals'

Pentagon Cover Up

15,000 or More US Deaths in Iraq War?

Factotum (UK)

The issue of migrant children missing in Ireland must be tackled urgently

Gardai seek help tracing girl (14)

From ireland.com 00:25 Saturday, 3rd November, 2007

WHALE

27-10-07

"Girl goes missing just before Halloween - The prevalent satanic festival of the year!

Garda appeal for missing teenager

From ireland.com

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Saturday, 27th October, 2007

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