Shooting There are no reports of these soldiers being shooting and the suggestion being made by neighbours is that the army mounted a stake out'.
The only target for suen an operaton in luc area Bernadette and This only apS::: 5: 0-s enge 22 Jaruzer 1981 it seems likely that the arrival of the British army on the Illay have prevented the UDA finishing off Bernadette and Michael. but the questions remain:
Could they have arrived sooner than they did, and they had a Teason to stake our Lue house, why did they not The maelle and Michael? In other words, was Ine army aware Ilal an attempt on the life of Bernadette was made, and did they allow that attempt to be made?
Frank Maguire MP was one of those to express cynicism about the army's role. at all they weren't lucky,' he have refused Bernadette the means to defend nene Michael Farrell, leading Peoples Democracy, who was interviewed Irish radio weekend, disclosed that bernadette, Teamine her life, had applied for a gun licence but had been turned down.
also uncontested is the tolerance that British governments nave shown towares lie UDA. Numerous demands for the banning of the UDA have been made in recent years, but both Labour and Tory politicians have rejected such calls.
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