The Five Demands

Un ex membro del Real IRA ha rivelato a NewsLetter di aver abbandonato il gruppo paramilitare repubblicano di appartenenza e di aver fornito ai servizi di intelligence britannica (MI6), informazioni realtive a complotti per eliminari esponenti politici, ma non solo.
Tra i nomi resi noti trovano posto:

• Willie Frazer che si trova a capo del FAIR (Families Acting For Innocent Relatives) e stando alle dichiarazioni dell’informatore sarebbe un personaggio scomodo per sue presunte  dichiarazioni di odio nei confronti dei cattolici
• Ian Paisley Jr, figlio dell’ex primo ministro nordirlandese, che è stato definito come principale bersaglio
• Declan Ganley, imprenditore di spicco e fondatore di Libertas. L’uomo risulta essere stato contattato direttamente dall’informatore perchè ha ritenuto tardivo l’intervento del MI6.
• Un ufficiale di reclutamento del PSNI.

L’uomo, di cui per ovvi motivi non sono state rese note le generalità, ha affermato di aver ricoperto il ruolo di ufficiale di intelligence, e di aver preso le distanze dal Real IRA alcune settimane fa, perchè disilluso dai legami del gruppo paramilitare repubblicano con il movimento islamico. Ha reputato quindi che diventare informatore fosse l’unico modo per riscattarsi dal suo passato.
Fonti attendibili avrebbero confermato che l’uomo è appartenuto veramente al Real IRA, ma che i rapporti con l’intelligence britannica si siano ora interrotti. Egli infatti, stando a questa versione dei fatti, avrebbe rifiutato un compenso in denaro richiedendo invece una nuova identità, richiesta che gli sarebbe stata negata.
Un’altra versione invece, parla di un distacco dell’intelligence britannica dall’uomo perchè ha reputato non sufficientemente esaustive le informazioni da lui ricevute, soprattutto in relazione al suo ruolo ricoperto all’interno del Real IRA.
Se tutta la storia verrà confermata, l’informatore sarà il primo membro del Real IRA ad abbandonare il gruppo e a ‘parlare’, così come avevano fatto all’epoca Sean O’Callaghan e Martin McGartland, ex membri del Provisional IRA.

Ex-RIRA man reveals plot to kill victims’ chief (NewsLetter)
A REAL IRA member has left the terror group and alerted victims’ campaigner Willie Frazer about a plot to kill him. The man, who is now in hiding, claims to have left the dissident republican group in recent weeks and has passed information to Britain’s foreign intelligence service MI6, including on an alleged attempt to murder Ian Paisley Jnr. If his story is confirmed, he would be the first Real IRA member to leave and speak out — as IRA informants such as Sean O’Callaghan and Martin McGartland did. The republican, from the border counties, says he was one of the Real IRA’s intelligence officers, but grew disillusioned with the organisation over what he claimed were its deepening links with Islamic terrorists. He said that he wanted to absolve himself of his past involvement with the group by warning those it was targeting. Reliable sources say that the security services have verified that the man was a member of the Real IRA but that the relationship between British intelligence and the man, whose name cannot be published for his own safety, has now broken down. On the run, he has been moving around various safe locations and is now living in fear of his life. Mr Frazer, director of Families Acting For Innocent Relatives (FAIR), said that he was astonished by what had happened and had been “very cautious” when first contacted by the man. “We did a lot of checking to verify that he was who he said he was,” he said. The middle-aged dissident says that he turned down offers of money from his MI6 handler and asked that instead they give him a new identity, something he claims they reneged on. Other sources say that MI6 parted company with the man because they claimed that the level of information he was providing was not from a sufficiently high level within the Real IRA. Asked why he had come to Mr Frazer, who is widely disliked within republicanism because of his work for victims of IRA terrorism, he said: “I did my own checks and knew I could trust him.” He claims that the Real IRA wanted to murder Mr Frazer and had asked him to do research on him. “Last year there was a conversation in a pub where someone said about him ‘That ****’s going round stitching people up and he hates Catholics’,” he said. “There are people in South Armagh – including Provos – who don’t care what happens, they just want to take him down.” He also says that he told his handler of an attempt to kill Ian Paisley Jnr: “Mr Paisley’s son (Ian Jnr) was the main one.There was also a recruitment officer for the PSNI.” Mr Paisley told the News Letter that he was “aware of the allegation” but declined to comment further. Declan Ganley, the prominent Irish businessman and Libertas founder, was also on the target list, the dissident republican claims. “I called him and he thanked me for it because I thought they (MI6) were taking too long to contact him,” he said. Mr Frazer said that his group was “demanding that the information provided be acted upon”. He said: “He has seen the error of his ways and the information which he has brought forward has the potential to do a lot of damage to the dissident republican cause.” In tomorrow’s News Letter, the former Real IRA member tells why he got involved with the Real IRA and reveals some of the terror group’s methods.