LVF/MI5?
By Mick Naughton.
In the telephone claim to a Belfast newsroom last Sunday morning
a loyalist saying he was speaking on behalf of the conveniently
formed Loyalist Volunteer Force said a bomb placed off
Clanbrassil Street in Dundalk was theirs.
The caller also said another explosive device had been left in a
carpark at Dublin airport. After a search of that location the
alert was declared a hoax at 2.45pm.
One kilogramme of comerical mining explosives inside a thermos
flask with an alarm clock attached inside a plastic bag from a
boutique with outlets in Craigavon and Portadown was found in the
alleyway of Dundalk's main shopping street. Local people reported
hearing a small bang - this is understood to have been the
detonator going off.
The loyalist caller warned that further attacks would continue
``as long as Dublin interferes in Ulster affairs.'' The loyalist
added that further ``no-warning bomb attacks'' would take place.
The fact that the bag containing the device emanated from the
Portadown area lends support to the suspicion that agents acting
on behalf of British Intelligence are following a well worn path.
The UVF bombers who carried out the 17 May 1974 Dublin and
Monaghan bombings had active assistance from British military
agents. Although no one has ever been convicted of those attacks,
the highest death toll in any one day of 27 years of the present
conflict, the names of those involved are freely available after
a British television documentary named them.
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