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Blame Michael Collins for the Clonoe ambush, not the SAS
The real person to blame for the deaths of four members of the Provisional IRA’s East Tyrone Brigade in the Clonoe ambush in 1992 was not the SAS, but the late Michael Collins, who was shot dead ...
Coroners ruling over Clonoe shooting enrages unionistsThe East Tyrone IRA took heavy losses at the hands of the SAS A coroner’s ruling the SAS was unjustified in shooting dead four IRA men in ...
Prosecutors should focus on the IRA members involved in a machine gun attack on a Co Tyrone RUC station shortly before an “unjustified” Army operation killed four of the gang, the DUP leader has said.
The coroner said the three men were members of the East Tyrone brigade of IRA and were on “active service” when they were shot. He said the background to the case was a “surge of activity ...