Post by caspday on Nov 5, 2012 1:36:25 GMT -5
The backdrop to yesterday’s motorway ambush and the killing of David Black Official Cleveland Browns Jerseys is found in a bitter and protracted jail row.Dissident republicans struck under the radar but, for all its shock and horror, the targeting can’t be described as unexpected.Public warnings can be traced back to the early part of last year and a threat directed at prison staff from Oglaigh na hEireann (ONH) saying it had details of officers including those at governor level.This is not to say ONH carried out the shooting, but the briefing in March 2011 indicated a mood and an intention that could be copied across the dissident organisations.
It set off alarm bells.The threat was linked to conditions at Maghaberry Usama Young JerseyJail and to the specific issue of ‘strip’ searching. Since then, the row has deepened and the standoff developed into a socalled ‘dirty protest’.Inside Roe House all the factions are involved — ONH, Continuity IRA and those who are part of a new dissident IRA coalition.And yesterday one of those factions, as yet undeclared, took another page from the old IRA war book and killed a prison officer in a period of jail protest.Loyalists are not talking about a kneejerk response, but one senior figure speaking anonymously challenged MI5 to do more.
The peace process has to be managed, and people are managing it, he Kaluka Maiava Jerseysaid. This shooting makes things more difficult.I’m saying they (MI5) need to sit up and show results.The Security Service can point to numerous successes, but there is no such thing as a perfect intelligence picture.It’s obviously about trying to get a reaction, another loyalist leader Jackie McDonald said.These boys (dissidents) are being strangled and choked, and any retaliation would give them the oxygen they need.
BY targeting a prison officer in a murderous ambush the ‘new' IRA that BE1105ZYH emerged Cleveland Browns Shopthis summer is replicating the tactics of the old one.For a start, it is clear that the republican dissidents behind the murder of David Black did not just get lucky at this poor, unfortunate man's expense. Instead, they used tried and tested methods of intelligence gathering and covert surveillance on their human quarry.They would have built up a precise picture of his movements and timings in the daily commute along the motorway en route to Mr Black's job at Maghaberry Prison.
In doing so, they were simply copying the spying techniques of their predecessors www.officialclevelandbrownsjerseys.comin the Provisional IRA and INLA, who killed almost all of the 30 prison staff to die in the Troubles.The ruthless execution of the deed itself also followed old patterns learnt during the Troubles. The quick closequarter kill with no mercy. The use of a stolen car, in this case with Dublin numberplates. The destruction in fire of the vehicle used to get rid of (so they hope) any forensic traces.
The use of ancillary support to harbour the killers after Customized Jerseys NFLthe shooting, allowing them, too, to forensically clean themselves and destroy anything they were wearing that might lead police on a DNA trail back to the crime scene.Yet there are other methods and tactics the organisation will deploy that also follow a pattern from the days of the Troubles.The dissident republicans will seek to explain and excuse their decision to gun down a defenceless man through the prism of prison struggle.They will tell their supporters and fellow travellers that they have gone to such extreme lengths to amplify on the outside the battles taking place on the inside.