Observer: INLA ceasefire will remain despite battle with drug gang
Danielle Ni Dhighe
17 Oct 99
INLA ceasefire will remain despite battle with drug gang
by Henry McDonald
THE Irish National Liberation Army will maintain its ceasefire even if the
Irish government suspends prisoner releases in response to the terror group
avenging the death of one of its members in Dublin.
In an exclusive interview with The Observer, the INLA's leadership also
confirmed that it rejected overtures from republican dissidents such as the
Real IRA to restart the armed struggle. It described attempts to resume
violence in Northern Ireland as "completely futile."
The INLA said it intended to kill members of a west Dublin criminal gang
who murdered 22 year old Patrick Campbell in the city on October 6th.
Campbell, an INLA volunteer, was buried in his native west Belfast on
Thursday.
The republican terror group, which killed Margaret Thatcher's close aide
Airey Neave in 1979, said there would be "no bloodbath on the streets of
Dublin" to avenge Campbell's murder. An INLA leader said that the gang
responsible would be "surgically sought out and executed" over a period of
months.
Asked if the INLA was concerned that violence in Dublin would prompt the
Irish government to freeze the early release of their prisoners - a deal
worked out after the ceasefire last year - one of the terrorist leaders
said: "We will have to take that on the chin and even if they go ahead and
suspend the releases I can assure you this will not break the INLA
ceasefire. The cease-fire remains intact because it is only option open at
this time. There is no justification now for armed struggle in Ireland in
the present circumstances."
The INLA leadership denied that their dispute with the Dublin criminals was
over drugs and said any member of their organisation involved in the drugs
trade "would be dealt with in the severest of terms."
Shedding new light on the Campbell murder, the INLA leaders said the
criminals killed him during a botched operation against drug dealers in
Dublin. He said the INLA had initially surrounded the gang in a warehouse
on the Ballymount industrial estate. Just as they were about to abduct the
gang members, shoot them in the legs and leave them strategically placed
around different parts of Dublin, a van pulled up outside. The INLA terrorists
thought the van contained members of the gardai's Emergency Response
Unit who had shot dead one of their fellow members in Tallaght last year.
Fearing they were trapped in a police ambush the INLA unit fled
the scene. In fact inside the van were other members of the Dublin criminal
gang, who caught up with Patrick Campbell, brought him back to the
warehouse and beat him savagely. They then cut the tendons in Campbell's
legs and stabbed him several times.
The INLA leaders said they were caught in a dilemma not of their own
making. "We did not want to take the guns out again but we reserve the
right to defend our members. No organisation could tolerate what happened
to Patrick Campbell. If it takes six months we will find the people
responsible."
They also rejected reports that the criminals had no knowledge they were
dealing with the INLA when they tortured and killed Patrick Campbell.
On the wider political front, the INLA said the new coalition of Real and
Continuity IRA would achieve nothing by launching a fresh terror offensive.
"Where are they (the Real and Continuity IRA) going? What are they going to
achieve? Even if they put 40 bombs in Belfast and the Brits agreed eventually
to talk to them what would be the end product? Everyone knows it will still be
something on the lines of the Good Friday Agreement with an Assembly at
Stormont. The INLA told these people we were not interested at all in re-
launching the war, that there is no need for it at this time," one INLA
leader said.
The INLA repeated its offer of a "non-aggression pact" between them and
their loyalist enemies in the Ulster Defence Association and the Ulster
Volunteer Force. So far the loyalist terror groups have not responded to
the INLA's initiative.
"The idea of a non-aggression pact with the loyalists came out of what we
saw happening in places like north Belfast where community workers and
ex-prisoners on both sides were working to reduce sectarian tensions on the
ground. We wanted to broaden that out to the armed groups, to ensure there
was no sectarian violence in places like north Belfast, to make it more
formal."
The terror group accused the Irish government of "double-standards" in the
treatment of their prisoners compared to IRA inmates. They claimed INLA
prisoners were denied parole and released much later than IRA members. The
organisation also expressed concern over Dublin's handling of the Seamus
Ruddy issue - a murdered INLA member whose body was secretly buried in
Paris by the organisation. The INLA said they had located the exact spot
where Ruddy's body was buried last July but so far the Irish authorities
have been unable to exhume his remains.
"It is either incompetence on the Irish government's part or else they are
holding back in order not to embarrass the Provos because there has been no
more progress in finding their 'Disappeared'. "
The INLA has six prisoners in Portlaoise prison in the Republic and 18 in
the Maze including Christopher "Crip" McWilliams who shot dead LVF leader
Billy Wright outside H-block 6 in December 1997.
Heron
hmmmmm
so what exactly does the cease fire cover?
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Heron?
Bruscar
drug-dealing criminal louts
mealiff
BACK TO THE SUNDAY WORLD
from the front page of the Sunday World 17.10.99
these two are the two men who sparked off a bloody gangland fued which
ended in one man's gruesome death.
Belfast INLA thug Declan Duffy had been trying to muscle in on the drugs
empire of hood Brian O'Keefe when he led a torture team against the
Dublin gangsters.
But fellow INLA man Pat Campbell(22) died of his terrible injuries when
O'Keefe led a hatchet wielding team to rescue his pals.
Campbell was buried with full paramilitary honours this week and the
Inla leadership has ordered a contract on the life of drugs boss
O'Keefe.
Today we tell the full brutal story of this savage battle which was
fought over a drugs empire.
The Inla bloodbath with a top drug gang ten days ago in Dublin was the
most savage and grusome confrontation in Irish gangland history
Last Sunday morning this newspaper revealed the full shocking details of
a battle which led to the death of one man, the serious injury of at
least seven others and the likely prospect of further bloodshed
On one side was a loose collection of criminals led by Brian O'keeefe-a
29 year old drug dealer from Walkinstown in west Dublin. and the other
is Belfast born terrorist Declan Patrick Duffy , a bully boy thug in his
mid thirties who uses the INLA as a front for criminal racketeering.
His "comrade in arms" Pat Campbell who was also from Belfast died from
dreadful knife and hatchet wounds inflicted by O'Keefe's pals...
They had come to a factory in the bleak industrail estate to rescue SIX
of their friends who had earlier been abducted and brutally TORTURED by
Duffy and his INLA men.
But what was it all really about? MONEY,DRUGS AND GUNS
O'Keefe had them.Duffy and his mob wanted them
This is the last thing either group wanted to happen. It blew up in
their faces and has been exposed them to the Irish public.
A Police conference was told yesterday that the INLA has placed a
contract on the lives of Brian O'Keefe and members of his gang.
O'Keefe is one of the new breed of drug dealers who has emerged in
recent years
Up to four years ago he was mainly involved in trying to smuggle
cigarettes into Ireland from Spain.
Then he won a compensation claim and invested it in cannabis,cocaine
and ecstasy business, taking advantage of of the break-up of Vreonica
Guerin murder suspect John Gilligan's multi-million pound operation.
As a front he establihed a sucessful courier company using it to
distribute his drugs and launder the profitss. O'Keefe who is reckoned
to have up to 30 members in his criminal gang, was getting into the big
time.
In December 1995 he was suspected of being responsible for the gun
attack on Martin 'the general ' Cahill's hardman Martin 'the viper'Foley
in a row over a woman.
Since then O'keefe secretly married the woman in a Medthodist church in
Barbados. The couple have one little child and are expecting another.
Whenever his current difficulties are sorted, O'Keefe may have another
problem with the authorities.
Gardai believe he is still officially married to themother of his eight
year old daughter back in Dublin.
O'Keefe likes to live the high life and takes several expensive exotic
holidays a year and even owns his own private yacht.
But such "success " attracted the wrong kinds of attention.
About a year ago he began having problems with Duffy and his cohorts.
Declan Duffy has been living in Dublin for more than six years and has
been involved in serious crime.particularly extortion and imtimidation.
Also known as @Northern Seanie' he has been arrested and questioned by
Gardai on a number of occasions in connection with serious crime
investigations.
Duffy once Bragged to a sunday world reporter about how, as second in
command of the INLA in Dublin, he had shot several people.
"when we take a vote to shoot someone I always vote for the shot in the
head but I am often overruled. If I am doing a leg shot I make sure the
man never walks again , he said.
"It's not just the case of putting one bullet behind the knee I always
fire about NINE. Four into one leg and FIVE into the other "
In the summer of 1996 he and his cronies set up an anti drug movement in
a Dublin suberb, posing for pictures wearing balaclavas and toting
automatic handguns.
They declared that they were going to murder drug dealers if they did
not get out of the area.
In reality the stunt was set-up to terrify drug dealers into handing
over cash. Money was also collected from residents of the in return for
making it a drug free zone.
One of the men who posed for the cameras----John Morris(27) from
Tallaght in west Dublin -was subsequently shot dead by Gardai in June
1997 after an armed robbery
Duffy and his pals later issued a threats to murder the Gardai officer
who pulled the trigger.
At the time of his death Morris they claimed was "engaged in a struggle
against British Imperialism and Irish Capitalism"
the brave INLA men had just held up a newspaper distributors.
At least two of the men involved in that robbery are amongthe INLA team
who began tArgeting Brian O'Keefe
They began putting the heavy arm on O'Keefe and his assocaites for a
slice of the action.
The message was simple; if he wanted to continue in business then he was
going to pay and pay dearly.
Duffy's men began openly threatening to kill O'Keefe
The situation worsened three months ago when Duffy and his INLA chums
abducted O'Keefe from a Dublin nightclub where they operated as bouncers
secretly controlling the sale of ecstacy inside.
He was taken to a flat on the northside of the city and tortured for
several hours.
Later O'Keefe claimed he managed to escape but former assocaites tell a
different story.
According to one source to one source he agreed to pay a figure between
£30,000 and £58000 to Duffy and company.
The money was paid over in recent weeks.Said the source "O'Keefe was
well pissed off that he had to fork out.He said that they {inla} were
nothing more then theiving rats"
Then Sundat two weeks ago things again came to a head when an assocaite
of O'Keefe's was attacked by a friend of Duffy'sinla men.
The following night O'Keefe's mne went looking for the man who attacked
his assocaite.they smashed their way into the man's home. Their target
hid in the attic and they were unable to dislodge him, dispite pushing a
sword up through the ceiling to stab him.
An agreement was made that four of O'Keefe'f men would meet in the
Ballymount,west Dublin factory for a "straightner" to sort things out
between them and pal's attacker.
At the same time the curtains on the side if one of O'Keefe's lorries
was burned by friends of the INLA
The tension was beginning to build
On the night of the bloodbath O'Keefe sent 6 of his cronies up to the
industrail estate
He remained outside while they walked into a nightmare. They were
surrounded by Duffy,Campbelland three other INLA men.
When he heard the screams for mercy outside O'keefe went back to to his
house in Walkinstown and summoned help.
He and 11 others sped to the factory in a van and gave the INLa a severe
beating. Duffy and his cohorts were in the process of dumping O'keefe's
battered and bloody pals into a van.
they had just dismantled their guns and placed them inside a holdall bag
in the middle of the factory floor. Since the incident several members
of the INLA have arrived in Dublin to avenge their comrades's death.
Duffy himself has been lying low. He and his cronies who organised the
Ballymount incident have to expain to thier leadership exactly what they
were up to and what purpose did Campbell's death serve.
In the meantime the men who almost lost their lives helping out O'Keefe
are extremely angry that he has left them high and dry
One of of seriously injured is the son of a former senior member of the
IRA who has since defected to the Real IRA/
most of those involved in the incident say they were not involved in
drug dealing despite the claims of Duffy and company.
However , one thing is undisputed; the fued between Duffy and O'keeefe
is far from over
THis was taken from the Sunday World pages 1,2,3
more ABOUT THE ACTUAL INJURIES SUFFERED AND THE TORTURE INVOLVED METTED
OUT BY THE INLA CAN BE READ IN THE SAME PAPER
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In article <JIkMOOG3sxVHPV...@4ax.com>, Gerard Cunningham
<Ger@r.d> writes
>Apparently its okay to kill your own in internal feuds. Republicans
>can kill republicans, catholics can kill catholics, loyalists can kill
>loyalists, etc, but you can't engage in cross-community killing for
>sectarian purposes.
>
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Bruscar
Gerard Cunningham <Ger@r.d> wrote in message
news:uakMOEdDCj00im...@4ax.com...
> Bruscar wrote:
>
> >Again another example of Danielles fixation with these smalltime
> >drug-dealing criminal louts
>
She/he is probably a nice person, just a gullible yank who has been misled
by Irish republican propaganda . Probably gives the shits money as well !
Roger
continue to let the all the associated criminals out of jail? Apparently
so.
Roger
Danielle Ni Dhighe
>She/he is probably a nice person, just a gullible yank who has been misled
>by Irish republican propaganda . Probably gives the shits money as well !
As a member of the IRSM, I pay monthly dues. Now as for gullible, aren't you
the one who believes everything the media says?
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"We can't give up dreaming, even if it sounds romantic and obsolete."
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Heron
>can kill republicans, catholics can kill catholics, loyalists can kill
>loyalists, etc, but you can't engage in cross-community killing for
>sectarian purposes.
>
GFA.
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Heron?
Heron
>the one who believes everything the media says?
>
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Heron?
Heron
<Ger@r.d> writes
>
but ger, once you explained it to me it all made sence. i had to post.
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Heron?