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Northern ireland
  • 1986 - 1990
  • United Kingdom
Identification of the Source

Mindb4Act Project report

Description
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Type of Crime

To join a terrorist group called INLA, the more extreme organisation of IRA.

Modus Operandi

People involved

XX

Criminal History

He joined the IRA in the early 1970s, and claimed to be the leader of the Fianna, the youth wing of the IRA, in 1972. According to XX, in a testimony given in the Saville Inquiry into the 1972 incident which claimed 14 lives (known as the "Bloody Sunday" incident), he was given around 16 nail bombs to be distributed in highly populated areas in Londonderry, the second largest city in Northern Ireland. XX claimed he was instructed to do so by high ranking IRA members.

Influential and/or vulnerable Groups

The INLA, the more extreme organisation