The Trigger Men: Assassins and Terror Bosses in the Ireland Conflict
Martin Dillon
Language: English
Pages: 320
ISBN: B005XJO040
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In The Trigger Men, bestselling author Martin Dillon delves into the dark and sinister world of Irish terrorism and counter-terrorism. Over three decades he has interviewed and investigated some of the most professional, dangerous and ruthless killers in Ireland. Now Dillon explores their personalities, motivations and bizarre crimes.Many of Ireland's assassins learned their trade in fields and on hillsides in remote parts of Ireland, while others were trained in the Middle East or with Basque separatist terrorists in Spain. Some were one-target-one-shot killers, like the sniper who terrorised the inhabitants of Washington State in the autumn of 2002, while others were bombers skilled in designing the most sophisticated explosive devices and booby traps. Another more powerful group of 'trigger men' were the influential figures in the shadows, who were experts in motivating the killers under their control. All of these men, whether they squeezed the trigger on a high-powered rifle, set the timer on a bomb or used their authority to send others out to commit horrific and unspeakable acts of cruelty, are featured in this book. The Trigger Men takes the reader inside the labyrinthine world of terrorist cells and highly classified counter-terrorism units of British Military Intelligence. The individual stories are described in gripping, unflinching detail and show how the terrorists carried out their ghastly work. Dillon also explores the ideology of the cult of the gunmen and the greed and hatred that motivated assassins in their killing sprees. There are penetrating insights into the mindset of the most infamous assassins: their social and historical conditioning, their callousness......
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Harold Wilson. In a bitterly ironic twist of history, the Labour Home Secretary, Jim Callaghan, decided to brief himself on the situation. To his astonishment, he found Northern Ireland listed in a single, dusty file in an office cabinet. Other files in that cabinet dealt with the issuing of dog licensing laws and rules governing London taxis. Clearly, from a British perspective, Northern Ireland had really been a place apart where other rules had applied. That arrangement had been fine as long
aggravated after several loyalists were assassinated. He realised that he needed to find a way to make sure he was insulated from their hit squads. What was required was a firm guarantee that he would never be on their target list. In furtherance of that objective, he used one of his inner circle to make it known to the IRA’s Belfast Brigade that he had no intention of targeting them. It was a clever ploy because he knew there was an unspoken rule that leaders on both sides were not to be
personality, objectives and leadership qualities. Harding Smith was quiet, devious, ruthless and determined to shape the UDA along the lines of the UVF, which he admired. He wanted discipline and a defined strategy. Herron was also ruthless, with a propensity for criminality. Unlike his counterpart, he strutted round UDA HQ in East Belfast like a Mafia Capo, his legally registered pistol in a holster. As long as his cronies got action, there was no need to worry about where the money came from to
