IRA bomb strategy linked to British intelligence

BRITAIN’S intelligence services may have masterminded an IRA human bomb strategy which killed soldiers and civilians in the North in 1990, a lobby group claimed yesterday.

The British Irish Rights Watch (BIRW) said counter-terrorism agencies may have been behind the lethal strategy, which saw six soldiers and one civilian die after civilians linked to the security forces were made to drive explosives into army facilities.

The pressure group has sent a dossier to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)’s Historical Enquiries Team about the October 1990 bombing of three army installations and checkpoints, two of which exploded.