SAS shooting 'destroyed deadly IRA unit'

When the SAS gunned down eight IRA men as they prepared to blow up a Co Armagh police station in 1987, one of the Provisionals’ deadliest units was devastated.

SAS shooting 'destroyed deadly IRA unit'

When the SAS gunned down eight IRA men as they prepared to blow up a Co Armagh police station in 1987, one of the Provisionals’ deadliest units was devastated.

A security source with inside knowledge of the East Tyrone brigade at the time, accused them of carrying out a spate of killings in what he dubbed the murder triangle.

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