IRA 'incapable of launching sustained Bloody Sunday attack'

A former member of the Official IRA has told the Saville Inquiry that the republican movement was effectively incapable of launching an attack on British soldiers in Derry on Bloody Sunday.

IRA 'incapable of launching sustained Bloody Sunday attack'

A former member of the Official IRA has told the Saville Inquiry that the republican movement was effectively incapable of launching an attack on British soldiers in Derry on Bloody Sunday.

The witness, identified only as OIRA7, said IRA members often patrolled Derry with unloaded guns because they lacked ammunition.

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