Omagh Bomb Cop Norman Baxter Lied Giving Evidence !

The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee have confirmed that they will include in the final report on the Omagh Bombing, a letter from Kevin Fulton that states that former Omagh Bomb investigator Norman Baxter RUC / PSNI, purposely misled (lied ) in his evidence in regard to Kevin Fulton. Fulton has publicly exposed the former senior police officer as a liar, Fulton challenged Norman Baxter to produce the evidence about the fabricated statement that Baxter spoke about in his evidence to the committee in regard to intelligence matters over the Omagh Bombing, Fulton challenged Baxter to repeat the statement outside the British Parliament.

Adams' family values strip him of all moral authority

Adams' family values strip him of all moral authority
Gerry Adams' position as Sinn Féin president has been made untenable by revelations of the lies he has told about the way his alleged paedophile brother was protected for 22 years, writes Northern Editor Suzanne Breen

Adams' revelation that his father, Gerard Senior, was abusive should not divert attention from the Sinn Féin president's lies; if he were the leader of any other party, he would have had to resign by now
Gerard Senior
Gerry Adams and, to his immediate left, his brother Liam, canvassing in Dundalk in 1997
Adams attended his brother's wedding at the Bellingham Castle hotel in Louth, having been made aware of the allegations
1234It's a horrific story of alleged child abuse, lies, inaction that potentially placed countless Irish children at risk for over two decades, and a cover-up which is still continuing. Sinn Féin member and suspected paedophile Liam Adams was moved around Ireland in the same way that abusing Catholic priests went from parish to parish.

Gerry Adams has believed for 22 years that his brother is a paedophile. Yet he attended his wedding, took him canvassing for Sinn Féin in Dundalk, allowed him to remain active in the party – and lied about it.

He knew Liam was working with children in various youth projects. Yet despite his public claims, he has as yet produced no evidence to prove that he took action to have Liam removed by his employers.

Liam Adams is facing 23 charges in the North of raping and abusing his daughter, Áine Tyrell, between 1978 and 1983. Áine reported the alleged rapes to the RUC in 1987.

Gerry Adams' disturbingly inadequate response to his brother's suspected abuse makes him politically toxic. He is stripped of all credibility and moral authority. His position as a public figure is untenable. Were he the leader of any other party, he would have resigned by now. Would Brian Cowen, Enda Kenny, Peter Robinson or Mark Durkan survive such damning revelations? Not a chance.

Yet Gerry Adams defiantly holds onto the reins of power. In any other party, there would be uproar in the ranks with senior colleagues demanding he go. In Sinn Féin, not a single voice of even mild complaint has been raised. Indeed, Mary Lou McDonald – presented as a champion of women's and children's rights – has strongly defended him.

Since Áine went public about her father Liam's alleged abuse on UTV's Insight programme 10 days ago, Gerry Adams' account of events has been littered with lies, evasions and inconsistencies. The Sinn Féin president has many serious questions to answer. Áine told him of the alleged rapes in 1987. He said he believed her.

Gerry Adams' first lie was that he was estranged from his brother for 15 years. This "estrangement" is said to have lasted until 2002-2003. Yet the Sunday Tribune has discovered the opposite.

He attended Liam's wedding and reception in the Bellingham Castle hotel in Co Louth. How can Gerry Adams justify attending the wedding of a brother he believed to be a paedophile? How can he stand smiling beside Liam for the wedding photographs when he knows Áine is a wreck, barely able to sleep at night?

Gerry Adams also lied about his brother's activities in Sinn Féin in Dundalk. Liam Adams lived and worked in Muirhevnamor, a well-known republican estate to which many Belfast IRA members on the run moved.

The Sunday Tribune last week reported he had sought the nomination to be Sinn Féin's Co Louth candidate in the 1997 Dáil election, which was won by local hardline republican Owenie Hanratty. Sinn Féin comprehensively denied this. Gerry Adams said that as soon as he had heard Liam might be nominated, he intervened: "I moved immediately both to stop that and to get him dumped out of Sinn Féin... I moved very, very quickly."

Today, we expose this as a lie. Far from having Liam "dumped" from the party, Gerry Adams accompanied his suspected paedophile brother on a Sinn Féin canvass through Dundalk town centre just days before the 6 June election. The Sunday Tribune has uncovered photographs and a newspaper report of the event. The brothers are seen laughing on the canvass – more proof that they were not "estranged".

We have also statements from three republicans who were present at the selection convention in the Imperial Hotel, which Sinn Féin still denies took place. It was chaired by Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin and minutes were taken, the sources said. Liam Adams was supported mainly by Belfast republicans living in Dundalk who were moderate and pro-leadership.

Local Dundalk republicans, and south Armagh men living in Co Louth, rallied behind Hanratty. After a debate, it was agreed that IRA activists and republican supporters who weren't in Sinn Féin could vote at the meeting.

"The room was jam-packed," one source said. "Liam Adams came in with two envelopes. I'm told one was an acceptance speech and the other was one of him conceding. He immediately saw from the crowd gathered that he wouldn't win, so he pulled out. A massive show-of-hands defeat would have damaged his brother."

Another source said: "Liam announced to the room that he was withdrawing from the race. He wished Owenie Hanratty all the best, pledged to work for him on the election campaign, and they shook hands."

Sinn Féin claims Liam's involvement in the party in Dundalk was brief, but republican sources insist it lasted at least seven years. One source said Gerry Adams regularly visited his brother in Muirhevnamor, staying overnight in his home many times.

Liam Adams was strongly drawn to jobs that provided access to young people. He constantly sought and, with incredible success, secured them in west Belfast and Dundalk. Questions must be asked as to who provided references for him and who sat on the interview panels.

Gerry Adams said that when he became aware of some of the jobs Liam held, he took action to inform the relevant authorities. He has so far produced no written record of this. Nor has he disclosed the names of those he spoke to in the projects Liam worked for, or of those he spoke to in social services.

None of Liam Adams' four employers has said they were contacted by Gerry Adams. Indeed Brendan Dineen of Clonard Youth Centre said it had reviewed all its documentation "and there is no record whatsoever regarding concerns about Liam Adams during his time of employment at Clonard".

The youth centre, located in the grounds of Clonard Monastery, is 300 yards from Sinn Féin's Falls Road offices where Gerry Adams would have visited almost every day on party business. He also worships in the monastery. It is inconceivable that, for five years, he didn't quickly know his brother worked in Clonard.

Gerry Adams has a close relationship with certain priests in the monastery who were intimately involved in the peace process. Solicitor Pádraigín Drinan, who represents the Rape Crisis Centre, has one disturbing memory from around 10 years ago at the annual Clonard novena in June.

Worshippers write down their 'intentions' and a panel selects which are read out from the altar.

"One intention asked for a person who had made allegations of sexual abuse to police to forgive the man involved and withdraw the complaint. I was appalled," Drinan says. She complained to the monastery.

If the Sinn Féin president was genuinely concerned that his brother was securing so many jobs working with young people, why didn't he make those concerns public? He didn't have to compromise his niece's identity. A statement could simply have outlined that his brother was unsuited to working with young people. But that would have risked public embarrassment. In­stead, Gerry Adams stayed silent and his own west Belfast constituents were potentially put at risk from his suspected paedophile brother.

Gerry Adams must also explain why, in his 1996 autobiography, Before the Dawn, he made 11 references to "our Liam" with no insinuation of suspected wrongdoing. Did he not think this might deeply upset Áine?

Did Gerry Adams not read Republican News, his party's official newspaper, which in 1997 advertised a pamphlet his brother had written on drug abuse among children? Why didn't he take action as Liam repeatedly gave interviews on youth issues to a range of newspapers, including the Irish News, the Mirror and the Irish Independent, thus allowing Liam to build his reputation in that field?

An Irish News article of 6 August 2006 reports: "A parents' guide to drugs and alcohol written by Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams' brother was launched in west Belfast yesterday." Liam Adams is quoted speaking at the launch. Why didn't the Sinn Féin president swiftly distance himself from his brother and his spiralling public profile as a youth worker?

Gerry Adams' personal response after Áine's revelations has been criticised by sexual abuse counsellors. In 1987, he drove his vulnerable 14-year-old niece to Donegal to confront her father who was living there. They sat down to tea and Mikado biscuits.

Áine's family say that, while Gerry Adams was sympathetic at first, his attitude changed in Donegal. When Liam denied the allegations and Áine persisted, Gerry Adams is said to have stated: "it's like trying to prove who stole the apples from the cart".

Sinn Féin had a vibrant women's department. Why didn't Adams seek and implement their advice – still without revealing his niece's identity – about how to handle the situation?

When Áine again raised the issues of the rapes with Gerry Adams in 2003 – wanting her father to admit his crimes to her – a five-year period of secret meetings began with Gerry and his brother Paddy Adams. Áine's family now believe the meetings were to shut her up by giving her false hope. Eventually, she ended the meetings.

"When I heard Áine talk about those endless, useless meetings, I remembered how Sinn Féin had done the same to us in the early stages of our campaign, using double-speak and trying to 'handle' us," said Catherine McCartney, whose brother Robert was murdered by Provisional IRA members. "My heart went out to her."

There are other questions too. Áine reported the alleged rapes to the RUC in 1987. If they didn't already know about them, MI5 learned of Liam Adams' reported crimes then. British intelligence had a perfect opportunity to leak these details to harm Gerry Adams, the most influential Sinn Féin and IRA figure in Ireland. They didn't, and many republicans are now asking why.

Then there's the IRA's response. An ex-prisoner said: "Liam Adams escaped scott-free, while the IRA has tied women to lamp-posts, cut off their hair, and tarred and feathered them for simply dating British soldiers."

Why was Liam Adams a protected species when other alleged sex offenders were maimed and murdered by the IRA?

Paddy Adams, Gerry's brother, enjoyed similar immunity in republican ranks. In the 1980s, he hired IRA guns to criminals in west Belfast for money. One ex-IRA member said: "Anyone else would have been shot or expelled. Nothing happened to Paddy."

Gerry Adams' revelation that his father, Gerard Senior, was a sex abuser shouldn't divert attention from the Sinn Féin president's lies and shameful behaviour following the reported rape of his niece. Of course, he shouldn't be held responsible for his brother. What he can be blamed for is 22 years of putting the Adams name before the protection of children on both sides of the border, children he has always claimed to care so much about.

December 27, 2009.
The Sunday Tribune.

Exposed: Gerry Adams' lies over brother's Sinn Féin role

Suzanne Breen, Northern Editor

The Argus, 6 June 1997Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams actively canvassed for the party in the general election of 1997 with his suspected paedophile brother Liam – in a period he claims they were estranged.

Today we publish photographs showing Gerry and Liam Adams canvassing side-by-side for Sinn Féin in Dundalk at a date when Gerry Adams insists his brother had been expelled from the party.

Liam Adams, who is wanted by the PSNI on charges that he repeatedly raped his daughter Aine from the age of four, is seen canvassing in a shopping centre and Dundalk streets and laughing with his brother Gerry, just days before the 6 June 1997 Dáil election.

A Co Louth republican said: "I'm horrified that, 10 years after Gerry Adams was told his brother was a child rapist, he accompanied him through the streets of Dundalk, meeting women and children. We are all shocked Liam Adams was allowed to be in Sinn Féin so long. We are disgusted at Gerry Adams's cover-up."

Last week, the Sunday Tribune reported that Liam Adams had put himself forward as a nominee for the Sinn Féin 1997 Dáil candidacy in Louth. At a selection convention, he saw he didn't garner enough support and publicly withdrew. The candidacy was secured by hardline republican, Owenie Hanratty.

Commenting on this newspaper's report, Gerry Adams said: "When I heard Liam was in Sinn Féin, and when I heard somebody was putting it about that perhaps he would be a candidate, I moved immediately both to stop that and get him dumped out of Sinn Féin ... I moved very, very quickly."

But far from being "dumped", Liam Adams remained fully active in the party with his brother's endorsement months later. By accompanying Liam Adams on the canvass for Hanratty, the Sinn Féin president effectively promoted his brother in the eyes of the local party and community.

Gerry Adams happily posed with Liam – along with Owenie Hanratty and Hanratty's wife Marie and election agent Fra Browne – for the Dundalk Argus newspaper. The photo­-graph, taken days earlier, appeared in the paper on 6 June 1997. Bar Gerry Adams, no-one else in the photograph knew Liam Adams was a suspected paedophile.

During the canvass, Liam Adams proudly sported a Sinn Féin badge. The Sunday Tribune has been told Gerry Adams regularly visited his brother's home in Muirhevnamor and stayed overnight at a time when he claimed to he was "estranged" from him.

Liam Adams handed himself into Sligo gardaí last week, but wasn't arrested because the PSNI hadn't prepared an extradition warrant. He has denied raping Aine.

Sinn Féin claims that Liam Adams played a short, minor role in the party are strongly challenged by many republicans. One said: "Liam was active in Sinn Féin in Dundalk for at least seven years. He was synonymous with the party's name here. He was seen as an asset to Sinn Féin and the community.

"He breathed new life into the Muirhevnamor cumann. He set up many community schemes. He was the Dundalk face of Gerry Adams. He was always referring to his brother saying 'Our fellow says this ...' and 'Our fellow's in the know on that'."

The source said Liam Adams's loyalty was "first and foremost to Gerry rather than to the republican movement" which sometimes caused clashes with local republicans: "He constantly promoted the Belfast leadership's position which didn't go down well. But he was a nice guy who was well-liked.

"After one heated meeting on the Mitchell principles (of peace and non-violence), he went for a pint afterwards with those he'd rowed with." The source said Liam Adams attended hundreds of Sinn Féin meetings, nearly all of which were minuted. He said Liam Adams left Dundalk "still a member of Sinn Féin" in August 1998.

Bizarrely, Liam Adams is quoted in the Irish Independent in July 1998 as a "youth community leader" in Dundalk talking about a "very well organised" paedophile ring which may have links in Donegal. Liam Adams previously lived in Donegal.

Another source said Liam Adams set up homework clubs for children.


December 27, 2009
The Sunday Tribune.

Big Brother still protecting Adams!

Big Brother still protecting Adams!

Big brother is still protecting Liam Adams!, it is a well known fact ( among a select few ) that Liam Adams ( brother of the bearded one, Gerry Adams ) was an informer, Liam was recruited by the British Army (FRU) in the early 1980s, before his daughter raised concerns about the molestation. Liam was interviewed by the IRA's internal security unit, after admitting his treachery he was given a amnesty and banished to leave the six counties, a short number of years later Liam was caught informing again, and again because of his big brother Gerry Adams, Liam was again spared a death sentence by the IRA. Big Brother Gerry Adams knew of his Brothers informing to the British, and the whole thing was covered up by the IRA ( it was two embarrassing for the movement )

Former British Army spy handler Martin Ingram piece back in 2005 about Liam Adams & Gerry Adams cover up:

Ex Police Chief lied over Omagh Bombing.

Ex Police Chief lied to MP's over Omagh Bombing.

Ex Police Chief Norman Baxter lied to members of Parliament in his evidence to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, Norman lied over comments he made regarding Kevin Fulton, . Mr Baxter fabricated his evidence saying that former British Army & MI5 agent Kevin Fulton had made a statement saying that he had lied over information he gave in regard to the Omagh Bombing, Fulton was quick to rubbish Baxter's evidence, Fulton's solicitor has rubbished Baxter's evidence to the committee in regard to his client Kevin Fulton.

Questions are now being asked in legal circles about evidence given by Norman Baxter in a number of court cases in Northern Ireland.

Gerry Adams protected Liam the pedo, & Liam the tout

At a time in Irish history when informers where shot and left at the side of the road, Gerry Adams younger brother Liam was an informer for the British Army's FRU, Gerry made sure that the fate of many other agents of the state did not befall his young brother. Liam was forced by the PIRA to move out of the six counties into the Republic of Ireland.
Below is an article written by Martin Ingram a former Force Research Unit soldier, this article was written in 2005.




http://cryptome.org/ingram-spies.htm



31 December 2005. Thanks to A.
Martin Ingram, a pseudonym, was a British Army (Force Research Unit) covert agent in Northern Ireland.

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[Martin Ingram writes:]
Every time an agent is exposed within the Sinn Fein /IRA organisation you see deep turmoil caused within Republicanism by this exposure, I suppose that is a natural and understandable reaction. Mick Hall in his article dated 21/12/2005 entitled ‘Defeating the enemy within’ is naïve in believing Sinn Fein to be a normal political party. How can it be when it is controlled and colludes with the British Administration? What is required is a new party that represents all strands of the broad Nationalist/Republican interest, free from British influence. When I read Mick’s article I just could not help but enjoy a momentary smile. This warmth is not generated from a desire to see Republicans squirm or become embarrassed but by a genuine admiration for my former colleagues who have run brave agents in a hostile environment.
Any momentary warmth soon evaporates and I revert back into my Nationalist persona. I honestly do believe in a United Ireland and it is an achievable and a just cause. That said it won’t be achieved by murder and corruption and even if it could be it would not be worth the price. I am also certain that articles like Mick Halls dated 21/12/2005 do certainly not help the cause. One may as well be asked to hibernate until the next tout is exposed if you follow Mick’s logic.
I can hear certain elements asking loudly why should we trust this fucking Brit? Well I would turn that question 180 degrees and ask WHY would the RM trust those who have been at the helm of the Republican ship for over two and half decades and achieved WHAT? A stranded ship going anywhere but home.
The peace process today. The GFA is full of ifs’ and buts’ and more than a few maybes. We have PIRA in retirement mode with a public stance that all its weapons have been decommissioned. I can’t help thinking with a smirk what South Armagh and Tyrone Republicans think of that goodwill gesture? After all have the Loyalists not been able to retain the weapons that it acquired from South Africa with a little help from my colleagues within the FRU? I thought this GFA agreement was based upon equality. Who negotiated that one??
We understand the Republican leadership negotiated a deal at Hillsborough in 2003, which clearly stated all persons who had committed a scheduled offence, would be included in the legislation dealing with OTRs. Now Sinn Fein lied about when this deal was struck but thanks to the SDLP who has provided the documentary evidence we know the truth. Now even a fool would surmise that the British would use any opportunity that was available to admonish its’ members who have undoubtedly committed criminal/scheduled offences. You don’t need to be Einstein to see that train coming. Now Adams isn’t any Einstein but on the other hand he is no fool either? So WHY did he agree to this deal? Did he not think that the victims of Bloody Sunday Dublin/ Monaghan would fail to notice this sleight of hand or did he not care?
I accept Sinn Fein have finally backed away from this deal - but they had two feet in it for a long time, why? The sight of Connor Murphy stood proud and upright defending this Sinn Fein British Govt joint agreement outside the British parliament in London was impressive. I wonder did Connor really believe in that legislation or was he just on a mission for Gerry. Over to you, Connor?
Now lets be generous to Mr Adams and Mr McGuinness on this. Maybe Gerry and Martin with a few words of comfort from their old comrade Dennis and compulsive M & S shopper were having a bad day when they negotiated this deal, no problem with that, we all have off days. The problem though here is when the world woke up and said: Eh this is not on what did Sinn Fein do. It did what it knows best, it lies. It claimed that it did not know that State forces could be included in this deal to allow a small number of IRA/Loyalists who were OTR to return home. The SDLP had to provide the evidence that Sinn Fein agreed this deal years ago and only then did Sinn Fein stumble and start to back track. Suddenly the penny dropped with Gerry and he realised he could no longer walk hand in hand with Tony Blair on this one.
Let us move on to the topical issue of agents. Mr Adams and Mr McGuinness know, only too well, how and why agents operate? They operate to provide both tactical and strategic intelligence upon the target and to allow the persons charged with operating those agents to make informed decisions. Those decisions will be designed to disrupt the effective running of the target and to influence its’ own decisions into areas which are controllable and desired. In other words make the enemy do what you want it to do without it knowing because you want that target to operate for as long as possible believing it is operating to its own agenda.
Now when we all stop smirking we can get back to the serious business.
If you are a Republican one would assume rightly you would be asking the following question of the movement. How do we counter this type of activity? (Espionage - or spying for the layman).
The obvious questions a republican should have been asking over the last twenty-five years are some of the following.
Firstly, you would put yourself in your enemies mind and work out your own Vulnerable Points (VP). You would then - armed with this information - develop a sophisticated security department, whose sole job would be to analyse and expose any agents who work against your interests, just like the Brits have. It would be manned by dedicated and trustworthy individuals and rotated and at unpredictable intervals to disrupt any long-term infiltration. Republicans would know that the one unit in its army that could cause the most harm if compromised would be the Security/ Intelligence Department.
What did the IRA do under Adams/McGuinness leadership? It established a unit manned by one ex-British marine ( J J Magee) and promoted Freddie Scappaticci to his deputy.
Now either Adams and McGuinness are the two unluckiest people on this planet or it was no accident. Today everybody knows about Stake Knife (Freddy). Even Messrs Adams and McGuinness - who were initially reluctant to admit that Freddie (and others) whose roles within the Security department were as paid informers and killers. Ok, lets assume more bad luck here and give the benefit of doubt to Adams and McGuinness.
No problem. Because we have done our homework. We know what our VP are and we have worked out that it is best to change personnel at regular intervals to avoid prolonged damage if indeed the Brits managed to compromise us.
Now did that happen under Adams/McGuinness leadership? NO. What do you mean NO? Ok, so they did not regularly change these personnel but surely they did change them at some stage?
The truth is they did not change them at all until one died through cancer and the other lasted more than twenty-five years before he was retired. Well, let’s ask Mr Adams that question. Why did you retire Freddy?
Ok, lets assume that both Adams/McGuinness are trusting individuals and have been unlucky by being caught short on this one? Lets move on.
During my first tour in NI I worked for the Force Research Unit in Derry. We had a very, very nice man on our books that worked for us as an agent, he was called Frank Hegarty. The Intelligence services knew through a vast army of PIRA informers that the IRA was being supplied with modern weaponry from Libya. This information had been gathered for many months prior to the shipments.
I was only in my mid-twenties during this period. Although I had been in NI for a couple of years at this time. I had been asked a few months prior to become involved with Frankie code name 3018 on a co-handler basis. At this time Frankie was not a prolific informer, he had old links back to the IRA of today but not a lot else. He had I was told by my boss some friendship or past association with Martin McGuinness and the agent should be encouraged to become closer to McGuinness. I met this man and quickly developed warmth for him. He was a genuine working class man who like myself enjoyed the dogs, horses and women. I liked him. That said he was not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I admit I never thought twice about asking Frankie to get alongside McGuinness. Frankie complied with our request and became involved with McGuinness. McGuinness vouched for this man against the advice of other senior Republicans. Astoundingly within months was allocated a massive cache of arms and munitions. Now that was lucky was it not? Sometime later this cache of arms was recovered and Frank was recovered to a place of safety. It was at the time the largest ever find in the Island of Ireland.
My Father suddenly became ill before the recovery of the arms and Frankos exposure. I requested and was offered a position within a security department close to my hometown and a rise in rank for good service was also appreciated. This was a compassionate posting. Within two weeks I had left Derry and although I returned subsequently to the FRU after my father died it was never quite the same again.
During this compassionate posting I was asked to become involved in the resettlement of two informers who had become exposed and because I had first hand knowledge of both of them I accepted with the blessing of my father who was very ill. Over a period of time L Branch was looking after both Frank Hegarty and Willie Carlin. During this period I met with both Frank and Willie on almost a daily basis.
During this period Willie Carlin received a phone call directly from Martin McGuinness. This phone call was taped and reports made to record this event. McGuinness reassured Willie Carlin that all would be well and he should return to Derry his hometown to be with his family and he (McGuinness) would personally vouch for Frank’s safety. Once the phone call had finished Carlin told me that he (McGuinness) must think I am a fucking idiot. I had to agree and we both shared a smile.
I prepared a report and handed the tapes over to my boss, Lt Col Kerr. Given Martin McGuinness’ position within the PIRA I took this to be a conspiracy to murder. Kerr concurred and to be honest I never saw sight of either the report or the tape again. A few years ago Carlin spoke to Liam Clarke at the Sunday Times and he mentioned the phone calls made by McGuinness to reassure and hopefully allow him to return home. Carlin did not know the call was taped.
I also had contact with Frank Hegarty and he too informed me that he also had contact with McGuinness. Frank, too, had also been offered a safe return by McGuinness. It is true that Frank was depressed and missed his family very much and his hometown of Derry. I was upset at the state of this man. He was depressed, but as far as I knew, he had not been to see a doctor. I had been assigned to Carlin on a 24 hr basis and only occasionally did I have contact with Frank. I think I met with Frank two or three times over a few weeks. Frank told me that McGuinness had made it clear - come home and the mess can be sorted. I told Frank to forget it; it was not going to happen.
The two people who had been assigned to baby-sit Frank were the easygoing sort and one of them was not a badged FRU member. At the time I did not really think much about this decision. Although it was a strange one. I was aware that Kerr thought Frank to be a security concern and his depression was a potential problem for the FRU. I did not for one moment think that they would allow Frank to return to Derry and if he did they would make it impossible - or at least very difficult - for the IRA to operate against him. Freddie Scappaticci, as the PIRA internal security man, gave the inside story of where, when and how Frank was to be got. What did the FRU do? Fuck all!! Why? I don’t know except I know they could have done a lot. It certainly helped Martin though! A little credibility restored. Derry to the best of my knowledge only ever caught and dealt with one real informer and that one was certainly not Paddy Flood. Why is that? Bad LUCK Martin would argue.
If you listen carefully to the Freddie tapes of his conversation at the Culloden hotel with the journalists, he neatly avoids the question in relation to who killed Franko. I wonder why? Perhaps that was one step too far even for brassed neck Freddie.
I know Frank was murdered by a British Agent (Freddy Scappaticci) accompanied or at least directed by McGuinness and others. It was not just bad luck that killed Frank he was a victim of collusion. Last year I had the privilege of speaking with his son, he is a victim and he deserves the truth, not Sinn Fein/Brits version of it…
Today, we know that Frank did return to Derry and we know from his family that McGuinness did have some part to play in his decision to meet with members of the PIRA just over the border into Donegal. Indeed there is not much we don’t know about that murder. We know the police and others including the Cook report investigated McGuinness. We know the police had prepared a case for prosecution (Operation Taurus) and were confident in their case, indeed unusually for terrorist related offences, the police had the confidence of three witnesses prepared to give evidence against Martin, that was bad luck, Eh, Martin. No problem though his luck suddenly changed for the better. We now know that in a similar way to Stormontgate the decision to proceed with the case was NOT in the public interest and it was suggested to the police in a secret document now in the public domain that McGuinness was shortly to meet with the Govt to discuss the future. The Police were told to back off McGuinness. The case was dropped. It looks like Martin's luck had changed? Not bad except this activity is not justice, this is collusion.
I could go on about this chapter in McGuinness/Hegarty incident but in legal correspondence (i.e. when the MOD attempted to prosecute me and the Sunday Times) the Treasury solicitor makes reference to matters affecting National Security in relation to the Frank Hegarty case. Well the man's dead, the weapons recovered, what’s left? Ah, Say no more lads, your secrets are safe with me!
In recent times individuals from the security forces, who have their own agenda, have provided certain documents to others which I have seen sight off and which if authentic - and I have no reason to doubt their authenticity - would indicate that Martin McGuinness has had more than his fair share of bad luck.
Lets just assume that Martin is a really unlucky guy, lets see if his mate Gerry is any luckier.
A security force agent Brian Nelson hated Adams with buckets of venom. He had planned to have Gerry killed and informed his handlers of his intention. His handlers did not take the high moral ground and say to their agent ‘you can not and will not do that’. Instead they did not inform Nelson that they had been informed by their command staff to frustrate this attack. Having secured the full details of the attack being planned by Nelson the handlers employed the services of other specialist units to tamper with the ammunition that was to be used in the attack and thus kid Nelson and the UDA into thinking that their attack upon Adams was just unlucky.
This incident was the very first Martin Ingram and Liam Clarke wrote for the Sunday Times in 1999. Within days the Governments legal services were threatening legal action against the paper and informing the Sunday Times that they knew the identity of their source (me). In secret, the government applied to the high court and were awarded an injunction against me revealing any state secrets. Nelson had been compromised by then and the technique of tampering with the bullet is older than my mother in law? So what state secret? Any ideas?

Exclusive - Adams' paedophile brother was youth worker in Dundalk

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams at the wedding of his brother Liam (far right) poses for a picture with now deceased republican leader Joe Cahill (left) and wedding guests. Gerry Adams became aware of the allegations against his brother in 1987, before this picture was taken
Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams was under severe political pressure last night as it emerged that his brother Liam, who is wanted by the PSNI to face child sex abuse allegations, was a prominent Sinn Féin figure in Dundalk, Co Louth, in the 1990s and also worked with young people there as late as 2004.

The Sunday Tribune has learned that far from being ostracised after revelations that he'd raped his own daughter, Liam Adams was extremely active in the party.

He sought the nomination to be Sinn Féin's candidate in Co Louth for the 1997 Dáil election but was defeated by local hardline republican Owenie Hanratty.

Liam Adams very much played on his family name. The details of his activities in Dundalk appear to contradict Gerry Adams' claim that he was estranged from his brother during that period. The "estrangement" is said to have lasted until 2002-2003.

However, a republican source said: "It is impossible that Liam sought the Dáil election nomination without Gerry knowing about it – absolutely impossible. Liam was very much the Belfast leadership's man in Dundalk, pushing their line all the time."

In January 1997, more than a decade after Gerry Adams knew his brother had raped his daughter, An Phoblacht – Sinn Féin's official newspaper – carried an advertisement for a pamphlet Liam Adams wrote entitled, 'Our children, drugs, alcohol and solvents'. The paper described Adams as a voluntary youth worker with the Muirhevnamor Community Youth Project in Dundalk. A photograph of Adams appears in the Dundalk Argus newspaper in 2004 when he was a 'project worker' on a youth scheme.

Liam Adams, who is on the run from the PSNI, is facing 23 charges of raping and abusing his daughter Aine between 1978 and 1983. Aine told UTV's Insight programme that the abuse began when she was four years old.

After Aine eventually told her mother Sally in 1987 about the abuse, they went to the RUC. Sally was then separated from Liam Adams who had beaten her during their marriage. In 1987, Aine and her mother also informed Gerry Adams of the rapes. Adams said he believed his niece's allegations and hasn't changed his mind since. He said he was appalled by the abuse and has given a statement to the PSNI.

In his 1996 autobiography, Before the Dawn, Gerry Adams makes 11 references to his brother Liam with no insinuation he has done anything wrong or is ostracised by the family.

When Liam Adams married his second wife Bronagh in Dundalk, after the 1987 revelations, Gerry Adams attended the ceremony. The couple were married in the Holy Family Church and had their reception in the Castlebellingham Hotel.

Many senior republicans attended the wedding. Photographs given to the Sunday Tribune show Liam Adams in his wedding suit with Gerry Adams, his brother Paddy Adams, and veteran republican Joe Cahill.

A republican source who was at the wedding said: "There was no way that Gerry was estranged from Liam, and Liam regularly used Gerry's name about Dundalk."

Liam Adams lived in the Muirhevnamor Estate in Dundalk where many Belfast Sinn Féin and IRA members on the run had moved to. A republican source said: "He was a minor celebrity among the Belfast community in Dundalk because of who his brother was."

In 1997, Liam Adams sought the Sinn Féin Dáil nomination for Co Louth in a move by the moderates aimed at challenging hardline local republicans. However, at a selection meeting in the Imperial Hotel, it became clear that activists supported militant republican Owenie Hanratty.

Liam Adams withdrew his nomination and Hanratty became Sinn Féin's candidate. Liam Adams was also active in promoting the peace process among Dundalk republicans. He lobbied for support for the Mitchell principles of peace and non-violence.

He was a strong opponent of dissidents. In 1998, he was quoted in The New York Times condemning the Omagh bomb atrocity, saying "the whole republican family is for peace".

At one stage Liam Adams worked for youth groups in West Belfast. Gerry Adams claims he had no knowledge of this and stopped it when he found out. Gerry Adams also said that he took his niece, then aged 14, to confront her father when he heard of the allegations.

His behaviour has been criticised by those who deal with sexual abuse. Eileen Calder of the North's Rape Crisis Centre, said: "Gerry Adams has an awful lot of explaining to do about the way he handled the situation. He is so well-educated and politically astute, how did he mishandle it so badly?

Republican sources be­lieved Liam Adams was, until recently, living in Co Louth. They also believed he would now be pressurised to hand himself over to the PSNI.

By: Suzanne Breen, Northern Editor. Sunday Tribune.
December 20, 2009
http://www.tribune.ie/news/article/2009/dec/20/exclusive-adams-paedophile-brother-was-youth-worke/

A Christmas Greeting To Norman Baxter.

A Christmas Greeting To Norman Baxter.

This Christmas video greeting is for former top cop Norman Baxter of the RUC / PSNI who investigated the Omagh Bombing, it's Christmas Norman, tell the truth and no more lies.

Norman Baxter lied in his evidence to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee in November 2009 in regard to Kevin Fulton and the Omagh Bombing.

Former Omagh Bomb Top Cop Norman Baxter Has "0" Credibility

Former Omagh Bomb Top Cop Norman Baxter Has "0" Credibility.



Norman Baxter the former RUC / PSNI Omagh Bomb investigators credibility has been destroyed because he purposely lied to MP's from the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee.



Norman made up allegations about former British Army & MI5 agent Kevin Fulton, it is said "if you look at the footage from the House of Commons TV, you can clearly see Norman Baxter "slowly" thinking before he says the comments about Fulton, Baxter is clearly thinking before he makes the misleading comments (lies)



The Omagh Bomb investigations by the RUC / PSNI have been one great shambles, one of the first police officer in the investigation Eric Anderson "task force commander". has been totally discredited after he was secretly filmed by UTV asking for money to talk about another unsolved crime that he was in charge off.

Now we have Norman Baxter the who led the second slapdash investigation into the Omagh Bombing lieing to MP's into aspects of the Omagh Bombing !



There is no doubt that there is a need for a totally independent public enquiry into the Omagh Bombing, only then is there a chance that the truth might become clear.

It's Silent Night, From Omagh Bomb Cop Norman Baxter

Former Omagh bomb cop Norman Baxter has been challenged after telling lies to the British Parliament.

Former RUC / PSNI officer Norman Baxter purposely lied to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee looking into the Omagh bombing, during the trial of one suspected bomber Sean Hoey, the trial judge commented on the slapdash way the case and evidence had been gathered and presented, he commented on the "Slapdash" investigation led by Norman Baxter. Hoey was cleared of all the charges.

it is very clear that Baxter has no problems telling outright lies to Parliament, did he do the same in any court case?



Norman lied about Kevin Fulton, saying that Fulton admitted he lied over his information over the Omagh Bomb, and that Fulton made a statement through his solicitor admitting he lied. Fulton's solicitor has now confirmed that Kevin Fulton did not make any such statements.

Police pay costs in Suzanne Breen Real IRA note case

A court has told the PSNI to pay 75% of a journalist's costs after she won a case against police attempts to get her to hand over notes on the Real IRA.

Police brought the case against Suzanne Breen after she refused to hand over material on the Real IRA's claim that they murdered two soldiers in March.

In June, the High Court supported Ms Breen's claim that to hand over the notes would endanger her life.

After the case, the PSNI opposed an application from Ms Breen for costs.

Ms Breen, the northern editor of the Sunday Tribune, said she had been left with a legal bill of £25,000.

On Friday, Belfast Recorder Judge Tom Burgess said he had "no difficulty" ruling that at least some part of Ms Breen's costs in defending the application should be met by the PSNI.

He said he had tried to strike a balance between the police's duty to investigate serious crime and the reasons why a particular witness in specific circumstances may not be prepared to co-operate.

Judge Burgess noted that while there was no provision for the payment of costs for such applications, the PSNI would have been aware when they made the application that Ms Breen was arguing that her life would be at risk if she were to hand over the information.

He said he was "satisfied that the PSNI would have assessed this risk being, as they are, in a unique position to consider the general security background".

The police were also ordered to pay Ms Breen's costs for making the application.
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