Reply With Quotethe best they can do now is building car bombs
Republican dissidents join forces to form a new IRA
Do they have enough power to do anything drastic? I'm interested to know what Brits and Irish forum members think about this...
Full article here.Three of the four main dissident republican terror groups in Northern Ireland are to merge and reclaim the banner of the IRA, in an escalation of attempts to de-stabilise power sharing.
The Real IRA has been joined by Republican Action Against Drugs, which has been running a violent vigilante campaign in Derry, and a coalition of independent armed republican groups – leaving only the Continuity IRA outside the new group.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/ju...ublican-groups
the best they can do now is building car bombs
Wrong..........they are able to use other means..."Republican Action Against Drugs" that made me laugh,they call themselfs that so no-one will will take their drug dealing away from them.Originally Posted by HHH816
Its a badly written article by someone who understands little of the background or minutiae of the situation.
RAAD is a bunch of vigilantes who, whatever you think about them 6-packing drug dealers, just want to carry on playing the big man on the Creggan and Bogside. They've all been 'players' since the troubles and have neither the skills nor desire to actually do anything useful in society (like get a job and stop sponging off the state).
The majority of the PIRA vets are in ONH, with a few in RIRA. That bunch still present a low-level threat but unlike during the troubles the majority of the Catholic population abhor them. There will be more incidents like the Masserine Barracks murders and the murders/atttempted murders of Catholic PSNI officers that we've seen in the past couple of years. There will also be more recreational rioting (by both sides) during the Orange Order marches. But the bottom line is that conventional troops will not be going back on the streets and we're not going back to the bad old days of the troubles.
I'd agree with most of that Royal, RAAD is the old guards way of exerting the power they had in the Troubles, certainly this "unification" move will be perceived as a boost to their status as the move from vigilantes to "freedom fighters" or some such rubbish. Plenty of people who missed most of the troubles do not view the IRA as the evil that those who lived through the 1990s/80s/70s do, however they still don't have a wide support base nor are they actually particularly capable. ATM the security forces are doing a pretty good job at keeping a lid on it. However, I would argue that we're one high profile hit from the province reigniting - were Adams, McGuinness, Robinson or Paisley to be murdered I reckon it'd kick off big time for a couple of years but importantly the potential of a Troubles mkII is a long way away.
Teerorists will be terrorists, not matter their supposed 'cause'.
RAAD are known Republican members and sympathizers they have been "removing" any opposition drug dealers from their turf, started years ago in Dublin, where they were known as "DAD".RAAD is a bunch of vigilantes
A few years ago a 3 man I.R.A. training unit was picked up in Columbia, with trace amounts of explosives and drugs on their clothes, carrying fake Republic of Ireland passports, they subsequently skipped while out on bail and fled the country. The Columbian security services said they were teaching FARC how to build mortars, IED, etc..etc.. in exchange for large amounts of cocaine.
Obviously this would be a bit of a stretch because I doubt they have the resources and man power,but I really hope they dont try to put themselves on the map if you will by trying to pull off some operation during the Olympic Games. Just throwing that out there and I'm sure I'll get a pasting for saying it,but hey,just my thoughts....
Either way,I hope the organisation gets crushed before it can build momentum.
Derry man 'active and prominent member' of RAAD
more at:-A 26-year-old man, suspected of being an "active and prominent" member of the paramilitary organisation Republican Action Against Drugs, has appeared at Londonderry Magistrates Court.
William Martin McDonnell, from Rinmore Drive in Creggan, handed himself into Strand Road Police Station on Wednesday.
He is charged with having articles for use in acts of terrorism.
They were allegedly found in his home on 12 July.
They included a Glock hand gun, five camouflage or paramilitary-style uniforms, balaclavas, a mobile phone, a 2-way radio, four replica AK 47 rifles, a de-activated AK47 rifle, a blank firing revolver and a blank Glock hand-gun.
He was also charged with having an adapted blank firing Glock handgun with intent to endanger life and with having a firearm in suspicious circumstances.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-norther...-west-19012352
A remake of the IRA, just what the world always needed.
Even still to this day there is various places that play host to such .... scum and give them a heroes welcome... especially before/after Celtic games ... as it's the normal cover for such events ..
.. RAAD are nothing more than Drug dealers masquerading under the RAAD banner ...
No RAAD are I.R.A. terrorist drug dealers first and foremost.
Connaught Ranger
You just get the sense with these idiots that cant let go of the past, that they're a bunch of losers who feel that they've had their purpose in life taken away from them, and without the armed struggle, see their lives as empty and meaningless.
They're using boredom as an excuse to kill.
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