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Hearsay then.
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Ah, yes.. because British Government tells you the truth.
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The SAS was caught? Why would the SAS not be in that area legitimately protecting British interests as it is their remit to do? Your posts indicates a heavy presence of activists who were threatening, one would expect appropriate counter-measures.
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Yes, The SAS were in the Republic of Ireland many of times. One operation was to capture Sean McKenna at his home in the Republic of Ireland, and Sean Cleary (who the SAS shot to death) while McKenna was taken over the border and handed off to the British Army claiming he was captured in Northern Ireland. Dublin Court fined 8 SAS members for a 100 pounds for firearm offenses.
One does not have a right to violate International Law. The Republic of Ireland is not British, They had to ask for permission to set foot in the Republic of Ireland and they did not. That is an Act of War by International Law. A Nation State can not go after an NGO within the border of another State without clearly consistent or clear evidence that the State is proving help to the NGO.
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As to crossing the border, there are more controls on the border than the military. You implicate cross border controls like Immigration and Customs & Excise - departments which are not about to roll over to the military without clearing it through express written authority and even less likely to consider doing this without securing bulletproof, traceable assurance that there will be no repercussions for them.
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Oh yes, because a person from Scotland working for ICE is really sitting on the border between ROI and the UK. Get real ( it was more like Black Watch), Bessbrook Mill was an Army outpost out of the dozens which sat in heavily republican area along the border. It wasn't cleared so some Custom Agent could do their job. It was never about Collecting, Exercising or anything of that nature along the border. It was there to keep Republicans in a choke hold.
Wanna know how I know this? I can drive the M1 from Dublin right up to the border and get on the A1 and not even get checked on my way to Belfast. Or I could take the M1 get on R177 and take a right and go right up to Forkhill (another British Army base location during this time) and not get checked 1 time. Or I can just get on a boat in Dublin and sail up to any coast town and not get checked.
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This would leave a fair trail for any investigative journalist, you would expect it to appear in public by this time. Has it?
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LMAO, This stuff happen in the 70s and 80s.. and the British Government lost in European Human Rights Court several times over these things.
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