{"id":162507,"date":"2015-06-28T23:33:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T23:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=162507"},"modified":"2015-06-28T23:33:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T23:33:39","slug":"mi5s-killing-spree-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mi5s-killing-spree-northern-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"MI5\u2019s Killing Spree in Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Derry, Northern Ireland.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCameron went completely off script at that point and he said \u2018Look, the last administration couldn\u2019t deliver an inquiry in your husband\u2019s case and neither can we.\u2019\u201d Asked why by Jane Winter of British Irish Rights Watch, Mr.David \u00a0Cameron, according to Ms. Winter, replied: \u201cBecause there are people all around this place who won\u2019t let it happen.\u201d She recalled him twirling his hand in the air at \u201cpeople all around this place.\u201d \u201cThis place\u201d was 10, Downing Street. The occasion was a meeting in October 2011 between the prime minister and members of the family of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane, murdered by the Loyalist paramilitary outfit the UDA in 1989, with, as a series of media probes has established and the British government no longer denies \u2014 the active involvement of a secret British army unit and of the \u201csecurity service\u201d, MI5.<\/p>\n<p>Winter had accompanied the family to London. They had travelled at the invitation of the Northern Ireland Office, believing\/hoping that Cameron was to tell them face-to-face that he had given the go-ahead for the public inquiry into the killing promised by Tony Blair a decade previously. SDLP MP Mark Durkan says that Blair have him \u201can unambiguous commitment\u201d to a public inquiry during talks at Weston Park in July 2001. The question which immediately arises is: who around Downing Street would have had the clout to forbid a prime minister from following a particular course? Senior civil servants? Hardly. Sir Humphrey doesn\u2019t deliver instructions but rather offers advice. But MI5 fits the bill. It is difficult to think of any other group which does. If this be the truth of it, Cameron was telling Ms. Finucane that an organisation which both were aware had played a key role in the murder of her husband was refusing to contemplate a public inquiry into the crime and that he had no choice but to comply. (John Ware\u2019s 2002 BBC investigation had exposed MI5\u2019s role in facilitating certainly scores and possibly as many as 200 sectarian murders of Catholics.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2015\/06\/26\/mi5s-killing-spree-in-northern-island\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=mi5s-killing-spree-in-northern-island\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derry, Northern Ireland. \u201cCameron went completely off script at that point and he said \u2018Look, the last administration couldn\u2019t deliver an inquiry in your husband\u2019s case and neither can we.\u2019\u201d Asked why by Jane Winter of British Irish Rights Watch, Mr.David \u00a0Cameron, according to Ms. Winter, replied: \u201cBecause there are people all around this place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-162507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}