The F.R.U - Licensed to Kill | Remastered | The Troubles
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- An exceptional documentary detailing our troubled past in relation to the FRU handling itself within the conflict.
The state really did murder its own citizens....
Should we as a collective society allow the government to hide this?
Without taking sides in our conflict, on a moral , transparent note , should we allow the state to murder and go unchallenged?
Put yourself in the daughter, mother, sons shoes knowing their family member was murdered on the orders of the state in which they were a citizen with rights like everyone else.
Would you not want to know the truth?
The legacy of the past should be put into the hands of the people, not politicians. I wouldn't want any political party to get a moral high ground or do well in some elections over these issues.
We all just want the truth of what happened and if a wrong was done by whom was this ordered by and for what reason.
We all just want the truth, some will want justice also but I would take truth over justice this far down the road than anything else.
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Your channel is like a treasure trove of Irelands recent history, it’s absolutely beyond belief what went on up here. Thank you for sharing these.
Not a night goes by when there's not something to watch on this channel. Fair play to you great channel
Thanks Melissa, I might slow down a little - nah too much to upload! :)
You have got probably the best archive of film and video on the troubles anywhere,.. for all those affected living or not,.. and those wanting to learn what happened in the past,.. its a awesome reference ,.. great work and foresight my friend 👍👍💯
Hopefully some are downloading them so they are always knocking around for future generations :)
@@ATroubledLand some serious terrabytes for this lot of history, hopefully those who just watch will, take a positive message from them that we should avoid the violence at all costs,.. unfortunately Ukrainian people where given no such choice,.. from putin ehh take care brother great work 👍👍
@@cooltools007 Big time - my pc crashed a few days ago. I lost a lot of apps including editing software - thankfully no files but I do have everything thus far on disc.
Ukraine..... I always wanted to see Russia, not so much anymore :/
Happy easter mate :)
Sadly it is going to have a time limit as the British government love a good cover up and expect their citizens to maintain an amnesiac state about Northern Ireland. Even more sadly their strategy tends to work. I doubt many English people have ever seen these documentaries.
Demonstrates perfectly why this is known as The Dirty War. Nobody no matter what side, comes out of this conflict clean. Brilliant upload. Brilliant channel. 👍
This is brilliant journalism and well done for showing these
Well said 👏
Int milk brilliant as well though 😂😂
I've always called it 'the dirty little war that never was' .... never acknowledged as warfare, just as 'the troubles'.....
The state should come out and say yes, we will act to protect the country at all costs. Big Boys Games, Big Boys Rules.
Between The Lines.
Hi my friend.thanks for making such a channel with historical content.
I’m watching my way through them very interesting great work
Once again a brilliant documentary raising my blood pressure...
Haha!
Thanx!
Johan my friend - much respect to you :)
Take my channel in small doses - it is very overwhelming sometimes!
Thank you for getting this into the light of day.
You're welcome :)
Fantastic channel, thank you so much for sharing, and putting in so much work. Brilliant content, very deep, emotional but very true.
Thanks for watching Shelly :)
Another great video, thanks very much
Glad you enjoyed it Gertroot :)
Best 4 years of my life. ‘Fishers of men’
Thank you for the channel! Can you provide more context about your sources, such as where and when and by who it was originally aired? It would make it easier to cite.
I love your channel it’s really good
Mrs Hamill seem a good woman with lovely children.
I hope they found happiness
During that period the FRU had only one female informant handler.
Name of Margaret but known as “Mags”.
She was an Army sergeant and wondering what ever happened to her?
Google search didn’t assist much.
You fight fire with fire(!!!
Excellent content
Evil judiciary 👩⚖️
I would like to hear the words of Mrs Hamill but the loud “background” music drowns her words out
I agree. I'll condem the killing of any innocent people from loyalists or nationalists. But all u get is outright denial from the IRA or they just say that the British were an aggressive occupying power which technically they are lol. I'm aware of the history. But u don't hear about the150 RUC guys that were killed, I think alot of them were just doin there job. And what about all the casualties in the regular army who were trying to restore order an d were also just doin there jobs, all these people had fathers and mothers too. I'm well aware what the British were doing lol. They helped write the book on that kind of warfare people but the IRA wanted a war. The English gave them one.... dont start something u won't finish
And I'm seriously sorry about all the innocent people who were killed
Both sides were as bad as each other
@@mickdunne981 both sides are guilty as sin... but that was war and a particularly brutal one. The ira doesn't get to hide behind british law because it's convenient for them to do so they wanted a war they got one.. and the British couldn't win the war if they stayed within the law, they played dirty znd got away with it I would of pulled the same tactics... u can't just let the ira blow up everything in sight
Watching in April 2023, and comparing the facts within with the celebratory accolades of the GFA 25th anniversary. I continue to pray these families, victims, and all Ireland receive justice. The other thought that I cannot avoid is to wonder how today, the people and their SF, having lived and died under these corrupt, ruthless circumstances, can unequivocally and so publicly support the bloodthirsty regimes of Hamas, Fatah and PLO that employ these very same tactics and extrajudicial murders against its own people, as well as Israelis and Arabs alike? It makes no sense; the Republicans should and do know better. Fix this. And know and live in peace. Thank you.
Tom clueless king what a joke he was.....
@@Aindriuh He once said " the ira are a diminished force" ....less than 48 hours later half dozen soldiers killed...that was his fault..
That's why he was jogged 'over the water'....halfwit city; " i say old chap; you a taig or a prod...?"
@@dominicseanmccann6300 I'm a " taig"
@@michaelahern6821 well, so am i, apparently!
@@dominicseanmccann6300 Even prods thought Tom wasn't much good.....
Have you any of the peter tailor provo documentaries?
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Tom King must have thought wwe all came down in the last shower.
I struggled to hear dialogue because of the awful, unnecessary background music. Had to give up watching.
The FRU (force research unit )was a unit of the UDR ( local NI staff mainly from the Loyalist community working in plain clothes not as the regular Army in uniform) they where used to facilitate murder through the UDA and UVF gangs by giving them intelligence etc. ( and some say weaponry ) and ensuring the attackers had a free run during the attacks. It was known at the time they were disliked by the RUC Special Branch and indeed the regular Army from HQNI. No one was quite sure where their commander Col Gordon Kerr got his authority from. As a fall back if anything went wrong and their practical role in murder became exposed, as it did with the Stevens enquiry. the Unit had an 'informer handling' smoke screen to fall back on e.g. the Brian Nelson 'fog'. So involved were the FRU in murders that after the Stevens enquiry the Chief Constable of the day Sir Hugh Orde wanted to arrest the Army GOC in N Ireland . I'm sure the GOC knew little of Kerr's operations it is more than probable the unit was run directly by MI5 who take their orders from the Cabinet Office (strangely enough Tony Blair has put those cabinet papers beyond reach for 80 years ) . Telling after the FRU was disbanded Col Gordon Kerr was made a Brigadier with an MI6 role located in China.
Absolute bollox, undoubtedly the UDR was utilised by FRU but it was much further up the food chain. FRU was more aligned to a power base in Whitlehall and Millbank than any agency within the province.
MRF were
Totally wrong
As others have already said.. absolute balls! FRU was most definately not staffed by anyone from Northern Ireland for the simple reason MI5, 14th Intel, The Shed @ Aldergrove (if you know you know) viewed most local Army personel as a security risk regardless of where they were originally from. The rumour at the time (doubt that it actuallly happed) was that the PIRA was actually sending volunteers to join the UDR to gather intel on the regiment itself and any other info they could get their hands on. I know of several soldiers that served in Northern Ireland in the 80s and 90s with various regiments that kept the UDR at arms length due to these rumours and I also know many ex UDR men who hated the Loyalist paramilitaries as much as the Nationalists / Republicans and wanted to serve and protect their country the right way who were pulled in for questioning and security checks while being totally innocent and unrelated to any wrong doing such as paramilitary involvement . Not saying there wasn't Loyalist killers in the UDR during the Troubles as there was but nothing to do with the FRU.. they were totally a law onto themselves controlled at high level locally and by London and staffed with not staffed by UDA / UVF men under the guise of being UDR.
They were not loyalists lol they were army but not SFs just army using weapons that loyalists would kill with so the finger wouldn't be pointed at the army.Where the loyalists come in is with special branch and brian nelson giving him files on known republicans giving them weapons also .Only UDR involvement was in the early to mid 70 based in mid Ulster the Glenane gang killers and the Miami showband killers .
1 Island 1 Nation
Is it aye
The sound quality of this vid is appalling. Most of the interviews are very difficult to understand
Notarantino(sp) killing was army trying to save their own ira agent, stakeknife scapaticci (sp).
So told their other agent , BR, no kill this guy instead.
A guy who hadn't been involved for 25 years.
Idk how stake knife can look himself in the mirror, all he has done and yet he is living in protection still I believe
I am American 🇺🇸 and I applaud any group of people who want to be free from an oppressive regime.
Bin laden would be proud 😉
Youd better clap for the vietcong then forcing you Americans out.
I can presume that you are not an Evangelical nutcracker. Americans in general do support nations who are under the suppression of dictators etc. With the one exception, Israel. For some strange reason they fail to see the suppression and subjugation of six million Palestinians, who are targeted by the IDF on a regular basis. The Israel right wing call it "mowing the grass" Even military operations like "cast lead" where over fourteen hundred innocent civilians were murdered in Gaza over a three week period fails to register in the collective consciences of the people in the USA
That's why as a proud irish man I respect the afghani and iraqi people, u guys fucked up
Hypocrisy of the USA who funded terrorists in Ireland with noraid for years. Then as soon as it happens to them don't like it and they go to war on terror. DUH
You fight fire with fire.
No you fight fire with water, or earth if you have too. Fighting fire with fire just leaves everyone burned.
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That's tories for you rotten to the core
Labour did the same
@@stephenholmes1036 There just red tories no Labour Party now
I don't blame the people who were compromised say 50 % were vulnerable people . Brits were trying and did have the IRA killing each other. Special branch used to use school exams to see who was "slow" autistic spectrum that sort horrible shxt i thought only happened in pre mandela south Africa
I had a copy of a book called the pegasus files it's about sas hit squads driving in to catholic and protestant areas and shooting innocent people to cause sectarian strife they were also murdering volunteers from the Republic and burying them in a mass grave I've tried to find another copy of this book and can't it was written by an ex sas man who was involved in the killing he even pointed out mass graves
Was that unit called MRF do you remember?
@@ATroubledLand they had quite a few ,mrf ,fru , etc then after a few of their antics where getting spotted they just colluded with the loyalist paramilitaries who before collusion has been picking up drunks and college kids and mutilating them before murdering them , these fru /mrf directed them to anyone they wanted killed ,it was common knowledge , as far back as the laundry van in twinbrook etc ,that the mrf found it more difficult to blend in so turned to the other scumbags .
@@TheNinyo77 I can't find anything on here by that name though it's all spys and espionage , all drama though.
Maybe it's called something else but with Pegasus within it - i'll keep looking for you.
@@ATroubledLand they where called the SRU , But changed name in 1972 , driving around catholic areas shooting anyone they chose too , women ,men etc didn't matter too them , they where formed to fight just one side of the community ,the side that was attacked first !!!! 39th infantry group ,that's who mrf was spawned from .
@@ATroubledLand it was baught out in the eighties when Thatcher was in power so it was probably suppressed I've tried to find it my self but it was definitely called the pegasus files and there mo was to shoot innocent people on both sides as well as spy and catch volunteers for execution there was a section of photographs of one of the SAS pointing to a grave with about so he said 30 people he all so said they seemed to be drugged and this came from the top of the British army
dived and concur.Thats what the British do.From day one.
Divide and conquer
@@NYCfrankie dived in the pool and agreed he said lol
@@jackietreehorn5561 i literally just LOL'd reading that
@@NYCfrankie I'm here to please.....sure it's hard to beat a bitta jesting
@@NYCfrankie Dyslexia LURES KO
The state big Gerry Knows come out you Black And Tans london bubble
Jane Winter speaks with great truth.
how can i donate this channel some money?
15.24 (quote) MANIFESTLY GUILTY, how can anyone be manifestly guilty without a trial in open court without a judge of good standing and jury. we in N. Ireland are and always will be second class citizens in UK.