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Conflict, 1969-98 (London 2003) p. 57

26 Peter Taylor, Provos. The IRA & Sinn Fein (London 1997) pp. 163ff.

27 Martin Dillon, The Shankill Butchers. A Case Study in Mass Murder (London 1989) is gruesomely definitive

28 Eamon Collins, Killing Rage (London 1997) pp. 98ff.

29 Liam Clarke and Kathryn Johnston, Martin McGuinness. From Guns to Government (London 2003) p. 41

30 J. J. Barrett, Martin Ferris. Man of Kerry (Dingle, Co. Kerry 2006) pp. 44-5

31 Sean O’Callaghan, The Informer (London 1998) p. 55. I am grateful to Sean O’Callaghan for many memorable conversations about terrorism

32 Toby Harnden, ‘Bandit Country’. The IRA & South Armagh (London 1999) pp. 36ff.

33 For examples see Martin Dillon, God and the Gun. The Church and Irish Terrorism (London 1997)

34 See the insightful discussion of Church politics in Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA pp. 228ff.

35 Taylor, Provos p. 267

36 See Bruce Hoffman ‘All You Need is Love: How the Terrorists Stopped Terrorism’ Atlantic Monthly December 2001 pp. 1-4

37 Richard English, Armed Struggle. The History of the IRA (London 2003) p. 123

38 Maxwell Taylor and Ethel Quayle, Terrorist Lives (London 1994) pp. 28-34

39 See the important book by Kevin Toolis, Rebel Hearts. Journeys within the IRA’s Soul (London 1995) p. 288

40 David Lister and Hugh Jordan, Mad Dog. The Rise and Fall of Johnny Adair and ‘C Company’ (Edinburgh 2007) p. 37

41 Ibid., pp. 100-101

42 Ibid., p. 140

43 Andrew Silke, ‘Rebel’s Dilemma: The Changing Relationship between the IRA, Sinn Fein, and Paramilitary Vigilantism in Northern Ireland’ Terrorism and Political Violence (1999) 11, p. 62

44 Roy Mason, Paying the Price (London 1999) p. 163

45 Mark Urban, Big Boys’ Rules. The Secret Struggle against the IRA (London 1992) pp. 69-78 for an insightful discussion of the army and the law

46 Martin Ingram and Greg Harkin, Stakeknife. Britain’s Secret Agents in Ireland (Dublin 2004) pp. 6off. for Scappaticci’s background and character by one of his former handlers

47 Peter Taylor, Brits. The War against the IRA (London 2001) pp. 288-96

48 Taylor, Provos pp. 259-65

49 Bew, Ireland p. 532

50 Neumann, Britain’s Long War p. 157

51 McKittrick et al., Lost Lives pp. 1393-5

52 Brian Graham, ‘The Past in the Present: The Shaping of Identity in Loyalist Ulster’ Terrorism and Political Violence (2004) 16, pp. 12-14

53 For the grim details see Chris Ryder and Vincent Kearney, Drumcree. The Orange Order’s Last Stand (London 2002)

54 For this see Dean Godson’s excellent Himself Alone. David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism (London 2006)

55 Kate Kray, Hard Bastards (London 2002) pp. 35-48 and Johnny Adair, Mad Dog (London 2007) p. 250

56 See Keith Maguire, ‘Fraud, Extortion and Racketeering: The Black Economy in Northern Ireland’ Crime, Law and Social Change (1993) 20, pp. 273-92

57 Rachel Monaghan, ‘“An Imperfect Peace”: Paramilitary “Punishments” in Northern Ireland’ Terrorism and Political Violence (2004) 16, p. 444

58 ‘IRA plc Turns Terror into the Biggest Crime Gang in Europe’ The Times 25 February 2005. Obviously since these people are skilful, there may be further activities not mentioned here, some of which - involving front businesses on the UK mainland - are not given in great detail for legal reasons

59 Harnden, ‘Bandit Country’ pp. 451ff.

60 Edna Leahy, ‘Farc Rebel “Admits IRA Trained Him”’ The Times 15 May 2005

61 Michael Burleigh, ‘Sinister Mutations’ Spectator 18 February 2006 is based on interviews with serving PSNI officers regarding paramilitary criminality

62 For these statistics see the appendix in McKittrick et al., Lost Lives pp. 1525ff.

Chapter 8: World Rage: Islamist Terrorism

1 Gilles Kepel, The Revenge of God. The Resurgence of Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the Modern World (University Park, Pennsylvania 1994) is an excellent comparative study of the resurgence of the three Abrahamic faiths from the mid-1970s

2 Patrick Clawson and Michael Rubin, Eternal Iran. Continuity and Chaos (London

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