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Orde: Seized guns destined for Ireland enough to start war
Saturday, 6 September 2008
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Northern Ireland's Chief Constable has claimed a massive arsenal of weapons and ammunition destined for criminal gangs in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic was large enough to start a war.
Sir Hugh Orde also said that the international operation has foiled murders, kidnappings and other violent crimes.
A total of 230 guns, 10,000 rounds of ammunition, and thousands of euro in cash and drugs have been seized.
Four men were arrested; one of them has since appeared in court charged with drug offences.
Two others have since been released without charge, and the fourth remains in garda custody.
In Holland, three men and a woman remain in custody in connection with the same investigation.
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Joe, surely the main point to be made here is that these weapons have been taken out of the hands of criminals who could have used them to kill you or any other innocent citizen of this country?
I really think the security forves should be congratualted on this massive haul. A lot of work must have gone into watching these gangsters and getting the timing of the raids right.
Finally Joe, if you had read the story properly, you would realise that it was not just the PSNI, but also the Gardi and other European police forces who were involved in this triumph of law over disorder!
Sometimes people here become so obsessed with events on this tiny little island that sits on the western shores of Europe, that they forget there is a great big world out there and that we are only a VERY small opart of it.
Posted by Centaur | 07.09.08, 17:48 GMT
First of all, it is great news that these arms have been confiscated. We will never know for sure how many lives have been spared because of this good police work.
However, once again we have Mr. Orde waxing dramatic. Why does the so-called chief peace officer need to drag out the word WAR in a part of the world where tension and distrust seems always prevalent among the various groups? I really believe that this man not happy in N.Ireland and, is also so far over his head in this job that it isn't funny.
A LEADER is needed in this job, no matter what his or her religious affiliation is.
Posted by Edward | 06.09.08, 18:02 GMT
Yes Joe, but perhaps there remains at the upper echelons of the PSNI a vestige of the old RUC/MI5/MI6 command and control, unseen and unseeable but yet all powerful and controlling, and perhaps these same shadows who pull the strings in Ulster still see the UDA as a kind of useful auxillary or reserve police force in their Doomsday Scenario planning
Stranger things have happened in Ulster
Posted by Mr Conspiracy | 06.09.08, 15:49 GMT
Because their hands are tied by the policies of the assembly.....a policy endorsed republicans.
Posted by Dave | 06.09.08, 15:38 GMT
It’s all nice and tidy, Orde telling us about these weapons, but the bigger question is why is the RUC/PSNI not scooping the massive arsenals of weapons and ammunition from loyalists, which the RUC/PSNI admitted recently to knowing exactly where they are?
Posted by Joe Murray | 06.09.08, 13:48 GMT