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Free Derry: The IRA Drug War - YouTube
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last month over a period of three days
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letter bombs were sent to over nine army
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recruitment centers across the south of
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the UK British security forces claimed
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the bombs were sent from postal centres
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in Londonderry in Northern Ireland the
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coded message sent to a Northern Irish
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newspaper announced the new IRA were
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behind the attacks and also claimed that
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the attacks would continue when and
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where the IRA saw fit these are the
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first attacks on the British mainland by
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the IRA and it's new guys last summer
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Vice went to Derry to meet dissident
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republicans and find out about their war
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on drugs while we were there we were
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told to expect attacks on the British
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mainland and now they're happening in
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2012 Real IRA leader Allan Ryan was
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executed outside his home in Dublin
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according to the press he had been set
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up and murdered by drug gangs
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Ryan had become the most high-profile
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casualty in the fight between dissident
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republicans and warring gangs but he
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wasn't going to be the last
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it's pretty strange in the middle of
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this suburban part Dublin it's basically
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a military March right now must be a
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couple of hundred people here I don't
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think it's just quite a bigger turnout
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as they wanted but it's certainly
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nothing I've ever seen before so tell me
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what happened the day that Alan was shot
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you were with him right you'd like to
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walk on the area can use open about like
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seeing people and we were walking down
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towards another fellows house and as we
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were walking there gunmen ambushed them
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from behind the fire number shots he
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killed Alan he hit iron in the leg I
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managed to run and jump on the car and
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then facing it all off Bush afterwards
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it's just everything was kind of crazy
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huh
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why would they terrify develop because
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he was trying to fight against the drug
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dealers I use the layer of a fairly
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effective group of men that were
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targeting and executing drug dealers and
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had them on the run from the locks fish
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and I think that's not seems to be the
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reasoning this targeted anyways was
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because he was shattering their
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organizations and it was only a matter
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of time
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I'd say before he would a wipe them out
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the situation is so tense the one year
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on local hoods broke into the cemetery
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and to face thalam Ryan's grave the Real
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IRA broke away from the IRA in the 90s
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rejecting the peace process and seeking
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to continue the war with Britain they
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are a small but deadly force at the
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heart of the drugs whereas Londonderry
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or Derry a city so divided by
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sectarianism that it goes by two names
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the city is the center of Republican
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militants and now sixteen years after
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the Good Friday Agreement that
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supposedly brought peace to the country
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the IRA gaining influence all over again
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another armed group Republican action
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against drugs or rad have been fighting
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a war on drugs shooting anyone perceived
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to be involved in dealing hundreds of
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young men have been threatened sent into
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exile or shot by paramilitaries after
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the murder of Alan Ryan it was announced
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that rod and the Real IRA would merge
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under the simple name the IRA we went to
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meet dairies most influential Republican
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dissident Gary Donnelly a member of the
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32 counties sovereignty movement who has
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been accused of being the driving force
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behind the Real IRA a charge he denies
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Gary's been repeatedly jailed and has
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serious charges for his links to
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militant Republicans but for him that's
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all part of the security services
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efforts to undermine his organization do
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you think this is encouraging a rise in
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hatred of the state and possibly
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encouraging a rise of terrorism against
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the state well you know when you talk
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about terrorism what is terrorism you
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know people here don't you know the
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people here who you would accuse of
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being terrorists are members of this
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community they live in this community
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they're lucky they work in this
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community they socialize the kids go to
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school in this community you're not some
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type of al Qaeda terrorists that live in
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the mountains or caves and come in here
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and carry out you know atrocities and go
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back these are people who live and
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socialize in these areas often the large
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section this community would support
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these people and be their eyes and ears
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and support this lab does the reality no
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police officers live in these areas
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they're not part of our community and
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for them to community this community
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they have to travel in convoy in heavily
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armored Land Rovers they hope to wear
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all of her clothing they're very intense
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police vans what do you think would
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happen if police did just kind of stroll
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through this area as they might in
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England I would thought they would get
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out I think they were killed there's
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been some quite severe punishment of
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people involved in dealing drugs
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organizations right rather than things
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like that
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yeah in the absence of a normal police
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and service then people will go to
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whoever will help them the police turned
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the blame a to draw
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Dylan for a number of reasons and so
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someone comes and says I've got this
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problem this guy's selling drugs in my
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state people then approach him and say
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let me stop it yeah and if he continues
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doing it if he continues then if you
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know some people will go to the police
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the police don't feel weird they'll call
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the Republicans if he can't be reasoned
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we there's no option do you know this
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man to continue poison in your community
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already take action to the armed people
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who kind of hand out the punch when a
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from within the community live in these
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streets their kids go to school these
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streets a part and parcel of this
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community so they're still our arms
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throughout this community there's no
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doubt there's armed stay at this
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community and right there it does
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conflict you know I'd say there's good
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chances you probably have passed
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IRA people in this community they're
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probably aware that your stand here no
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you know they could even be watching us
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see what's going on can you see us
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returning to a time when there are IRA
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attacks within England why not that
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would be you know a strategic target you
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know what be a high-profile target you
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know why wouldn't there be it's England
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that's occupying Ireland this new
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Republican coalition has support from
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local gangs such as the kids in the
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Bogside Republican youth how do you and
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why is it that you're fighting against
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the police harassing bastard do any of
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the older Republicans ever kind of tell
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you guys aside and say you know what
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this isn't your fight what are they
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suppose to do
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we should go welcome them we're proud
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open
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what Republican groups do you support
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what about the IRA hello Gary Dahl
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joined the yellow sugar around the
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thirty future although I orientation
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does that make you feel kind of
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confident that there's like everyone's
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unified as well as continuing the war
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with the British the Republicans are now
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dealing with the drug dealers with
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extreme violence with reported
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kneecapping zand executions acting as a
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go-between for the paramilitaries of
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potential drug dealing victims is the
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Rosemount Resource Center run by Tommy
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McCourt a well-known Republican
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socialist who himself has little
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sympathy for the men being shot by the
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IRA if someone has tells us that there
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is a threat and we believe it's a real
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threat we believe it's our unity past I
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want 90% of the time at least or more
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that usually results in some kind of an
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agreement where the violence doesn't
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take place can you remember the last
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time violence did take place see four
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weeks ago I think there was a couple of
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young people it was more of an
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anti-social behaviour she or at least a
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they were there was a conflict emerging
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on the streets their names had come
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forward as you know these guys needed
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stopler carry on and then Messi's were
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getting passed back and forward but at a
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little the particular behavior that was
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engaged and its continued and this group
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then said that they were not prepared to
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negotiate any further they were just
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going to deal with it and the next thing
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we knew these two young men were both
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shot in the legs
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after speaking with Tommy we were put in
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contact with a man who was once one of
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the biggest dealers in Derry although
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his life is no longer under threat he
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still refused to have his face built
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when I go to present had read it one
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time per ad and they were to be honest
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they were quite fair
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they gave me two chances before and I
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her up and went back to the unit
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was doing and how did they give you the
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chances to someone coming knocking your
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door
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somebody somebody comment says that my
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life was in danger and I went they said
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Republicans and more or less said that
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or knocking ahead whatever an end the
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threats were sorted but after way I just
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got bored and you know me musta Malayan
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just started it all over again
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they gave me a couple of chances I
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it up do you think that the way
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that the IRA or rad deal with drug
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dealers is harsh
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no don't fair I believe not because my
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son's not a teenager 16 I'm very very
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very close to him he was in all reason
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why I'd hurt my friend cuz I couldn't
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spend any time him I'm never getting an
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aura chance you know they they were they
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were gonna kill me and the same guy that
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got my dear friend left it and told me
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that the threat was left it at the same
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boy I saw him told me is you know you're
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lucky to be alive
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it's just two teams i sat with grips a
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man plotting planning a murder and a man
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works and chills down my spine so
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Melanie you know your fears and the same
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person since shaking your hand the only
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fair played if you turn in your late
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friend and so do you think that the the
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tactics of of these kind of punishment
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shootings it work I stopped the drug
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dealer there but does it work in the
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area as a whole Ohio has worked all
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right
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they didn't do that then this time would
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be a wash we access a table sort of for
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me rat poison I mean how many kids have
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today her in the hospital before
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shouldn't somebody doesn't seem harsh
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there's methadone I'm the grass being
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aware does you've got all these
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youngsters run run come on you say you
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know what point is and also enough so
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well what does Domino's trying I don't
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disagree with you know
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I wouldn't like to be a drug dealer in
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his neighborhood one little pet it
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sounds terrifying
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shooting drug dealers is one thing and
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kind of comes with the territory but
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we'd heard about a guy in the city who'd
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been shot for selling legal highs in his
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bong shop yeah he's not gonna talk to us
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he's terrified apparently he was sent a
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death threat last year for speaking on
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the radio these rad guys seem to control
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this place is a real and a mafioso
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situation everyone's scared of them
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and it's understandable he kept on
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saying they just pick up the phone and
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I'll be shot it's not worth my while to
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talk to you it's not worth my while he's
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visibly shaking while he's doing it I
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guess once you've had your legs shine
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you're gonna be pretty nervous daily not
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getting around if I was him I wouldn't
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talk to apply though
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so on our way to me a woman called Donna
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Smith last year her son Andrew was
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executed by rat have since joined the
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IRA they claimed that Andrew was dealing
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drugs but Donna maintains that of never
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any evidence to support that claim
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last year I found he was at home with
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his girlfriend and three masked men come
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to his door and they couldn't get on the
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door so they fired shots through the
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window I don't know shots and Andrews
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kills they doesn't know who it was
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neither actually I think could have been
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any brother it was on I know but under
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is why we're at sending death threats to
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and in his friends they surround it was
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a spike major major drug dealer
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you know Andrews lifestyle did not
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warrant if anybody drug dealer because
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most of the time I had a give him money
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do you suspect that the people who
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killed Andrew from this community oh
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they are do you know who they were I
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know I know
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an old members arrived that's what it
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but I can't pump point and say I was
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here he you know but I know I know
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Radley everybody knows he was unwrapped
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there seems to be a tradition some
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parents actually take the children to
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ride to be shot in order to save them
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from being executed can you imagine what
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it's like to be no positioning I can't
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compromise him at all I'm for a parent
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to have to take a child of a shot yes
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I don't know IFIF don't believe it on to
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me you know if you had one thing to say
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to the people calling themselves the IRA
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what would it be
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just please please tell us why why
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they're better than murder tumblr why
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used on that um for not to do it again
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nobody ever ever wanted family sitting
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the way we're sitting today you know we
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don't mouthing wrong be sitting I guess
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it's just everydays I'm a probably not
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here no pharmanex a bit wrong for us we
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headed back to Craigan to meet the next
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generation of young Republicans these
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kids believe the fight through United
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Island should continue however they
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weren't even born when the peace process
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began they're members of the Allen Ryan
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memorial band set up in honor of the
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murdered Dublin Real IRA leader who they
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views a working-class era when Allen
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Ryan was killed in Dublin what was the
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reaction in Derry that's before that
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actually happens they have first
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republican the be killed by drug dealers
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and a long time
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it was a classroom do you support the
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paramilitary punishments of drug dealers
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I don't see a problem errors police
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stole them to you on and then we go to
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weekend you see people can a high on
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drugs drink people standard street
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corners young people its second DC day
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needs help and we need a rehabilitation
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center we need help for drug addicts
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patty has stopped and searched by the
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police nearly every day they say they're
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looking for munitions and every time he
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stopped he's given one of these cards
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their actions almost seem
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counterproductive as they make young
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republicans like patty even more
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alienated from the political mainstream
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harlan Scotland our ways and be headline
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news Oliver but push back the north I
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don't oh that's just name ones or
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anything we get away that meets or
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bloodthirsty savages welcome for Chinese
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non-violence IRA thyroid all they want
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to do shoot and kill people reality oh
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that's gonna be far from the truth
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and I arrays have United I don't look
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can I trying to achieve it and alongside
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that help no to communities as they've
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done throughout the past 40 years the
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strategy of locking up senior figures of
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the Neo IRA has decimated them in the
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short term yet they managed to continue
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carrying out potentially legal threats
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16 years on from the peace process it
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seems you don't need the British Army on
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the streets of Northern Ireland for
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these groups to draw more recruits
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potentially fueling the conflict for
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generations to come
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the Neo IRA we've been told still has a
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force of a thousand young men behind it
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who will continue their low-level
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insurgency outwardly against a British
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state and inwardly in their own warned
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drugs
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