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ALLINEORATIONCOMTAIINEL
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIEIED
DATED4-12-2018BY
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IRA: Raid
(Indicate page,name of
is revenge
newspaper,city and state.)
for Devlin
Tynan, Northem Ireland (Combined
Sir Norman
James
Dispatches)--Authorities said yester.
Stronge
Stronge
day'that·the assassinations ofPiotes
tantpoiitician SirNorman Stronge and
speakerof theNorthern Irelandparlia
his son, James, was *eye-for-eye retali-
ment,and his 48-year-old son Wednes-
ation for the attempted murders of
day night.
Catholic civilrightsleaderBemadette
Devlin McAliskey and her husband,.
Minutes before eight terrorists
blasted down the solid oak door of the
Michacl.
17th century castle, Tynan Abbey, in
The Provisional wing of the predo-
southArmaghnear theborderwiththe
minantly Catholic IRA boasted in
IrishRepublic,police said SirNorman
statementissuedbytheRepublican
fired a distress flare from the chimney
News Bureau in Dublin that they.had
ofhis library to alertsecurity forces.
killed theStronges.
The guerrillas dragged Sir Norman
.Protestant militants immediately
andhis.son from the house and shot
trgedretalfation.
The iRA said the attack on the
them'onthelawn.Theraldersthenset
off threebombs thatguttedthe 230
Stronges represented "real departure”
year-old mansion andfledin two cars
from previous attacks and signaled a
after a 20minute battle with a police
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new policy"to take reprisals for the
patrol and militaryhelicopter.
activities of loyalist paramilitartes.'
Date:
*This deliberate attack on the sym-
POLICE,TROOPS and Britisharmy
Edition:
Ed.tion
bois of hated unionism was a direct
helicopters were scouring the coun-
Motnina
tryside in search of the gunmen..
reprisal for a whole series of loyalist
Sir Norman, a leader of the Protes.
mN
assassinations and murder attacks on
tant majority. was speaker of the
nationalist people,"the IRA said.
Title:
NorthernIrelandparliamentfrom1945
Gcorac ifarrison
THREE PROTESTANTS have been to 1969, when he gave up his seat
charged with the attempted murders of ' because of his age and was succeeded
the McAliskeys, who were shot re byhis son.
Characte
peatedly at point-blank range by gun-
Britain dissolved the Protestant.
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men‘who burst into thefr farmhouse.dominated pariiament in 1972 ln re
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using a sledgehammerlast Friday.The
sponse to four years of violence be
Classification:
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McAliskeys arerecovering.
tween Protestants and Catholics. The
Submitting Office:
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Authoritiessaid the terroristsex-
British now govern the six northern
ecuted Sir Norman, 86, a former Irish provinces from London.
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