“The Libyans supplied 1,450 Kalashnikov automatic rifles; 180 pistols; 66 machine guns; 36 rocket-propelled-grenade launchers; 10 surface-to-air missiles; ten flame-throwers; 765 grenades; 5,800kg of Semtex explosive; 1,080 detonators; and almost 1.5 million rounds of ammunition of various types”
Jaysis
Gaddafi was in the RA, apparently.
Fair enough
Ooh ah up Gadda……fi
The UDF had the British army behind them along with Mi5 so fuck them both
Libyans, great bunch of lads
Arranged by the Soviet Union. Now there’s a surprise.
I can imagine a bunch of lads in the mountains using the flamethrowers to make a sausage sandwich 🥪
Sure, weren’t they the ones who tried to kill Doc Brown as well the Libyans that is.
Now remember this is the county that took fifty years to admit those they murdered at ballymurphy and Derry were innocent civilians so I’d take anything they believe with a mine of salt.
Brits: We would never do such a thing to anyone else.
It’s one of the reasons the UK govt realised they wouldn’t be able to defeat the Provos militarily. They caught the Eksund with 150 tons of weapons and realised that this was one of 4 maybe more ships that got in successful. With that amount of material the Provos would have been keep in business for another generation if not longer.
“Those ‘Ra bais, great bunch of lads”
~ Gaddafi, probably
I was in a bar in west Belfast a few years back. It had a small museums of Republican artefacts and one of the best was a pair of Gadaffi’s shoes that he gifted to the Ra. Pretty crazy that some fella from west Belfast managed to successfully broker a deal with the Libyans for arms and spent enough time with Gadaffi that he was throwing him spare shoes as a present. Mental
Extent of UDR, UDA british intelligence & some RUC collusion with loyalist paramilitarys doesn’t ever seem to get as much traction with the press.
I’d say the government would of liked this to be released in the come up for the next election.
> the equivalent of roughly €40m today.
Where did this go/who has it now?
I mean they had the guns, the volunteers (volunteers, right?), what other outlays did they have?
Would be interesting to compare these sums with how much the British spent on ‘security’ in Ireland during the same period. As Brendan Behan famously remarked, ‘It’s easy to spot the terrorist – he’s the one with the small bomb!’
I will always have a place in my heart for Libya. Its very sad whats going on there
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“The Libyans supplied 1,450 Kalashnikov automatic rifles; 180 pistols; 66 machine guns; 36 rocket-propelled-grenade launchers; 10 surface-to-air missiles; ten flame-throwers; 765 grenades; 5,800kg of Semtex explosive; 1,080 detonators; and almost 1.5 million rounds of ammunition of various types”
Jaysis
Gaddafi was in the RA, apparently.
Fair enough
Ooh ah up Gadda……fi
The UDF had the British army behind them along with Mi5 so fuck them both
Libyans, great bunch of lads
Arranged by the Soviet Union. Now there’s a surprise.
I can imagine a bunch of lads in the mountains using the flamethrowers to make a sausage sandwich 🥪
Sure, weren’t they the ones who tried to kill Doc Brown as well the Libyans that is.
Now remember this is the county that took fifty years to admit those they murdered at ballymurphy and Derry were innocent civilians so I’d take anything they believe with a mine of salt.
Brits: We would never do such a thing to anyone else.
It’s one of the reasons the UK govt realised they wouldn’t be able to defeat the Provos militarily. They caught the Eksund with 150 tons of weapons and realised that this was one of 4 maybe more ships that got in successful. With that amount of material the Provos would have been keep in business for another generation if not longer.
“Those ‘Ra bais, great bunch of lads”
~ Gaddafi, probably
I was in a bar in west Belfast a few years back. It had a small museums of Republican artefacts and one of the best was a pair of Gadaffi’s shoes that he gifted to the Ra. Pretty crazy that some fella from west Belfast managed to successfully broker a deal with the Libyans for arms and spent enough time with Gadaffi that he was throwing him spare shoes as a present. Mental
Extent of UDR, UDA british intelligence & some RUC collusion with loyalist paramilitarys doesn’t ever seem to get as much traction with the press.
I’d say the government would of liked this to be released in the come up for the next election.
> the equivalent of roughly €40m today.
Where did this go/who has it now?
I mean they had the guns, the volunteers (volunteers, right?), what other outlays did they have?
Would be interesting to compare these sums with how much the British spent on ‘security’ in Ireland during the same period. As Brendan Behan famously remarked, ‘It’s easy to spot the terrorist – he’s the one with the small bomb!’
I will always have a place in my heart for Libya. Its very sad whats going on there