Inside the UDA Volunteers and Violence

Name: Inside the UDA Volunteers and Violence
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ISBN: 9780745321073

ISBN-10: 0745321070

ISBN-13: 9780745321073

Edition: 2003

Authors: Colin Crawford, Marie Smyth

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List price: $80.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Pluto Press
Publication date: 10/20/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Abbreviations


Acknowledgements


Foreword




Introduction to the Conflict in Northern Ireland


800 Years of Troubled History


The Roles of the IRA and of the UDA/UFF in the Conflict Since 1969



Researching the UDA


The Probation Service, Long Kesh and Political Prisoners


Specific Methodology



The UDA/UFF: History, Organisation and Structure


A Brief History of the UDA/UFF


A Paramilitary Organisation?


A Working-class Organisation?


Strategy and Tactics: Selective Targeting versus Random Killing


Infiltration by the Police and the Security Forces


Collusion Between Elements of the British Security Forces and Members of the UDA/UFF


From Paramilitaries to a Politicisation of the Conflict



Phase One: Beginnings--the UDA's Chaotic Sectarian War of the 1970s


Sam Duddy


'Ken'


'Billy'


John White



Phase Two: The 1980s UDA/UFF--from Infiltration to Reorganisation


'Terry'


'Jackie'



Phase Three: The Mid-1980s UDA/UFF--Travelling Gunmen and the Selective Strategy


'Gary'


Michael Stone



Phase Four: The 1990s--the Selective Strategy and Retaliatory Sectarian Murder


'Tommy'


Johnny Adair


'Gordon'


'Alan'



Phase Five: The UDA/UFF 1993--the Shankill Bomb and the Greysteel Massacre


Combatant A


Combatant B


Combatant C


Combatant D


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index