Denis Donaldson, the senior Sinn Féin administrator who had admitted being a British agent for 20 years, was yesterday found shot dead inside the isolated cottage to which he had retreated in Co Donegal. Reports last night suggested his body had been mutilated and his right hand almost severed.
Suspicions that he had been murdered by dissident republicans cast a shadow over the government’s hopes of reviving the stalled political process. Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, the Irish prime minister, are due to meet tomorrow in the hope of restoring devolved government to the province. Downing Street insisted Mr Blair’s visit would go ahead. Mr Donaldson had been one of the key figures charged in connection with the so-called Stormont spy ring, an affair which brought down the last devolved assembly in 2002.
Of course, the question that the newspaper refuses to address properly is "Who wanted him dead?" This spy, whose cover had been blown for two months, chooses to stay in Ireland? I wonder who it was he felt safe from, living there? If the IRA were looking for me, then Ireland is the last place I would choose to live. I know who I would trust the least. The IRA were honest people, in that they usually tried to give a warning when they planted a bomb. On the other hand, I know who I do not trust one little bit.
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5 April 2006, 13:14
"Dissident Republicans" is a handy term for the plain old IRA whenever they want to do something dirty without the risk of alienating their friends in Irish America or being sucked into the so-called War on Terror.
Do not be deluded about this. The IRA’s code of conduct / "green book" penalizes treachery with death. Usually a very grisly death at that. Bizarrely though, Donaldson, a senior IRA operative, would have known this and would have been expected to take thorough security steps accordingly. Plainly stated, he should have vanished without a trace.
7 April 2006, 19:15
IRA Torture/Murder - The Man Who Knew Too Much
By Wayne Madsen
Wayne Madsen Report.com
4-6-6
Irish Republican Army (IRA) official who spied for British may have had the goods on more senior spies. The torture/slaying of Denis Donaldson, the former Sinn Fein legislative chief in the aborted Protestant-Catholic Northern Ireland administration, reportedly knew of more senior Sinn Fein/IRA officials who had provided internal IRA documents to British intelligence, according to sources close to Sinn Fein.
Donaldson, who was imprisoned in Long Kesh (HM Prison Maze) prison with his friend, famous IRA hunger striker and British MP Bobby Sands, trained in the early 1980s in Lebanon with members of the Palestine Liberation Organization and other terrorist groups. Donaldson maintained his contacts with Hezbollah and the Sh’ia Amal militia after he was recruited as a British agent.
Donaldson had made numerous enemies over the years, ranging from more militant Irish republicans, others within Sinn Fein and the IRA, and Israeli and, more recently, U.S. intelligence, which has been authorized to assassinate any current or former terrorist as part of a "Worldwide Attack Matrix" drawn up by former CIA Director George Tenet in the wake of 911. All are prime suspects in his assassination.
Donaldson had accrued many enemies over the years. All are suspect in his torture/murder
Donaldson was living in fear of his life in a small village in county Donegal in Ireland. He remained distraught throughout the remainder of his life over the death of Sands. However, with torture and two gunshot wounds to the head, suicide was not the cause of Donaldson’s death. The Iranian revolutionary government changed the name of the Tehran street where the British embassy is located from Winston Churchill Street to Bobby Sands Street as a show of support for the Irish republican movement.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
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10 April 2006, 00:37
This link may help:
http://www.sbpost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=NEWS-qqqs=news-qqqid=13313-qqqx=1.asp