The South Armagh Sniper is the generic name given to the members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army's (IRA) South Armagh Brigade who conducted a sniping campaign against British security forces from 1990 to 1997. They came to dread it and that was part of its effectiveness.Three of the security forces members killed in this campaign were instead the victims of Contrary to the first British Army assessment and the speculation of the press,Between 1990 and 1997, 24 shots were fired at British forces.
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An Army spokesman said: "As published in the normalisation plan of 28 March 2006, the military will be leaving Crossmaglen by the end of this month."
It was one of the few times the SAS didn't shoot members of an IRA 'active service unit' on armed operations.
The team, which included Sinn Fein TD Caoimhghin O Caolain's brother-in-law, Bernard McGinn from Castleblayney, Co Monaghan, were sentenced to lengthy jailed terms but released in 2000 as part of the prisoner amnesty.
" Harnden 2000, p. The man, who has the official title of 'officer commanding' South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional IRA, is also a member of the 'Northern Command', the ruling body which effectively ran the organisation from the early 1980s.
A former SAS "In 1971, the Provisional IRA shot dead forty-two British soldiers. In the aftermath of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, Conor Hurt confesses his involvement in the IRA to a reporter who is more involved in Conor's past than she realizes.
He had charge of the IRA's Border sniper team, which killed seven soldiers and two police officers in the 1990s.The team was eventually rounded up and arrested in an operation by the British Army's SAS near Crossmaglen in April 1997. In the aftermath of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, Conor Hurt confesses his involvement in the IRA to a reporter who is more involved in Conor's past than she realizes.
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All you needed to do was shoot one every six months..." (Harnden 2000, p. 410, quoting a terrorist).
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