EX-SAS MAN on SOUTH ARMAGH & EAST TYRONE IRA Units, Gerry Adams Story & more | Harry McCallion 

Brilliant thanks, looking forward to it already 👍

Ok

The IRA were infiltrated at every level, look how easily they gave up when told to basically, when we decided to get involved in the Balkans. They were told, give up, or we take you out. Every soldier knows we could finish them over the weekend, we know 99.9% of them. Adams and McGuinness were informers, that's why they were allowed to become MPs. I heard from MI5 friend, though he would not name anyone, that the provisional Army Council of 7 had two informers in their ranks.

One of the SAS men involved was John McAleese who had taken part in the Iranian Embassy siege and was a veteran of the Falklands War. He took part in another successful action against the East Tyrone IRA. He was wanted on child pornography images which were found on his computer. He went to Greece and there was an extradition warrant for his arrest at the time of his death. His son John was KIA serving with The Rifles in Afghanistan by an IED in Helmand province.

There's a conspiracy theory about this. Apparently he was set up by the British government for going rougue. ​@johnroche7541

​@@johnroche7541that doesn't surprise me. The SAS are literally just the sickest of the sick. It's why they're picked.

​@@johnroche7541John McAleese was set up by his own side. 'Child porn' images etc etc Yeah, of course. The usual trick of Intel to play the man not the ball.

pure fantasy and lies

Sas got shot and killed here in Northern Ireland.Brits shit themselves in crossmaglen.Had to pull out as they couldn’t conquer it 😂

What’s the book called? Thanks

@@Alanhock75 It's called ' I'm a Legend in My Own Mind'.

@@Alanhock75 "Killing Zone"

Killing Zone.... excellent read​@@Alanhock75

Probably not, but some Derry volunteers were killed in Fermanagh, like those killed at Kesh & the Gransha Hospital, but yeah Sands was from west Belfast. But he's right about Tyrone being betrayed by the leadership, I believe it was Kevin McKenna the commander of the East Tyrone Brigade from the late 70s - 1983 & was Chief of Staff from 1983 - 1997, he was the only person high up enough who had enough contact between the Army Council & the East Tyrone Brigade and also have the ability to pass on intelligence to the British forces.

@@davebrayfb John Crawley us marine in IRA said in an interview the leadership and army council never knew about local units operations till after they happened....read his book recently called the yank... brilliant read

@@jackietreehorn5561 Well, yeah I can't imagine Adams or McGuinness green-lighting attacks like the 1993 Shankill Road bombing or the Warrington bombs the same year. But they centralized power much more than previous leaders like MacStofain, Daithi O'Connelll or Seamus Twomey who would just outline a general strategy & the brigade commanders & then battalion commanders would implement it. It's telling that the first bombing by the PIRA in England the Old Bailey bombing in March 1973, was done totally by the Belfast Brigade, the leadership just gave it the green light, and after 10 IRA Volunteers from Belfast were arrested for that the IRA Army Council then took over the running of the campaign in England using 3 or 4 man cells to carry smaller attacks that were more sustainable. Like, from the 18 August 1973 - 21 December 1974 bomb attacks mounted to one every three days, they had a northern cell, a west-midlands cell & a southern/London cell, operating at the same time. Then from 1977 - 1988 the campaign went back to less sustainable attacks but bigger attacks to shock the public, when small incendiary devices seemed to have little effect anymore. Like from 1977 - 1984 the IRA only carried out about 25 bomb attacks in England but they included a bomb attack on Chelsea Barracks which killed 2 people & injured 40 in 1981, in 1982 the Hyde & Regents Park bombings which killed 11 soldiers & injured 50 people, the Harrods bombing in 1983 which killed 3 police & 3 civilians & injured 90 & the Brighton bombing a year later in 1984.

@@jackietreehorn5561 I've seen a lot of interviews with John Crawley the Yank as well. He was also the second Yank involved in IRA operations in London. In 1974/75 Liam Quinn was a part of the unit that became known as the Balcombe Street gang but had to flee the country after shooting a police officer who was chasing him & several other officers saw his face.

@@davebrayfb I always remember the day the downing Street attack happened....got in from school and only 4 channels on TV then....all breaking news on all channels...the censorship of Adams voice in the 90s was ludicrous....fella that dubbed him was actor Stephen rea too, and married to Dolores price....kind of ironic lol

he was probably referring to his representation of Fermanagh south Tyrone in parliament

@@ThePhoneBook123ABC Maybe so.

Titbit: Bobby's father was a Protestant!!

@@shamrockballs1066 silly wee lad you are ! It was obvious what he was referring to ya balloon ye !

Abbots cross before Rathcoole was built.

Nice now English people are fighting to get there country back from immigration

I do not believe that. Majors do not do house calls personally and if this happened to you without reasonable cause you would have got the police involved and made a major claim scuz pun against the British army. Ex RM.

@@chrissheppard5068 You do understand the concept of first person perspective?

​@@doubleducks814yes and also the concept of lies

@@doubleducks814 You understand the concept of been there done that. In the very early days 69 and very early 70ties it was a bit cowboy but soon became an Op with both hands tied behind you back trying to appease the twats trying to kill you. You got nicked for farting in the wrong direction. The Irish knew how to play the compo game and this kind of incident would have been reported and those involved investigated by a police force who wanted brownie points again from the same ones who wished them dead. As I stated Majors are company commanders in the Brit army they do not do house calls or raids. They plan and conduct them from a CP far from the point of contact/house. The only thing a major may have done is go to the house after a complaint with a bunch of flowers and apologise for his men's actions such had the BS gotten into the system because of politicians wanting their cake and eating it while grunts suffered. I do not believe your comment it is very civvie perception of some lefty who is living in London and La la land. I bet you are English to boot and not Northern Irish. Irony of ironies I am Irish who served in the Royal Marines and I saw my job out there to stop people murdering each other.

He was elected as MP for Fermanagh & Tyrone.

​@@Aindriuhdoesn't mean he's from there or ever been there.

@JohnKobaRuddy I know. But it is what was implied. Most UK MPs are not from the area they represent. People still refer to them as being from there though.

​@@Aindriuhit's the opposite. When a UK MP is not from the local area people are very aware of it. Often used against them by political opponents.

That's what we need to hear, your story.

Wow, what a story!!!!!!! Good luck with the upcoming election... If only we had more men standing as independents.

Tony Blair is a well known member.

💯 the top people are always run by an agenda above what it seen.

Wheels within wheels. The deeper truths are never addressed.

This is a preview.

@@kevinbarry1888 thanks 👍

Sad guy passed out

Because he's a walter mitty

Probably confusung thevelection

He’s not confused, he’s lying. RU-vid’s is full of people claiming to be something they’re not.

This made me giggle

Remember they (SAS) got lost and surrendered in the Flagstaff incident, map reading error.

They were not lost , just got found in the wrong side of the border .It could have been a nasty surprises for the guard of it they wanted too make something of it .🤔

Probably referring to him as an MP?

Ya first i heard of the south armagh been infiltrated . Dont thinl thats true at all. They were probably the only brigade that never were.

Seemingly they swerved the lead rounds in S Armagh but swerved off the roads in West Germany, dying very shortly after their 'contact' in Ireland. Frightful driving skills.

@@KeithWilliamMacHendry Maybe

I remember in early 1980s in Derry, Near Pennyburn, the IRA ambushed a van and everyone inside was killed, I remember people saying there was bodies seen inside the van when door was opened. Area sealed off and chopper up, 6 o'clock news... NOTHING, after News at Ten news.. Nothing. Few days later some British Soldiers who died in Cyprus after an Accident. They published their names.

Exactly and The urban area ira brigades like Derry and Belfast were under 24/7 surveillance and most of them were touts by the 80s. It was only the rural east Tyrone and south Armagh brigades that were actually able to conduct any meaningful offensives after the late 70s.

@eoin8156 true mate I'm from West tyrone Bobby sands is from Belfast there paying for it now though I live london should see state the place over run with imagrents they all want there country back

Totally agree sell outs

You have no knowledge what's so ever

@@Dinoman759 absolutely 100% touts.

Don't forget the 32 H-block wardens/staff, who were murdered during the hunger strikes

Dying for your Nation isn't dying for nothing.

​@@Hiberno_spergdepends on the circumstances.

nonsense they brought about the first step in getting the english to the table which would eventually lead to the good Friday agreement, anybody

@@TonyODonnell by surrendering their weapons 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Scotsman fighting for the English

Thank you for your service. 💪

Scotsman in Ireland fighting for your English masters 🤣🤣

@@irishdepartmentofagriculture A Scotsman in Ireland fighting for the Crown Forces 👑 🇬🇧 ❤️

@@noodlyappendage6729 And what thanks did the Scots ever get from their English political masters.

Would you go a chicken supper bobby sands.

​@@davidblack7968Brighton up your day

Nonsense.

I have seen 6 places so far and not read all the comments. I guess Ireland ?

He grew up in rathcoole housing estate then moved to twin book both in Belfast area

I was up in primary school on the convent hill that day on lunchtime break. We were all sent home shortly afterwards.

I was in the guard room at the time.

You could see the plums of smoke rising up from the mill that day as we were up in St. Joseph's PS just up past the police station. When they sent us home the village was sealed off and I remember the Spotter plane flying over the Village.

@@Thedukes1984We (B Coy) were based on the top floor of BBK. A company of Royal Marines were next level down. So up and down the metal mountain with all out patrol kit! First room on the right was the int officer’s. Made sense. As 4 of us were taking off in a Lynx to be dropped off down nr the border, I first noticed the blue flashing, revolving lights (like a police car). There was at least one on top of a hut. I hadn’t noticed it before. I saw a mate get hit by shrapnel and go down. I thought he was dead. I saw the flatbed outside the Mill. The ‘tubes’. Then we were gone none the wiser. Close call. My mate Dave had nasty lacerations to neck and shoulder. He was invalided out.

​@@RalphBrooker-gn9ivinteresting to hear your POV....from that area myself, but thankfully all in the past now

Yeah u right he used to meet mi5 agents in a cafe outside Belfast when the hunger strike was happening he got things to answer for he also Frank scabatichi stay in Belfast they big mates. I think I spelled Freddie name wrong.

Fracis Hurson was the hungerstriker from East Tyrone who died.

@@user-ir2om7lt6o This man was talking of a person who had led a group of people in Tyrone, Francis Hughes would be your man.

@@user-ir2om7lt6o As well as him wearing the uniform etc. Francis is the only man I am aware of apart from Martin Mehaan senior who wore an actual uniform in battle. In the recent past that is. A lot wore a mix of BDU 's in South armagh like he said standard british camo, but the Uniforms worn by Francis and Mehaan were standout distinctive beret and all just had to correct that!

@@TheRisenPeopleEire the rural Ra lads would have worn camo...makes no sense for urban ones wearing it although could be wrong....

@@jackietreehorn5561 I know this for a fact they did. But they also wore civi clothes for the most part in urban areas.

Google him and be ashamed calling him out 🤔

Probably undercover

I saw how they handled Covid, kept us locked in our homes and unable to bury our dead while they marched the streets in a show of strength for an IRA funeral, the people in the north are under no delusions!

Handle it? They're the ones who will give you it. Just like the rest of the western world.

He was actually from Rathcoole which is a large loyalist estate or became one during the troubles but was brought up there when Protestants and Catholics lived together before the troubles broke out.

After the Sands and other families were burnt out?

Spooks and £50 pound note Touts. 🤢 🤮 Sad and shameful..

It must be linked to the Loughall investigation by the IRA. After Loughall the IRA conducted an inquiry led by Pete Ryan and the Head of Internal Security- Freddie Scappaticci. They interviewed over 100 Tyrone Republicans to try and ascertain exactly what had happened. Those names must have made their way to British Intelligence which then in turn made their way to the Loyalists. Then a very highly placed source was passing info on the Tyrone operations. The leak to me appears to have been a central leak. Most likely Northern Command, as they were vetting operations particularly after Enniskillen.

How many then.. was there stuff in Eds book nobody else heard of 😂

@@mikedon5205 oh look another republican bar fly has had a few whiskies

@@cannibalholocaust3015 not answering the question which was not difficult.. how many ira lost their lives in the 90s and late 80s nothing to do with bars or whiskey you brought up the narrative I just asked

Chelsea rent boy ,Everton fc scouse not English

Tell us more. What happened?

Don’t forget the Spanish and Italian mob they practically were the IRA

Was never a war, never, Republican & Loyalist thugs engaged in criminality for cash is what it amounted to. Dress it up whatever way you like.

​@@ononewheelladid say army on the streets with fortification military bases and patroling areas was a war what else would you call it

@@jackietreehorn5561 If it was a war, why hasn’t Adams/ McGuinness ever been tried for war crimes. All state agents, figures are like 80% of Republicans and 90% of Loyalists. They were nothing more than sectarian deaths squads.

British informers too.

Not Bobby.

@@SheilaConlon-tu4bk yeah sorry, the other two just.

😂😂😂😂😂

Nah lived with his bird majella

No. His family were forced out of rathcoole in early 70s by loyalists and they then settled in twinbook.

They don't call him Loughgall Gerry for nothing. 🤢 🤮 26 good man yourself. 👌

Obviously the guy being interviewed has an agenda.

Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence

He's half drunk for goodness sake.

McCallion is pretty far from a fantasist, ex-SAS, & has lived a life that's full on, do some research & you will see matters differently. He became a barrister.

Your right there Gerry

Did he say the Bobby Sands came from the Tyrone area just after 4 mins? 👀

You seem... upset Provie.

The British had its highest casualties in South Armagh with over 130 KIA in terms of area including around 50 Paras. There was also some SAS casualties but some were undeover soldiers and not SAS. Corporal Tommy Palmer of the SAS was a veteran of both the Iranian Seige( can be seen on the balcony) and the Falklands. He was killed in a RTA near Lurgan.

@@johnroche7541 He was killed in a car crash ffs

@@declanshanahan3888 That's exactly what I stated. RTA(Road Traffic Accident).

@@johnroche7541 He was killed in a CC.😉

An obvious example being the two undercover soldiers killed at the funeral. It was claimed they were members of the Royal Signals who had got lost. I saw an interview with an ex SAS soldier who served in Oman. He claimed their losses were much higher then the single figure released.

You'd drink too , if you had on your conscience, what he has.

@jamesoneill2933 yes I have to agree with u old chap

Ulster is British, my Provie friend. And soon, your much loved ROI will resemble the middle east too

@@KH-wy7le The significance of our seaborder, my little loyalist urchin , would indicate such as there has been, shall we say , a divergence.

@@godsavethequeen7286 not the sentiments of a great many Liverpool fans ,I must say.

Only burger flippers ( livin with mom) join the American military .

Most squaddies are numbskulls and/or miscreants.

Jim and the A - team wanted to clear the Clogher valley and the entire border region of enemy Protestant unionists, the best man that ever came out of Co. Monaghan and an lrish Republican Legend.

I doubt it. The Brits were using more effective electronic surveillance techniques. Same way they got the sniper team in 97. Most likely they picked up the intel from a home or vehicle

@@seanbrennan4356 80% Human source intelligence.

@@bosco292 not sure where you are getting that number but it seems like pure speculation at best. Military intelligence most likely had one or several of the loughgall and their families bugged and overheard planning. It’s usually that simple

@@seanbrennan4356 They bugged a pub in Monaghan town for the intelligence that was popular amongst the volunteers.

So it's all down to those bloody nice chaps who came a cropper at the Mull of Kintyre so you could say, I would suggest, that they inadvertently proved that there is a God......or maybe someone even higher, if you take my meaning, a nice spot of internal housekeeping, saves for any awkwardness later on.

Not so sure about that .. this is typical rewriting a narrative which I've noticed some military like to do .. I've heard fromer sas say oh the ira were hated in NI we were the good guys ..really why did their political wing win the votes then .. Also he say s armagh ira were penetrated.. That'll be news to people of Manchester and London who saw massive truck bombs going off . Operations requiring dozens yet uk authorities seemed oblivious.. Fact is sin fien knew the violence had to stop if they wanted to get the mainstream vote in NI .. Many ira didn't even want to stop then . Wasn't until omagh bomb that many people said enough of this time for political approach

@@mikedon5205 That Omagh bomb coming as it did on Our lady's accession day was the work of MI5+6 and G2 , naturally. The bomb to end bombs as I heard it termed.

Google him!

He's more likely to be sat at the other side of the bar.

That's what cop said in die hard

How in any way is the war Ukraine related to this.

@@exploringtheplanetsn totally relevant!!