More Details on McCartney's KillersYou gotta read deep into this article
to get fresh meat:
The past records of the gang thought to be responsible for the killing go some way to explaining why these men can still prevent 72 people who were in Magennis's bar on the night of the murder from telling the truth.
Take the leading figure the IRA banished from its ranks last week. He is the former 'officer commanding' of the IRA's Belfast brigade and until a few days ago held a senior position in the terror group's 'northern command'. This man, whom the McCartney sisters claim gave the order for the assault on their brother and Devine, has been a front-line 'soldier' for more than 20 years.
He has killed for the organisation even when the IRA was supposed to be on ceasefire. In 1995 he played a leading role in the IRA's violent purge of petty drug dealers from nationalist areas of the city. The first murder carried out by the IRA's cover name 'direct action against drugs' was the drug dealer Mickey 'Moneybags' Mooney and the former IRA officer commanding was said to have pulled the trigger.
The main suspect in the McCartney murder, the man who is said to have plunged a knife into him and severed an artery to his heart, has a long history of violent assaults. He has also mutilated and assaulted women. Four years ago during a domestic dispute he lifted a scalding hot iron and burned the breast of a middle-aged woman. She never made a statement to the police about the attack.
Of the other dozen 'Untouchables' there is a former Sinn Fein election worker along with a bodyguard to Gerry Adams.Bad bunch indeed. I have a sick feeling they're going to get away with it.
More
here, with names to fit the killers:
Gerard "Jock" Davison, said to have ordered the killing following a brawl in a Belfast pub, Jim "Dim" McCormack, reported to have administered the fatal knife blow, and Gerard Montgomery, alleged to have orchestrated the clean-up operation afterwards, have remained defiant despite widespread disgust among the nationalist community.
Davison, McCormack and Montgomery are among the Belfast IRA's most powerful and ruthless "volunteers".
Davison, 37, lives in Short Strand -- an island of nationalists surrounded by loyalists in East Belfast -- a few hundred yards from the house where Mr McCartney lived with his fiance, Bridgeen Hagans, and their two children.
He is frequently seen driving around Short Strand in an expensive four-wheel-drive car and his comfortable home, where he lives with his wife and son, 18, is guarded by burly young men.
Davison remains a member of the Northern Command, regarded as the real powerbase of the IRA. He is the undisputed leader of the IRA in Short Strand.
His defiance of Gerry Adams' orders to submit to a trial, and his sneering contempt for the dignified campaign for justice being waged by Mr McCartney's sisters, is an indication of Davison's belief in his own impregnability.
"Jock Davison is not going to end his liberty over a bar fight just to make Gerry Adams look good," said one republican source. Hat Tip:
Slugger O'Toole
