Car Used in Massacre Moved in Breach of Bomb Disposal Protocol
“The roadside bomb was in use by PIRA from the early 1970s onwards, evolving over time with different types of explosives and triggers. Improvised mortars were also developed by the IRA, usually placed in static vehicles, with self-destruct mechanisms. During the 38-year campaign in Northern Ireland, 23 British ATO bomb disposal specialists were killed in action.”
‘The Long Walk – Iconic Pictures & Story behind them’, John Chambers Belfast Child Blog, 9th July 2017 [ Archived here ]
IRA Car Bomb. Source: Fair Use. Available from: WikiSpooks [ Archived here ]
“Standard operating procedure (SOP) is the normal procedure followed in any particular eventuality.
‘Standard Operating Procedure’. WikiSpooks [ Archived here ] [ Added Emphasis ]
Importance
SOP is a default procedure which can be either followed, e.g. if standard conditions apply, or deviated from if particular circumstances would seem to justify something unusual.
Deviation from
Deviations from standard operating procedure may be helpful in special (i.e. non-standard) circumstances. When SOP is violated in apparently non-exceptional cases, this provides an indication that other (i.e. covert) forces may be at play.“
In North of Ireland in the mid 1970s there were countless bombs set against the British Army; as such there was a very strict protocol on how to approach suspect areas:
Bomb Disposal Men, Northern Ireland. Source: Fair Use.
…especially since just weeks prior to the attack on the Miami Showband in the very same area, Forkhill, which had killed three bomb disposal troops and a Major:
“Major Peter Willis, the Green Howards company commander in Crossmaglen, — and three bomb disposal specialists had been investigating a milk churn at Cortreasla Bridge in Tullydonnell [at a spot where helicopters often dropped off troops] when they walked through a gap in a hedge next to a signpost. As they did so, an IRA volunteer pressed a button which sent an electric current through a 396-yard-long command — wire to activate a 70 lb bomb packed into a beer keg and buried into the earth in the gap. All four soldiers were killed instantly and another wounded by shrapnel.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland, July 17—Four British soldiers were killed today by a bomb hidden in a milk can near the border with the Irish Republic.
The Provisional I.R.A. claimed responsibility for the bomb, saying it had been planted in retaliation for the deaths of two men and the continued presence of British troops in the province, which is governed by London.
Protestant politicians called for the end of the British Government’s policy of bolstering the uneasy truce by releasing detainees. The Provisionals halted their campaign of violence last Christmas and after secret negotiations with the British agreed to extend the cease‐fire indefinitely. It has been breached repeatedly.
It was many hours before details of the explosion were available. The I.R.A. has such a strong grip on the area, near the village of Forkhill in County Armagh, that troops could not move in to retrieve the bodies before they had checked for further bombs and possible ambushes. A fifth soldier was seriously wounded.
The men, the first soldiers killed since the I.R.A. extended its truce in February, were members of a patrol sent to investigate a suspicious milk can. Spotted a week ago, it had been kept under observation since.”
‘4 Soldiers Killed in Ulster by Bomb in a Milk Can’, The New York Times, July 18, 1975 [ Archived here ]
Taking this into account, according to the official report, after the massacre:
“At daylight a further search of the area was being carried out when a white Ford Escort with the registration number 9528 LZ was discovered hidden up a lane which runs behind a UDR shooting range located approximately 200 yards on the Banbridge side of the scene of the explosion”
Detective Hassan’s Report on the Massacre- taken from ‘The Miami Showband Massacre’- Stephen Travers and Neil Fetherstonhaugh
The likely location of the vehicle can be seen as the lane behind the NITSA complex, still a shooting range but now, since the end of ‘The Troubles’, a civilian facility open to the public:
Author’s Diagram showing the likely location of the abandoned white Ford Escort. Source: Fair Use.
After its discovery:
“The car was examined and briefly searched before it was towed away for forensic examination”
Stephen Travers and Neil Fetherstonhaugh, ‘The Miami Showband Massacre’, 2007 [Added Emphasis]
It can be seen in this photograph, apparently moved nearer the actual crime scene, the crossroads at Buskhill Road, and with number plates removed, presumably at some point during or after the initial search:
Photograph of abandoned White Ford Escort from the Miami Showband Massacre. Source: Fair Use. Available from: The Irish Times [ Archived here ]
A peculiar irregularity in departure from Standard Operating Procedure can be observed as a car suspected of being used in what was claimed to be an IRA a bomb attack, which turned out to be executed apparently by both UDR and RUC men was apparently moved by the UDR and RUC men, according to the officers in attendance, apparently without prior examination by a Bomb Disposal Squad, which goes against every rule of engagement for a terrorist incident, for:
“A bomb has an effect on a human body like no other weapon. The shockwave alone detaches the limbs from the trunk. It enters the mouth and blows off the top of the head. It turns human tissue into vapour. In some instances, all that remains is the spine.”
Narrator, ‘Bomb Squad Men: The Long Walk’ Documentary, 2m:33s – 2m:52s
“1972 marked the birth of the deadly car bomb, a year which saw the IRA plant 1400 devices.”
Narrator, ‘Bomb Squad Men: The Long Walk’ Documentary, 28m:19s
Not to mention that:
“The introduction of the car bomb was a major development by the IRA. It meant the bomber could conceal the device from the A[mmunition] T[echnician] O[fficer]. You would have to open both the car doors and the boot to locate the bomb so that it could be worked on; each action providing an opportunity for a booby-trap”
Narrator, ‘Bomb Squad Men: The Long Walk’ Documentary, 28m:34s – 28m:53s
…and the factor that:
“Terrorists started making homemade explosives and these were less powerful than commercial explosives and so they often had to increase the weight of the explosives. A very convenient way of delivering a bomb to an urban area would be to put it in a vehicle. The terrorists also worked out that if we were given too long to deal with them, we would be successful in dealing with a car bomb and so they used a technique of making shorter and shorter time delays before the car bomb went off.”
Dave Young, Former Bomb Disposal Officer, 321 Squadron, Northern Ireland Conflict, ‘Bomb Squad Men: The Long Walk’ Documentary, 28m:54s – 29m:26s
How did the RUC know it was safe to move?
How could the RUC and armed forces have known the car was safe?
“In the case of the Miami Showband murders where we already have absolute evidence of direct collusion, with three serving members of the UDR having been convicted and two other serving members having blown themselves up at the scene, there is further indirect evidence in that a white Ford Escort, registration number 4933 LZ, was found at the scene of the attack. This car belonged to a gentleman from Portadown[…]
[T]he RUC special branch was well aware that this gentleman was no innocent whose car had simply been stolen at random. We know this from one of the notebooks of Captain Fred Holroyd, a military intelligence officer for Portadown, who linked this man with suspect T and another suspect for the attack on Donnelly’s Bar, Silverbridge. He linked him with the chief suspect or at least the one who was identified in Dublin in Parnell Street as the driver of the Parnell Street car. He linked him with two other suspects, one for the Monaghan bombing and suspect C for the Dundalk bombing…”
TRANSCRIPTS OF OUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE JOINT OIREACHTAS SUB COMMITTEE ON THE BARRON REPORT INTO THE BOMBING OF KAY’S TAVERN, DUNDALK
27th September 2006, Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women’s Rights
Sub-Committee on the Barron Report- Dé Céadaoin, 27 Meán Fómhair 2006 – Wednesday, 27 September 2006 Public Hearing on the Barron Report [ Archived here ]
It is also quite plain that the Royal Ulster Constabulary, the Ulster Defence Regiment and Loyalist paramilitaries effectively worked as one entity, and absolutely did not wish to officially ‘know’ which of their members were involved in terrorism:
“We have in [the Miami Showband’s] possession a document marked ‘SECRET – UK EYES’ which was copied to the highest ranking officials in Northern Ireland including the Secretary of State and dated April 17th 1974 and this was part of what it says, ‘I should stress that under these proposals the UDR’s collecting role will be directed at intelligence on terrorist activities. There is no intention of recruiting or encouraging members of the UDR to become informers on subversive elements within the UDR although as you know subversion in the UDR is a cause for concern. Both the GOC [General Officer Commanding]and Commander UDR would be strongly averse to any proposal to task members of the UDR in this way.’ Now, here we have the highest ranking officials clearly stating that should members of the UDR have knowledge of active terrorists within their ranks they are not to report them.”
Enda McClafferty interviews Stephen Travers on Radio Foyle. 31st July, 2013 [Added Emphasis]
…indicating the approval of collusion with terrorism at the highest levels.
However if the information that the white Escort was a ‘friendly vehicle’ had not been immediately available, it appears that the ‘ownership’ of the event had already been broadcast surreptitiously, through the date, Lughnasadh, and:
- Buskhill Road – Buskhill
- Donaghmore
- Newry
- Down
- A Firing Range
…as well as the others we will encounter:
“The reason we are seeing these words come up in these … events is that we have a wing of Intelligence telling the rest of the Intelligence community it is there […] It is saying, “We are here! We did this… it is a manufactured event and we manufactured it. Stand down.”
Miles Mathis, ‘The Unabomber Was Another Psy-Op’, First published September 13, 2014 [ Archived here ]
…thus those in charge of the boots on the ground would apparently be able to ‘read’ the Twilight Language and know that the event emanated from:
“…[a]mid the alphabet soup of loyalist paramilitary groups – the UVF, LVF, UDA, etc”
Michael Smith, ‘The UDR: A potent weapon in Britain’s ‘dirty war’ in Northern Ireland’, The Irish Times, 9th April 2022 [ Archived here ]
…as well as the SAS, the FRU (Forces Research Unit) their controllers at Mi5, Mi6, Special Branch:
“We did this…it is a manufactured event and we manufactured it. Stand down.”
Miles Mathis, ‘The Unabomber Was Another Psy-Op’, First published September 13, 2014
…thus without committing incriminating details of foreknowledge of collusion through official channels in the Chain of Command, which could be overheard by non-sympathetic actors in the British Army, creating potential problems for the security of their programme of apparent occult terrorism through the use of Twilight Language hiding encoded messages in plain sight, the other intelligence agencies supervising the clean up apparently knew it would be safe to abandon Standard Operating Procedure and approach the car, knowing it was a friendly vehicle, and rather than using Ammunition Technician Officers in a painstaking operation lasting most of the day, they could merely:
“…examine[ ]and briefly search[ the car] before it was towed away for forensic examination”
Stephen Travers and Neil Fetherstonhaugh, ‘The Miami Showband Massacre’, 2007
…rather than follow Standard Operating Procedure and call in the bomb disposal squad, the Ammunition Technical Officers.
‘The Long Walk’ A British Army ammunition technical officer approaches a suspect device in Northern Ireland. 29 October 2006. Source: Public Domain. Available from: Wikicommons
[ Archived here ]
…who would take hours of painstaking work in approaching, searching and declaring the suspect vehicle as threat-free.
Now the location of the Miami Showband massacre, in hindsight of the apparent:
“…reason we are seeing these words come up in these…events is that we have a wing of Intelligence telling the rest of the Intelligence community it is there […] It is saying, “We are here! We did this… it is a manufactured event and we manufactured it. Stand down.”
Miles Mathis, ‘The Unabomber Was Another Psy-Op’, First published September 13, 2014
…it begins to look yet even more like what is known as a ‘Revelation of the Method’:
“…the…Masonic “Revelation of the Method.”…alludes to the process wherein murderous deeds and hair-raising conspiracies…and every manner of horror show are first buried beneath a cloak of secrecy… and then, when finally accomplished and secured, slowly revealed to the unsuspecting populace who watch…deep-frozen…as the hidden history is unveiled.”
Michael Hoffman II, ‘Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare’, 1992 Edition, Pg 36 [ Archived here ]
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