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To: maceng2 who wrote (24592)	10/26/2002 5:03:18 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<I'll leave out the book by a supposed SAS guy who wrote about his experiences in a hit man squad. His reputation was trashed later by government sources as making it all up. (They tell the truth of course) I read that book and found it weird for someone to make it up. > PB, I recall a couple of IRA guys in Spain were murdered on the street by what I am sure were British agents, probably acting with the approval of the Spanish. I suppose those doing the job were SAS types or some equivalent. They were not arrested. Having suffered the Brighton bombing, I can understand the British government deciding that they'd simply kill IRA people where the found them. The difficulty with that of course is the same as military tribunals deciding the guilt of 'enemy combatants' - it's all too easy to throw in a few neighbours or opposition supporters or cuckolding suitors who need their comeuppance. The extra-judicial execution is the style of the KGB and Pinochet. I'm not keen on it in the civilized world. Mqurice