| Title: | Celt Notefile |
| Moderator: | TALLIS::DARCY |
| Created: | Wed Feb 19 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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I found the following statistics in book I have, details below.
The book is about arms dealing and not about Northern Ireland,
it includes chapters on Isreal, Afghanistan etc. It is a well
written and researched book and is not biased. I recommend the
book to anyone who has an even a minor interest in these
matters.
The figures below show captured arms shipments intended for the
IRA. The shipmants are between 1971 and 1986. I am sure there
have been shipments before and after these dates.
Does anyone have similar figures for shipments to Nationalist
terrorist groups, I would be interested in seeing them if they
exist.
Libya has made the biggest arms contribution to the IRA, but the
USA has made more contributions.
Date At Origin Wpns Ammo Sppt Notes
Oct 71 Schipol Airport Czech 104 Yes Yes Included Anti-tank
grenade launchers.
Mar 73 At sea off Irish Libya 493 Yes Yes Included 250 AK-47s and
Republic explosives.
Nov 77 Antwerp Al Fatah 71 Yes No Included 2 mortars and
explosives.
Oct 79 Dublin USA 160 Yes Yes
June 81 New York USA 23 Yes Yes Included 20mm cannon
and flame-thrower.
June 82 Nantes Belgium? 33 Yes No Included Soviet grenade
and explosives.
June 82 Newark, NJ USA 51 Yes Yes
Aug 83 Le Harve USA 28 Yes Yes Included explosives
Sept 84 At Sea off Irish USA 156 Yes Yes Included AA machine
Republic gun mounts.
Jan 86 Amsterdam Belgium? 17 Yes Yes Included 800 litres of
nitro-benzene.
Jan 86 Republic Libya 118 Yes Yes
Oct 86 At Sea off Brittany Libya 1000 Yes Yes Included first known
shipment of SAM-7
missiles.
Nov 83 Republic Australia 10 Yes No
June 86 Le Harve USA 37 Yes No
July 86 Paris France 6 Yes No Included 6 grenades
Totals:
Wpns Shipments
Libya 1611 USA 6
USA 455 Libya 3
Czech 104 Belgium 2
Al Fatah 71 Australia 1
Belgium 50 Al Fatah 1
Australia 10 France 1
France 6 Czech 1
Key: WPNS Weapons
AMMO Ammunition
SPPT Supporting Equipment
Source:
Title "Trading in Death",
Sub Title "Weapons, Warfare and the Modern Arms Race"
Author James Adams,
Publisher Hutchinson,
First Published 1990
ISBN 0-09-173762-1
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Does the book show the arms shipment figures to the
British forces in north east Ireland.
You know, things like rubber bullets, machine guns,
ammunition, armoured land-rovers, helicoptors,
night-vision equipment, eaves-dropping equipment,
NATO light weapons, tear gas, and Walther PPK's
for our SAS friends, etc.
Is it as I suspect, that most of these weapons
shipments to the British forces, has come from
Britain?
Does it also detail the arms shipments to loyalist
terror gangs from the British government (oh, I guess
they don't usually get "intercepted" so we probably
don't have figures on that).
Mark
P.S.
Na, nope, I'm sure your book isn't biased at all.
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