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SAS WARLORD

EPISODE ONE

SHOOT TO KILL - THE MRF

Tom Siegriste

Published 2010 by Frontline Noir Publishing,

An imprint of Books Noir, Scotland.

Copyright © Tom Siegriste, 2010

The right of Tom Siegriste to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copy, Design and Patents Act, 1988.

All Rights Reserved 1^st October 2010

Contents

Author’s Note

Prologue

Chapter One Shoot and Scoot

Chapter Two Kings of the Falls Road

Chapter Three A New Quarry

Chapter Four Crime and Punishment

Chapter Five Balls Up

Chapter Six Thomson Twins

Chapter Seven Pulp Fiction

Chapter Eight Crime and Punishment

Chapter Nine Busted Flush

Chapter 10 Super Sniper

Chapter 11 Remember… Remember…

Chapter 12 On the Road to Bruin

Chapter 13 Hanging by a Fred

Chapter 14 One Final Foray

Chapter 15 The Mything Force

Epilogue The End

Author’s Note

This is not a textbook. This is not a military history. It is the story of some very brave men.

Sometimes when truth emerges, it is painful. Sometimes it is dangerous, as sometimes the authorities will not allow things to remain in the past. Sometimes they try to make sure they do. It would be true to say that successive British Government’s have tried to bury this story in the mists of time.

The British soldiers that were involved and are still alive are now old men but believe this is a story that now needs to be told - so that it can never happen again.

The year 1972 was a very long time ago. However, 500 died in Northern Ireland that year, 5,000 more were injured and the bereaved and those whose lives were shattered have long memories.

With that in mind SAS WARLORD: Shoot to Kill is a true story but to protect those involved, certain facts - some names and places - have been distorted. The operational techniques of the unit have not.

Sometimes the distortion is to protect those who have lost loved ones and we have no wish to look back either in anger or with false sorrow.

Remember what happened in 1972, happened in a different age. Today’s sensibilities do not apply to this story.

The Special Forces involved were not from a peacetime Army. They were the soldiers who had never stopped fighting Britain’s secret wars. Any blame for their actions or tactics must be with the politicians and senior officers who let loose these dogs of war.

Orders were orders in that Army - they simply could not be questioned. The one man who did try to raise the alarm, and today would be hailed a “whistleblower”, was put in a mental hospital by Army doctors.

However, the real lunatics were those who deployed the MRF death squad in a United Kingdom sectarian civilian population. Their action was like pouring petrol on a flickering candle - but perhaps for their own misguided purposes they wanted to inflame the Irish situation beyond any reasonable comprehension. Perhaps they wanted to solve it “once and for all”.

There are no official military records available to researchers or the public about the MRF and what has been written about the unit up to now has for the most part been fantasy or at best fanciful.

If you are British and decide to buy this book, be prepared to be shocked and upset by the actions that were taken in your name by Her Majesty’s Government in 1972 and 1973.

Tom Siegriste.

The Irish News

Extract from The Wednesday Column by Brian Feeney

23^rd March 2003

“The MRF had been set up by Brigadier Frank Kitson who commanded 39 Brigade covering the greater Belfast area. One of the unit’s activities was to drive around informers from Catholic districts so that they could point out IRA men to the MRF. On a number of occasions in 1972 and 1973 the MRF shot at such men in ‘drive-by’ shootings but innocent Catholics were killed or injured. We know this because embarrassing details of the MRF’s operations emerged during a murder trial (in 1975).

The MRF’s activities led people in nationalist districts to be extremely wary of cars prowling around at night. The IRA in Belfast was much exercised by the existence of the MRF. They set men at locations where suspected MRF vehicles had been seen.”

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THE MRF

1972

By Tom Siegriste

Belfast: a sectarian nightmare - but a dream, target-rich environment for the SAS-trained operatives of the MRF - the Military Reaction Force. Working undercover, between early 1972 and late 1973, they were too successful for their own good and were disbanded before nervous politicians started to ask too many questions.

Did they have a licence to kill?

Were they the British Army’s Death Squad?

It certainly looked that way…

This, told for the first time, is their story…

“Shoot to Kill”

Chapter 1

Shoot and Scoot

The Narrator:

“Listen

Carrying a gun does not make you a man; it does not make you a soldier. It makes you a target.

Without the proper military training, carrying a gun shortens your life expectancy considerably.

In Northern Ireland, just a glimpse of gunmetal on the streets meant the clock was ticking on your destiny - especially once the men of the Military Reaction Force were on your case.

With SAS training, any weapon makes you a killing machine – even when that weapon is your bare hands.

Monday 20^th March 1972: today’s weapon of choice is the Thompson sub-machine gun. It sits on the armoury shelf incongruously among the weapons of the modern age. It may be almost an antique but it sure packs a punch. The fifty .45 Calibre bullets from its round magazine promise the potential of a St Valentine’s Day Massacre every time it leaves the armoury for an outing.

Its life started in the 1920’s in New York as a gangster’s “enforcer”. It crossed the oceans in the ‘Thirties with one of the five crime families to Cosa Nostra Sicily. In the ‘Forties it had somehow arrived in mainland Italy and was “liberated” from surrendering German troops at Monte Cassino by a British SAS Major whose son now wears the red beret of the Parachute Regiment on the streets of Belfast.”

Location: The MRF Briefing Room in Palace Barracks, Holywood, Belfast. Time: 1900 hours.

A group of casually dressed male figures between 20 and 35 years of age wearing bomber-jackets, blue jeans, jumpers, desert boots or Doc Martens, gather in front of a “rogues’ gallery” of the 50 “most-wanted” IRA terrorists in the Belfast area.

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