British military cooperated with 1972 NI bridge bombing
RTÉ Investigates A military commander of British Army forces in west Fermanagh admitted to cooperating with loyalist paramilitaries in the 1972 bombing of a bridge spanning the border between Co Cavan and Co Fermanagh, RTÉ Investigates has learned. The Aghalane Bridge had been used by IRA units in a series of 1972 raids into South Fermanagh that targeted security forces, particularly local members of the Ulster Defence Regiment. In a 2005 oral history interview with the Imperial War Museum, Retired Major Vernon Rees described being approached by Jack Leahy, a unionist councillor from Lis...
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