Direct Action Against Drugs
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Direct Action Against Drugs was a vigilante group in Northern Ireland that claimed responsibility for the killing of a number of alleged drug dealers.[1] The organisation was allegedly a front name used by the Provisional IRA in claiming responsibility for the killings.[2]
List of suspected DAAD attacks 1995–2001
- December 1995
- Martin McCrory - small-time drug dealer killed at his home in Turf Lodge, west Belfast.[3]
- Chris Johnston - 38-year-old killed at his home off the Ormeau Road in south Belfast.[3]
- Francis Collins - a former member of the IRA, was killed at his chip shop in the New Lodge, north Belfast.[3]
- September 1996
- Séan (John) Devlin - killed in Friendly Street in the Markets in south Belfast.[4]
- February 1998
- Brendan Campbell - a 30-year-old convicted drug dealer killed outside a restaurant in south Belfast.[5]
- May 1999
- Brendan Joseph Fegan - a 24-year-old man who had been described as one of Northern Ireland's main drug dealers, he was shot 16 times by two gunmen in the Hermitage Bar in Newry.[6]
- June 1999
- Paul Downey - a 37-year-old suspected drug dealer from Newry in County Down was shot, allegedly by DAAD.[7]
- April 2001
- Christopher "Cricky" O'Kane was gunned down as he returned to his security-heavy home in the Currynieran estate, in Derry, on April 21, 2001.
See also
References
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- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/recent/troubles/fact_files.shtml?ff=p07
- ↑ www.globalsecurity.org 'Irish Republican Army (IRA)'
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1995, Accessed 2007-11-08
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1996, Accessed 2007-11-08
- ↑ CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1998, Accessed 2007-11-08
- ↑ McKittrick David, (1999) Lost Lives, Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh
- ↑ CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1999, Accessed 2007-11-08