The F.R.U - Licensed to Kill | Remastered | The Troubles

An exceptional documentary detailing our troubled past in relation to the FRU handling itself within the conflict.
The state really did murder its own citizens....
Should we as a collective society allow the government to hide this?
Without taking sides in our conflict, on a moral , transparent note , should we allow the state to murder and go unchallenged?
Put yourself in the daughter, mother, sons shoes knowing their family member was murdered on the orders of the state in which they were a citizen with rights like everyone else.
Would you not want to know the truth?
The legacy of the past should be put into the hands of the people, not politicians. I wouldn't want any political party to get a moral high ground or do well in some elections over these issues.
We all just want the truth of what happened and if a wrong was done by whom was this ordered by and for what reason.
We all just want the truth, some will want justice also but I would take truth over justice this far down the road than anything else.
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[@melissabyrne8749]

Not a night goes by when there's not something to watch on this channel. Fair play to you great channel

[@ATroubledLand]

Thanks Melissa, I might slow down a little - nah too much to upload! :)

[@sleepwalker8600]

Your channel is like a treasure trove of Irelands recent history, it’s absolutely beyond belief what went on up here. Thank you for sharing these.

[@cooltools007]

You have got probably the best archive of film and video on the troubles anywhere,.. for all those affected living or not,.. and those wanting to learn what happened in the past,.. its a awesome reference ,.. great work and foresight my friend 👍👍💯

[@ATroubledLand]

Hopefully some are downloading them so they are always knocking around for future generations :)

[@cooltools007]

@@ATroubledLand some serious terrabytes for this lot of history, hopefully those who just watch will, take a positive message from them that we should avoid the violence at all costs,.. unfortunately Ukrainian people where given no such choice,.. from putin ehh take care brother great work 👍👍

[@ATroubledLand]

@@cooltools007 Big time - my pc crashed a few days ago. I lost a lot of apps including editing software - thankfully no files but I do have everything thus far on disc. Ukraine..... I always wanted to see Russia, not so much anymore :/ Happy easter mate :)

[@outlawJosieFox]

Sadly it is going to have a time limit as the British government love a good cover up and expect their citizens to maintain an amnesiac state about Northern Ireland. Even more sadly their strategy tends to work. I doubt many English people have ever seen these documentaries.

[@colinstewart1432]

Demonstrates perfectly why this is known as The Dirty War. Nobody no matter what side, comes out of this conflict clean. Brilliant upload. Brilliant channel. 👍

[@stephenholmes1036]

This is brilliant journalism and well done for showing these

[@geoffirwin3952]

Well said 👏

[@paulflah4562]

Int milk brilliant as well though 😂😂

[@shellyreddy598]

Fantastic channel, thank you so much for sharing, and putting in so much work. Brilliant content, very deep, emotional but very true.

[@ATroubledLand]

Thanks for watching Shelly :)

[@johanakermyr1437]

Once again a brilliant documentary raising my blood pressure... Haha! Thanx!

[@ATroubledLand]

Johan my friend - much respect to you :) Take my channel in small doses - it is very overwhelming sometimes!

[@gertrootsmalls2228]

Another great video, thanks very much

[@ATroubledLand]

Glad you enjoyed it Gertroot :)

[@k.r.murphy4301]

Thank you for getting this into the light of day.

[@ATroubledLand]

You're welcome :)

[@davidoconnell4100]

The state should come out and say yes, we will act to protect the country at all costs. Big Boys Games, Big Boys Rules.

[@ipsa_est]

Thank you for the channel! Can you provide more context about your sources, such as where and when and by who it was originally aired? It would make it easier to cite.

[@Kazzb1967]

I love your channel it’s really good

[@mac1975]

Best 4 years of my life. ‘Fishers of men’

[@stephenholmes1036]

Mrs Hamill seem a good woman with lovely children. I hope they found happiness

[@ATLmodK]

I would like to hear the words of Mrs Hamill but the loud “background” music drowns her words out

[@albertcathers3209]

Have you any of the peter tailor provo documentaries?

[@ATLmodK]

They are banned on KZbin but available on Patreon. patreon.com/ATroubledLand/

[@davidbarr2155]

Evil judiciary 👩‍⚖️

[@jimmclaughlin2728]

15.24 (quote) MANIFESTLY GUILTY, how can anyone be manifestly guilty without a trial in open court without a judge of good standing and jury. we in N. Ireland are and always will be second class citizens in UK.

[@biglawd]

couldn't tie there own shoes lol

[@marksutherland3340]

The sound quality of this vid is appalling. Most of the interviews are very difficult to understand

[@macseanchaidhe4263]

Watching in April 2023, and comparing the facts within with the celebratory accolades of the GFA 25th anniversary. I continue to pray these families, victims, and all Ireland receive justice. The other thought that I cannot avoid is to wonder how today, the people and their SF, having lived and died under these corrupt, ruthless circumstances, can unequivocally and so publicly support the bloodthirsty regimes of Hamas, Fatah and PLO that employ these very same tactics and extrajudicial murders against its own people, as well as Israelis and Arabs alike? It makes no sense; the Republicans should and do know better. Fix this. And know and live in peace. Thank you.

[@dmfub2348]

Tom King must have thought wwe all came down in the last shower.

[@dsd7004]

Notarantino(sp) killing was army trying to save their own ira agent, stakeknife scapaticci (sp). So told their other agent , BR, no kill this guy instead. A guy who hadn't been involved for 25 years.

[@emilygooner9697]

Idk how stake knife can look himself in the mirror, all he has done and yet he is living in protection still I believe

[@jamescardoness3037]

The FRU (force research unit )was a unit of the UDR ( local NI staff mainly from the Loyalist community working in plain clothes not as the regular Army in uniform) they where used to facilitate murder through the UDA and UVF gangs by giving them intelligence etc. ( and some say weaponry ) and ensuring the attackers had a free run during the attacks. It was known at the time they were disliked by the RUC Special Branch and indeed the regular Army from HQNI. No one was quite sure where their commander Col Gordon Kerr got his authority from. As a fall back if anything went wrong and their practical role in murder became exposed, as it did with the Stevens enquiry. the Unit had an 'informer handling' smoke screen to fall back on e.g. the Brian Nelson 'fog'. So involved were the FRU in murders that after the Stevens enquiry the Chief Constable of the day Sir Hugh Orde wanted to arrest the Army GOC in N Ireland . I'm sure the GOC knew little of Kerr's operations it is more than probable the unit was run directly by MI5 who take their orders from the Cabinet Office (strangely enough Tony Blair has put those cabinet papers beyond reach for 80 years ) . Telling after the FRU was disbanded Col Gordon Kerr was made a Brigadier with an MI6 role located in China.

[@catnaping]

Absolute bollox, undoubtedly the UDR was utilised by FRU but it was much further up the food chain. FRU was more aligned to a power base in Whitlehall and Millbank than any agency within the province.

[@JW-yy2ey]

MRF were

[@danieldonovan5939]

Totally wrong

[@robdevenney]

As others have already said.. absolute balls! FRU was most definately not staffed by anyone from Northern Ireland for the simple reason MI5, 14th Intel, The Shed @ Aldergrove (if you know you know) viewed most local Army personel as a security risk regardless of where they were originally from. The rumour at the time (doubt that it actuallly happed) was that the PIRA was actually sending volunteers to join the UDR to gather intel on the regiment itself and any other info they could get their hands on. I know of several soldiers that served in Northern Ireland in the 80s and 90s with various regiments that kept the UDR at arms length due to these rumours and I also know many ex UDR men who hated the Loyalist paramilitaries as much as the Nationalists / Republicans and wanted to serve and protect their country the right way who were pulled in for questioning and security checks while being totally innocent and unrelated to any wrong doing such as paramilitary involvement . Not saying there wasn't Loyalist killers in the UDR during the Troubles as there was but nothing to do with the FRU.. they were totally a law onto themselves controlled at high level locally and by London and staffed with not staffed by UDA / UVF men under the guise of being UDR.

[@kokobwild2413]

how can i donate this channel some money?

[@michaelahern6821]

Tom clueless king what a joke he was.....

[@Aindriuh]

A classic case of someone promoted above his level of incompetence.

[@michaelahern6821]

@@Aindriuh He once said " the ira are a diminished force" ....less than 48 hours later half dozen soldiers killed...that was his fault..

[@dominicseanmccann6300]

That's why he was jogged 'over the water'....halfwit city; " i say old chap; you a taig or a prod...?"

[@michaelahern6821]

@@dominicseanmccann6300 I'm a " taig"

[@dominicseanmccann6300]

@@michaelahern6821 well, so am i, apparently!

[@anntaylor4247]

I struggled to hear dialogue because of the awful, unnecessary background music. Had to give up watching.

[@nigelkent789]

I had a copy of a book called the pegasus files it's about sas hit squads driving in to catholic and protestant areas and shooting innocent people to cause sectarian strife they were also murdering volunteers from the Republic and burying them in a mass grave I've tried to find another copy of this book and can't it was written by an ex sas man who was involved in the killing he even pointed out mass graves

[@ATroubledLand]

Was that unit called MRF do you remember?

[@TheNinyo77]

@@ATroubledLand they had quite a few ,mrf ,fru , etc then after a few of their antics where getting spotted they just colluded with the loyalist paramilitaries who before collusion has been picking up drunks and college kids and mutilating them before murdering them , these fru /mrf directed them to anyone they wanted killed ,it was common knowledge , as far back as the laundry van in twinbrook etc ,that the mrf found it more difficult to blend in so turned to the other scumbags .

[@ATroubledLand]

@@TheNinyo77 I can't find anything on here by that name though it's all spys and espionage , all drama though. Maybe it's called something else but with Pegasus within it - i'll keep looking for you.

[@TheNinyo77]

@@ATroubledLand they where called the SRU , But changed name in 1972 , driving around catholic areas shooting anyone they chose too , women ,men etc didn't matter too them , they where formed to fight just one side of the community ,the side that was attacked first !!!! 39th infantry group ,that's who mrf was spawned from .

[@nigelkent789]

@@ATroubledLand it was baught out in the eighties when Thatcher was in power so it was probably suppressed I've tried to find it my self but it was definitely called the pegasus files and there mo was to shoot innocent people on both sides as well as spy and catch volunteers for execution there was a section of photographs of one of the SAS pointing to a grave with about so he said 30 people he all so said they seemed to be drugged and this came from the top of the British army

[@robertwoods-dc4wo]

Patreon class

[@nigelhennerley9608]

Jane Winter speaks with great truth.

[@michaeleire6951]

I don't blame the people who were compromised say 50 % were vulnerable people . Brits were trying and did have the IRA killing each other. Special branch used to use school exams to see who was "slow" autistic spectrum that sort horrible shxt i thought only happened in pre mandela south Africa

[@RyanBrown-nx8dw]

I agree. I'll condem the killing of any innocent people from loyalists or nationalists. But all u get is outright denial from the IRA or they just say that the British were an aggressive occupying power which technically they are lol. I'm aware of the history. But u don't hear about the150 RUC guys that were killed, I think alot of them were just doin there job. And what about all the casualties in the regular army who were trying to restore order an d were also just doin there jobs, all these people had fathers and mothers too. I'm well aware what the British were doing lol. They helped write the book on that kind of warfare people but the IRA wanted a war. The English gave them one.... dont start something u won't finish

[@RyanBrown-nx8dw]

And I'm seriously sorry about all the innocent people who were killed

[@mickdunne981]

Both sides were as bad as each other

[@RyanBrown-nx8dw]

@@mickdunne981 both sides are guilty as sin... but that was war and a particularly brutal one. The ira doesn't get to hide behind british law because it's convenient for them to do so they wanted a war they got one.. and the British couldn't win the war if they stayed within the law, they played dirty znd got away with it I would of pulled the same tactics... u can't just let the ira blow up everything in sight

[@jimorr5580]

That's tories for you rotten to the core

[@stephenholmes1036]

Labour did the same

[@jimorr5580]

@@stephenholmes1036 There just red tories no Labour Party now

[@24389234]

You fight fire with fire.

[@UncomplicatedFellow]

No you fight fire with water, or earth if you have too. Fighting fire with fire just leaves everyone burned.

[@damienholden2132]

The state big Gerry Knows come out you Black And Tans london bubble

[@Genetulsa1]

I am American 🇺🇸 and I applaud any group of people who want to be free from an oppressive regime.

[@Sotsufferer]

Bin laden would be proud 😉

[@paulanthonygreen8048]

Youd better clap for the vietcong then forcing you Americans out.

[@den264]

I can presume that you are not an Evangelical nutcracker. Americans in general do support nations who are under the suppression of dictators etc. With the one exception, Israel. For some strange reason they fail to see the suppression and subjugation of six million Palestinians, who are targeted by the IDF on a regular basis. The Israel right wing call it "mowing the grass" Even military operations like "cast lead" where over fourteen hundred innocent civilians were murdered in Gaza over a three week period fails to register in the collective consciences of the people in the USA

[@anthonyrussell7406]

That's why as a proud irish man I respect the afghani and iraqi people, u guys fucked up

[@jamesbailey8291]

Hypocrisy of the USA who funded terrorists in Ireland with noraid for years. Then as soon as it happens to them don't like it and they go to war on terror. DUH

[@markwalsh2112]

1 Island 1 Nation

[@geoffirwin3952]

Is it aye

[@michaelohalloran2800]

dived and concur.Thats what the British do.From day one.

[@NYCfrankie]

Divide and conquer

[@jackietreehorn5561]

@@NYCfrankie dived in the pool and agreed he said lol

[@NYCfrankie]

@@jackietreehorn5561 i literally just LOL'd reading that

[@jackietreehorn5561]

@@NYCfrankie I'm here to please.....sure it's hard to beat a bitta jesting

[@mickymondo7463]

@@NYCfrankie Dyslexia LURES KO

[@whitemountainapache3297]

We showed the PIRA. We showed them ... We are the Kings of Glory! Huuuurrrraaaaaggggghhhhhhhhh!!!

[@jacquiewalton1355]

We showed Mick Roach and his cronies

[@jacquiewalton1355]

John Toner Sun 31 Dec 2023 at 07:00 Ex-UDA kingpin Johnny Adair believes the IRA were the most effective “guerrilla army” of all time and admitted he wouldn’t have the courage of the Hunger Strikers. Convicted terror chief Adair (60) has also fondly remembered narrowly escaping jail with his nipples intact after a prison officer attempted to remove his jewellery with a hacksaw. Speaking to career criminal and anti-Islam hate preacher Tommy Robinson on his podcast, Adair was full of praise for his deadly enemies of the past and revealed he would have refused to go on hunger strike for his cause. Robinson says: “I’ve seen the IRA described as the best guerrilla warfare army there has ever been”, to which Adair says: “And they were, that’s a fact and I’m not scared to say that, I’ll not tell a lie, of course they were. “Their bombmaking technology was a step ahead of the British Army, the army tried to keep ahead of them and the IRA was always in front. “Even the Hunger Strikers, I grudgingly respect them men too, they starved themselves to death for a political cause, dedication at the highest level. Learn more “Now I’m dedicated, and I knew one day I could lose my life and the IRA would get me, and I accepted that because I didn’t know what day it would be. “These hunger strikers, death was staring themmuns in the face for 60-odd days. If I was asked to give my life on hunger strike? No I wouldn’t do it, I wouldn’t have been as brave to do that.