[tom8517]

I've never disputed that members of the South Armagh IRA did the killings at Kingsmill. The persistent rumor, that becomes more and credible as time goes by, is that Kingsmill , as well as the murders of a nationalist family days before were both manipulated by British military intelligence. This does not in any way excuse the men who pulled the triggers. But the fact the British government acted as the puppet masters in the willful murder of British citizens to achieve their political ends speaks volumes.

You can't dismiss the past record of your government in Ireland. the whole sorry mess that became the troubles is the direct result of decades, perhaps centuries, of British misrule. The Orangemen were planted in Ireland by the crown. The Crown used them as a cudgel to suppress the native Irish for centuries. When the economic and strategic importance of north east Ireland diminished, the loyalists became a junk yard dog whose owners no longer had a need for them.

The north became Britain's dirty little secret. When it finally caught fire in the late '60s the British government's response was brutal and clumsy. If the IRA are monsters, then British policy is the Doctor Frankenstein that created them.

Your contention that the IRA had no right to carry the war to England is typical British arrogance. You made this mess. British colonialism populated graveyards in every corner of the globe with people whose only crime was wanting their country back.