Northern Ireland separatists buy weapons from Kosovo Albanian KLA
Dissident groups of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) which carried out terrorist attacks in Northern Ireland at the beginning of March this year, have gathered large quantities of weapons from Eastern Europe, some of them from the arsenal of the Kosovo Liberation Army (OVK), the UK intelligence agencies have said in a statement.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Monday, April 06, 2009
The senior officers of the Northern Ireland Police Service are afraid that the formations of Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA), Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA), and Oglaigh na hEireann (OHN), have at their disposal the funds which enable them to continue their terrorist campaign, the London weekly Sunday Times reports.
Last month these groups killed two British soldiers and one police officer.
According to the Sunday Times, throughout the last three years RIRA has been buying artillery from Albania, for, as assumed, only five US dollars a piece. Some of the weapons were stolen from the Albanian army warehouse, and others were acquired from the former KLA members.
