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Senior IRA leader dies of cancer

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bbc.co.uk
21-May-2008
        
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A former leading member of the IRA has died. Brian Keenan, who was originally from Swatragh but who lived in west Belfast, had been suffering from cancer for some time. Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said his strong endorsement of the party's strategy was crucial in securing IRA support for the... [read full story]                    

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Leading IRA figure Brian Keenan has died

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Keenan's life illustrates end of revolutionary politics in Northern Ireland

guardian.co.uk
23-May-2008
        

Republicans such as Brian Keenan set out to destroy the state of Northern Ireland and to force Britain to eject the unionists from the union. This project has entirely failed Brian Keenan, an IRA commander behind the bombing of civilian targets in Britain during the Troubles, was given a special...

                   

Brian Keenan, major figure in IRA, dies at 66

iht.com
23-May-2008
        

Brian Keenan, a commanding figure during the Irish Republican Army's long march from war to peace, died Wednesday at age 66. The cause was cancer, said the Sinn Fein party, which announced his death. Keenan of Belfast, Northern Ireland, built up the IRA's arsenal in the 1970s, directed its...

                   

Former IRA leader Keenan dies of cancer

keralanext.com
22-May-2008
        

DUBLIN: Brian Keenan, 66, a commanding figure during the Irish Republican Army's (IRA) long march from war to peace, died of cancer yesterday, the Sinn Fein party announced. Keenan built up the IRA's weapons arsenal in the 1970s, directed its bombing campaign in England, and served on the IRA's...

                   
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Brian Keenan

timesonline.co.uk
22-May-2008
        

IRA man who masterminded the 1970s bombing campaign in London but later played a role in the peace process Brian Keenan was director of IRA operations in England in the mid-1970s. Keenan, who received an 18-year prison sentence in 1980 for conspiring to cause explosions, was also a leading player...

                   

A truly vile and evil man has died

telegraph.co.uk
22-May-2008
        

Keenan, I hope you rot in hellBrian Keenan, who died on Wednesday of cancer aged 66, was a linchpin of the IRA and one of the most ruthless and formidable members of its leadership.I truly hope that he suffered the full horors and pain of cancer, exactly as he had inflicted pain on...

                   

Public enemy No1 dies aged 66

scotsman.com
21-May-2008
        

Published Date: 22 May 2008 BRIAN Keenan, the senior IRA commander once named "the single biggest threat to the British state", has died. The west Belfast-based republican was a key figure in the organisation during the peace process, although he had earlier supported the "ballot box and the...

                   

Obituary: Brian Keenan

guardian.co.uk
21-May-2008
        

Brian Keenan, who has died of cancer aged 66, was one of the leading Irish republicans of his generation, a fiercely committed guerrilla strategist, and a formidable foe of the British state. Earlier, Keenan had travelled the world establishing contacts in East Germany, Lebanon and Syria, and...

                   

Brian Keenan: Mastermind of IRA terror campaigns once regarded as the 'biggest single threat to...

independent.co.uk
21-May-2008
        

The IRA career of Brian Keenan contains a paradoxical duality in that he first helped build up the organisation and then, decades later, helped shut it down. Few outside Irish republican circles will laud his role in the 1970s, when he roamed the world seeking guns for the IRA and masterminded a...

                   

Former IRA leader Brian Keenan dies

reuters.com
21-May-2008
        

By Anne Cadwallader BELFAST (Reuters) - Brian Keenan, a former leader in the IRA who fought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, has died, his close ally Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams said on Wednesday. Born in 1942, Keenan still believed close to his death that the IRA could have won its...

                   

Sinn Fein: Senior IRA figure Brian Keenan has died of cancer in Belfast

k-litefm.com
21-May-2008
        

By: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBLIN, Ireland - The Sinn Fein party says senior IRA commander Brian Keenan has died of cancer. The 66-year-old Belfast native died Wednesday. He was a key figure throughout the Irish Republican Army's epic journey from war to peace. Keenan joined the fledgling...

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