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| Phil Miller |
An “IRA unit” supposedly caught red-handed by Britain’s defence secretary during his army career was not prosecuted, casting doubt over his dramatic account of the incident.
Ben Wallace served as a Scots Guards officer in Belfast in 1992 and told The Sun he was decorated for capturing an IRA gang that had planted a bomb.
Ahead of Remembrance Sunday in 2020, he briefed Britain’s biggest tabloid how his patrol found a sweet jar “filled up with Semtex plastic explosives and ball bearings, with wires coming out of it…primed and ready to kill.”
Five or six men suspected of handling the bomb were captured by the patrol in a pursuit “which involved jumping over fences and things like that”, Wallace claimed in the article.
In an earlier radio interview with the BBC’s Nick Robinson, he said: “We caught an IRA active service unit who was about to throw a rather large bomb at the patrol. And we didn’t just catch the person moving it, we caught the bomb makers – the whole shebang.”
Ben Wallace served as a Scots Guards officer in Belfast in 1992 and told The Sun he was decorated for capturing an IRA gang that had planted a bomb.
Ahead of Remembrance Sunday in 2020, he briefed Britain’s biggest tabloid how his patrol found a sweet jar “filled up with Semtex plastic explosives and ball bearings, with wires coming out of it…primed and ready to kill.”
Five or six men suspected of handling the bomb were captured by the patrol in a pursuit “which involved jumping over fences and things like that”, Wallace claimed in the article.
In an earlier radio interview with the BBC’s Nick Robinson, he said: “We caught an IRA active service unit who was about to throw a rather large bomb at the patrol. And we didn’t just catch the person moving it, we caught the bomb makers – the whole shebang.”
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Personally, I dont much care if he keeps his phoney award. So long as Ben Wallace holds a medal for gallantry, for events that never actually happened, makes a mockery out of the honour's system. Wallace also supports 2 other soldiers under his command who murdered Peter McBride for carrying a coffee jar bomb that never existed. Worse still, the 2 murdering bastards stopped, searched, then released Peter McBride before mudering him. Wallace is also one of the driving forces behind the push for an amnesty for all Brit killers. Medals do not give spineless runts a spine, they are what they are. What is the real story behind Andy McNab's the most decorated SAS runt out there? We at least knoiw he writes great fiction, Wallace isn't as good at it. So when you see an exBrit with medals --question what the true story is behind it --who suffered injustice so they can pull each others dicks.
ReplyDeleteAndy McNab aka Steve Mitchell completely fucked up his patrol and lied his arse off, that's been well established by now. But nowhere near the 'most decorated SAS runt', that's our own Paddy Mayne who was actually the most decorated Brit soldier of WWII. They denied him 3 VC's due to jealousy, so I believe your right, it completely destroys the honour system. (The second series of Rogue Heroes will be about Mayne's exploits if anyone's interested)
DeleteSteve, Thanks for the correction. If jealousy can deprive a worthy candidate of a medal then cronyism can reward an unworthy one. I think the Paras cultivated and revelled in the contempt they drew from other regiments -it was confirmation to them of how elite they were (only in their minds).
DeleteThey totally did and still do. They don't even refer to themselves as soldiers only as Paras. They are the equivalent of Pitt Bulls raised by a malicious owner who beats them, and yet someone decides they'd make good guide dogs. Fuck that they are never to be trusted.
DeleteSure, they're all liars the whole cabhal. A certain Captain Mike Jackson was the British Army's press officer in 1971. He was also the right hand man of Brigadier Frank Kitson who had his own private army namely the First Battalion Parachute Regiment which gunned down eleven unarmed civillians, in icluding a Priest, in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast between the 9th and 11th August 1971. Captain Jackson then began his tissue of lies for the press, barely able to keep a straight face. He told the media the murdered ..men were all members of an IRA unit who the "army" had killed in a shootout. This was a lie of the highest magnitude and Captain Jackson went on some years later to head the entire British Army!!
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The Paras are held in contempt by most of the BA though.
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