However, sporadic assassinations continued… or did not, despite Craig’s continued eagerness to fight to the last drop of Protestant militants’ blood. He made what to me still ranks as one of the most extraordinary statements of the entire period, at the right-wing Conservative Monday Club in London on 27 April. In the course of a rambling and often incoherent, but nevertheless widely reported speech, Craig said that he was prepared ‘to shoot to kill’ to keep Ulster British, and went on: ‘When we say force, we mean force. We will only assassinate our enemies as a last desperate resort when we
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