[Operation Flavius] Eckert, Nicholas.

Fatal encounter [The Story of the Gibraltar Killings].

Dublin, Poolbeg, 1999. 20 cm. vii, 288 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very Rare !

Operation Flavius was a military operation in which three members of a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) cell were shot dead by undercover members of the British Special Air Service (SAS) in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988. The three—Seán Savage, Daniel McCann, and Mairéad Farrell who were members of Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade — and were believed to be mounting a car bomb attack on British military personnel in Gibraltar. Plain-clothed SAS soldiers approached them in the forecourt of a petrol station, then opened fire, killing them. All three were found to be unarmed, and no bomb was discovered in Savage’s car, leading to accusations that the British government had conspired to murder them. An inquest in Gibraltar ruled that the SAS had acted lawfully, while the European Court of Human Rights held that, although there had been no conspiracy, the planning and control of the operation was so flawed as to make the use of lethal force almost inevitable. The deaths were the first in a chain of violent events in a fourteen-day period. (Source: Wikipedia – Warning: This is only a short part of the Wikipedia-article !)

• Keywords: Assassination · Catalogue Irish History Four – Irish Postwar History & Administration · Catalogue Irish History Six – General Irish History · Irish History · Political violence · Special forces (Military science)
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853718378
• Inventory Number: 100620AB

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