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Article: He's a 20-stone illinois trucker who owes a fortune to the taxman. but david rupert is also the man believed to have infiltrated the terrorist group behind the omagh bomb. now the secrets he uncovered could bring the real ira to its knees and help pave the way for lasting peace in northern ireland.
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- November 24, 2001
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To betray, you must first belong, reflected Kim Philby in 1967,
shortly after he'd been caught spying for the Soviets. No doubt
David G. Rupert, a 50-year-old American, would share such a
sentiment. Rupert will testify in a Dublin court in the next few
months against Michael McKevitt, allegedly a former Provisional IRA
quartermaster - the man who ran the Provos' arms supplies - and now
thought to be the leader of the Real IRA (RIRA). The breakaway
Republican group is responsible for, among others, the massacre at
Omagh of 29 people, the MI6 rocket attack of September 2000, the
attack on the BBC headquarters in March this year and the recent car
bomb in Birmingham.
Rupert's testimony could ...