Britain's dirty war.

This article focuses on a public inquiry into the British army and police collusion in murders in Northern Island. According to a report by John Stevens, head of London's Metropolitan Police, published on April 17th, two of the men involved in this murder were agents working for the British army. John has been investigating collusion between the security services and loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland for 4 years. This is his third inquiry. He has taken so long partly because his investigations have been obstructed, he says, by both the Force Research Unit (FRU), the secret army organization that handled agents in Northern Ireland, and the Northern Ireland police, the Royal Ulster Constabulary. John says, for instance, that the FRU warned one of the two agents suspected of involvement in Belfast solicitor Patrick Finucane's murder the night before he was due to be arrested, so he fled. When new plans for his arrest were being finalized, John's offices were burnt down.