Seán Garland

Seán Garland ( born March 7, 1934 in Dublin) is a veteran of the Northern Irish republican movement.

IRA

Garland joined the IRA in 1953. The following year, he was recruited by the British Army, but only to collect information on the British forces in Northern Ireland. He helped the IRA to a large part of the arsenal of Gough Barracks in County Armagh, which they seized during a raid in June 1954.

The action concerned the preparation of the Border Campaign, which was also Seán Garland participated. In 1957, right at the beginning, he was on a base of the Royal Ulster Constabulary severely wounded and arrested during the attack. In this guided operation which he Fergal O'Hanlon and Seán South died. After his release from prison in Mountjoy Prison in Dublin, which is called in the Irish Republic, in 1959, he was interned until August 1962.

Divisions

The Border Campaign was a failure, mainly because the IRA be deceived is to have the people of Ireland behind. As a consequence of the failure of the project investigated many Republicans seeking new ways and turned to the Marxist ideology, including Garland. Accordingly, he joined the Official IRA, when the IRA 1969/1970 split. In the Party Official Sinn Féin, the political wing of OIRA, he went up quickly.

Mid -1970s to violent elements separated by the OIRA and called themselves the Irish National Liberation Army. Between the two groups, a bloody feud, during which Garland 1975 victim of INLA - assassination was relaxing. He survived the attack just barely.

From Official Sinn Féin was after several name changes, the Workers Party, which still exists today and its Chairman Garland in 2000. The Workers Party is understood still as Communist Party and representatives of all the workers of Ireland; she entertained at the time good connections to the CPSU. According to an article in the Sunday Times, Seán Garland has also held the rank of Chief of Staff of the (now inactive ) Official IRA since 1998.

Under Suspicion

In October 2005, Garland was arrested in Belfast: The judicial authorities of the United Kingdom and the United States accuse him of being involved in an international money laundering ring that has brought alleged North Korean Super dollar on European currency markets in circulation. The United States provided an extradition request against Garland for foreign exchange offense. He was released on bail, but did not appear at a hearing date regarding his extradition. On 1 December 2005 then issued an arrest warrant against him.