Magee simply refuses to answer these questions, even though many of the facts are known: I won't talk at all about any of the operational detail.
After Bloody Sunday, Magee was one of countless Catholic nationalists rounded up by the British army; he was manhandled and beaten up in what was known as a black room.
Radicalised, Magee joined the Provisional IRA, where his puzzle-solving mind and methodical professionalism got him promoted to engineer — in other words, bomb-maker.
The former Conservative party chair John Gummer, meanwhile, gives the standard view of those on the side of state power: as soon as non-state actors resort to murder, they are beyond the pale.
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