New claim upon Lord Mountbatten's death
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Belfast Telegraph
Fury over claim that IRA did not kill Mountbatten
30 September 2005
A CONTROVERSIAL new book which claims that the IRA did not murder Lord Mountbatten has been dismissed as "nonsense".
The book, Terminate with Extreme Prejudice, by author Richard Belfield, claims that Lord Mountbatten, was killed by another terror group - the INLA.
The book also claims that since the early 1970s there was an agreement in place between the leadership of the IRA and the top brass of the Army in London that the Royal Family was 'off limits'.
But the book was dismissed as "nonsense" today by North Antrim Assembly member Ian Paisley jnr.
Cousin to the Queen, Lord Louis Mountbatten (79), was murdered on August 27, 1979, when a bomb exploded on his fishing boat near his holiday home at Mullaghmore, Sligo.
He was murdered on the same day that 18 soldiers were killed in a bomb attack near Warrenpoint in Co Down.
Terminate With Extreme Prejudice is published by Constable & Robinson and sets out to 'expose the assassination game, its killers and their paymasters'.
Author Richard Belfield is a London-based journalist and film maker.
He argues that throughout the Troubles there was continual dialogue between the Government and republican and loyalist paramilitaries - through back-channels and face-to-face meetings.
