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How the SAS tracked a notorious IRA sniper to a secluded thorn bush

How the SAS tracked a notorious IRA sniper to a secluded thorn bush
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A SAS commando tells Sam Kiley how the imperative was to try and take Bernard McGinn alive in 1997 in order not to jeopardise political peace negotiations going on behind the scenes

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