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Undercover British army unit ‘saved life’ of Ulster loyalist leader Johnny Adair

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Former soldier’s book reveals how assassination bid was thwarted by ramming a surveillance van into a motorbike used by two UDA hitmen

One of the most secretive and controversial units of the British army saved notorious loyalist terrorist Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair from assassination during a violent feud in Northern Ireland, an undercover soldier reveals this weekend.

In a unique insight into the undercover war against loyalist and republican terror suspects in the early 21st century, the army “spy” also discloses how the Real IRA wrongfooted a covert army squad, allowing the terror group to elude surveillance and murder a civilian worker at a Territorial Army base.

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