Direct Action Against Drugs

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The Direct Action Against Drugs (DAAD) was an underground terrorist organization in Northern Ireland that used vigilante justice against drug dealers. The group is responsible for the murder of a number of drug dealers and was seen as the front line of the Provisional IRA (PIRA). When the PIRA announced a ceasefire on August 31, 1994, the new organization was supposed to ensure that the armed fighters remained in readiness. In 1995, the new organization collected information on the drug dealers selling drugs to Northern Ireland's Catholic community. The head of her homicide squad is said to have been Kevin McGuigan. Gerard Davison, who was murdered in May 2015, was considered a leader of the DAAD . The group allegedly murdered Kevin McGuigan, who was believed to have been responsible for the murder of Davison, in revenge for his August 2015 murder. The organization became a burden on the PIRA in 2005 as McGuigan was considered very quick-tempered and unpredictable. McGuigan's dispute with a long-established family in the Irish Republican resulted in him being excluded from the organization and punished by a punishment unit with gunshots in the feet, knees, hands and arms, which signaled the end of the DAAD.

The Republican Action Against Drugs (RAAD), which was also founded in 2008 by former PIRA members, can be seen as the successor organization to the DAAD . The RAAD first confessed to a bomb attack in Derry in April 2009 . The organization's first fatality was Andy Allen, an alleged drug dealer from Derry. In 2012, the RAAD announced that it had joined forces with other terrorist organizations in Northern Ireland.

Attacks attributed to the DAAD from 1995 to 1999

  • December 1995
    • Martin McCrory - Small dealer who was murdered at his home in Turf Lodge , West Belfast.
    • Chris Johnston - 38 year old man murdered on his street, Ormeau Road.
    • Francis Collins - former member of the IRA who was murdered in his chip shop in New Lodge in north Belfast.
  • January 1996
    • Ian Lyons - died the day after he was shot in his parked car in Lurgan .
  • September 1996
    • Séan (John) Devlin - murdered on Friendly Street in a market in south Belfast.
  • February 1998
    • Brendan Campbell - a 30 year old convicted drug dealer who was shot dead in South Belfast.
  • May 1999
    • Brendan Joseph Fegan - a 24-year-old who was known to be Northern Ireland's main drug dealer. He was murdered by two shooters with 16 shots in the Hermitage Bar in Newry . Security circles in Northern Ireland hold Kevin McGuigan directly responsible for this murder.
  • June 1999
    • Paul Downey - a 37-year-old convicted drug dealer from Newry, County Down , who was murdered by the DAAD.

See also

Individual evidence

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