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#REDIRECT [[Gibraltar shootings]]
 
 
On 6 March 1988 three unarmed members of the [[Irish Republican Army]], [[Sean Savage]], [[Dan McCann]] and [[Mairead Farrell]] were shot dead on the street in Gibraltar by the British Army elite [[Special Air Service]] in an operation termed [[Operation Flavius]] by the British.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
==Resources, Notes==
 
===Spinprofiles Resources===
 
 
 
*Miller, David and Dave Maguire, (1988) '[http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/1/10/Truth.pdf The Truth on the Rock]', ''Irish America'', November : 22-28.
 
* David Miller and Dave Maguire '[[The Truth on the Rocks]]',''Magill'', February 1989, p. 9-16.
 
*Miller, David (1989) '[[The Damage Was Done]]', ''Magill'', April : 16-29. Download PDF of original [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/7/79/Damage.pdf Here]'
 
*[[The British Media and Gibraltar]] extract from David Miller ''Don't Mention the War: Northern Ireland, Propaganda and the Media'', London: Pluto Press, 1994, p. 42-50 - reproduced by permission of the author.
 
===Further reading===
 
Myrna Reid Grant '[http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=KqQVxpv1fyk9FyBkp5BDnpmYR4CxWsVQ0MsFSbnhQJDjPmqC898y!-1845046985!-950397748?docId=95224366 Gibraltar Killings: British Media Ethics]' ''Journal of Mass Media Ethics'', Vol. 7, 1992.
 
 
 
==Notes==
 
<references/>
 
 
 
 
 
[[Category:Northern_Ireland]] [[Category:Spooks]]
 
[[Category:British_Military_Intelligence]]
 
[[Category:Counterinsurgency]]
 
[[Category:Police]][[Category:British_Propaganda]][[Category:Psychological_Warfare]]
 
[[Category:MI5]][[Category:MI6]]
 

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