SAS murder bid fails
Last Thursday 16 March two young Andersonstown men,
Dessy Mackin and Bobby Gamble, found themselves victims
of an SAS assassination bid. At the junction of Glen
Road/Rossnareen Avenue in the Andersonstown estate,
Belfast, they were fired upon without warning by
several plain-clothes British soldiers.
Local people say that a British army assassin in plain
clothes and previously driving a civilian car had an
accomplice who ran away when a wounded Bobby Gamble, in
defence of his life, courageously jumped at the gunman
and knocked him to the ground. The gunman's accomplice
hailed another two-man undercover patrol in a vehicle
who immediately raced to the scene.
They opened fire and Dessy Mackin ran off but was
wounded. In a statement the British army later said
that one of their men was shot, but it is widely
believed, and locals support this claim, that the Brit,
if shot at all, was hit by one of his own SAS
colleagues.
Republican News 25 March 1978
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