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has been named as Frank Molloy.

Police said the car failed to stop...

at a roadblock outside Dungannon

around 6:
15 this morning.

An RUC statement said

the driver accelerated...

toward their officers,

who opened fire on the fleeing car...

causing it to swerve off the road.

Also in the car was Paul Sullivan,

an American lawyer and a leading figure...

in the International League

for Civil Liberties.

What's puzzling observers...

is why Mr. Sullivan should have

driven out of Belfast...

in the early hours of the morning

to meet a man...

who the police say

is a terrorist suspect.

This is Ivan Little,

Ulster Television, Dungannon.

With me in the studio to discuss...

the political implications

of today's shooting...

is Mr. Alec Nevin...

who is a Conservative Party spokesman

on Northern Ireland.

Mr. Nevin, earlier, we saw

pictures of Americans...

demonstrating outside

the British embassy in Washington.

Let's make a distinction.

What we saw was a demonstration...

by supporters of the IRA...

Could I finish my question?

The people who give comfort

and weapons...

to the men of violence.

John Ware, Labour MP.

A particularly embarrassing thing,

I would think...

was, of course, the death of

this civil-liberties spokesman...

It's quite clear that people

will be asking the question:

Does this mean the investigation

has hit on a raw nerve...

has revealed some of the things

that have been perpetrated...

by security forces due to

their presence in Northern Ireland?

Is Ms. Jessner coming

down to talk to us today?

- No. She's resting.

- How is she?

All right.

Have you been told any more

about what happened...

on the morning of the shooting?

The only thing that we know is that

Mr. Sullivan has been murdered...

by a member of the security forces...

near Dungannon in a car, a rented car...

with a man called Mr. Molloy.

Did Mr. Sullivan have

Republican sympathies?

- No.

- Was he a member of Noraid?

- Not at all.

- What kind of a man was he, Mr. Sullivan?

The only thing I can say is he was

a very good lawyer and a great fighter...

for the civil rights all over the world

and a marvelous friend.

The British government have

just appointed...

Deputy Chief Constable Kerrigan...

to head up the investigation

on the shooting.

What's your reaction to that?

I've heard that Kerrigan is

a fine investigator of the CID...

but we would have preferred that...

it would have been an independent,

international inquiry.

So you don't have

any confidence in the inquiry?

I've got a certain amount

of skepticism about that.

You said that you were skeptical. Why?

Why will the Kerrigan inquiry

not discover the truth?

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