//They are just thugs and gangs carrying out these thefts not paramilitaries//
As you are aware of who the suspects are perhaps you can explain where, apart fom NORAID, did PIRA get the money to fund their arms and explosives during the troubles.
As the gullible might believe their inventory was handed over to a Canadian independent overseer. What a lot of the hand over was nothing much better than arms from Erskine Childers private yacht. 900 German Mauser rifles and other obsolete munitions.
In the latter stages of the most recent troubles the British MOD realised that PIRA were getting better arms than most of the Army had in the province.
American M16 rifles, Semtex from Libya and worst of all one or may be two Barret . 50cal high powered long range sniping rifles. A weapon that,at the time,only BritishSpecial Forces could dremof gettingtheir hands on. One of the last British soldiers killed in Northern Ireland was a young Gunner from the RHA who was killed on checkpoint duty from a shot taken over a mile away. It was then,that it was ,discovered what the PIRA possessed.
Arms and ammunition long with top quality P.E. was highly expensive.
It was financed by daylight Bank Robberys all over Ireland.
These Paramilitaries were the same gang of cowardly thugs who knee capped women and young boys as a reprisals for informing and working for the British.