Chapter 218 Security Company

After spending two more days with the Hearst sisters in the Billou Castle, Barron sent them back to America.

Although during this period, Barron could feel that the two sisters wanted to take the relationship further with him.

But Barron has had too many things to deal with recently, and for the time being he is not in the mood to hug two girls at once. He can only do it to both of them in private. Well, he has a good impression of them, but because of moral constraints, he needs to restrain himself.

In this regard, Barron described himself as a "green tea man"...

As for Alia, after Nigel flew to Asia to personally confirm whether the information she said was accurate, Barron sent two female security guards to watch her 24 hours a day. After strengthening the security force of Billu Castle, he temporarily left here and went to London to deal with things.

Before leaving Northern Ireland, Barron also took time to meet some members of the local parliament.

The British base of the Protector Military Company is located in the Ruby Castle, and it will be expanded in the future. The entire base will almost double the area of ​​the Bilu Castle.

Because in addition to continuing to provide training for personnel going to Iraq, we will also increase security business in the UK.

To this end, they specially registered the Protector Security Company in the UK. The head of the company is Kenan Merton, the former senior vice president who was poached from G4S.

Barron plans to first obtain some security and policing outsourcing orders from Northern Ireland.

You have to know that in the whole of Britain, Northern Ireland is still threatened with attacks from time to time, even after 2000.

I believe many people have heard of the Irish Republican Army. Until now, this organization has posed a threat to British rule in Britain, especially in Northern Ireland.

When it comes to the Irish Republican Army, different groups of people have two completely opposite views.

Among the Irish people, the Irish Republican Army is generally regarded as a national hero who resisted British colonial rule, promoted national independence and the unification of the North and the South.

But on the other side, in the British region including Northern Ireland, the Irish Republican Army is notorious for its blood debts.

From 1968 to July 2002, a total of 3,600 people were killed in violent conflicts in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, with the IRA and other groups responsible for at least 2,000 of those deaths.

Many people in Northern Ireland seem to have become accustomed to cultural differences, political conflicts and gunfire.

Earl Mountbatten, the British Admiral who proposed the famous "Mountbatten Plan" in history, died in an assassination by the Irish Republican Army.

They also planned an assassination attempt on Mrs. Thatcher.

Therefore, the government has always listed the IRA as a terrorist organization.

The history of the Irish Republican Army can be traced back to the first half of the last century. In April 1916, the famous "Easter Rising" broke out in Dublin.

Due to the disparity in strength, the uprising ultimately ended in failure.

The Irish Volunteers suffered heavy losses at the time, and most of the leaders of the Irish independence movement were arrested and executed by the British government. The armed struggle for Irish independence was forced to go underground.

In order to adapt to the new situation of struggle, in 1919, the remaining Irish Volunteers were reorganized into the more tightly organized Irish Republican Army. This was the first documented appearance of the Irish Republican Army on the historical stage.

After the establishment of the Irish Republican Army, it organized many assassinations and sneak attacks against the British police and army. Thousands of British people lost their lives, making the situation in Ireland difficult to control for a while.

The British government had to compromise and finally agreed in 1921 that the 26 counties in southern Ireland would become independent as the "Irish Free State", which was also the predecessor of the Republic of Ireland.

But at this time, England still occupied the six northern counties and remained in England in the form of Northern Ireland.

After Ireland officially gained independence in 1937, the Irish Republican Army still refused to abandon its line of armed struggle, announcing that it would continue to fight for the unification of the North and the South and engaging in violent activities.

The IRA's activities covered the entire island of Ireland, becoming a common destabilizing factor for the newly established Republic of Ireland and Britain.

In 1939, the IRA was banned by both governments.

After World War II, as people longed for peace after the war, the Irish Republican Army gradually lost its living ground and inevitably declined. By the mid-1960s, the organization had basically disintegrated.

However, with the rise of the civil rights movement and the intensification of ethnic conflicts in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s, the Irish Republican Army revived and rose again, announcing that it would continue to fight for the unification of the North and the South.

However, due to differences in the line of struggle, the resurgent IRA split into the Official IRA and the Provisional IRA. The Official IRA gradually abandoned the line of armed struggle and instead supported seeking the unification of Ireland through political action.

Subsequently, the Provisionals became the main Irish Republican Army. They were extremely left-wing in their thinking, continued to insist on armed struggle, and carried out a series of assassinations.

The most famous of these are the assassinations of Mountbatten and Thatcher.

On August 27, 1979, the 79-year-old retired Earl Mountbatten was targeted by the Irish Republican Army while on vacation in Ireland. As a prestigious figure in British upper society and internationally at the time, a 50-pound bomb was installed on the yacht he was riding on.

After the bomb was detonated, Mountbatten's legs were broken and he eventually died of his injuries at the age of 79.

Subsequently, the Irish Republican Army announced that it was responsible for the incident.

On the same day that Mountbatten was assassinated, the IRA launched a raid on British troops marching at Warren Point in County Down, Northern Ireland. 18 British soldiers were killed in the conflict, including 16 paratroopers and 1 British lieutenant colonel.

The attack, known as the Warren Point attack, was the deadliest of the conflict in Northern Ireland.

The assassination of Mountbatten and the Warren Point attack put the IRA on the map.

At that time, Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher had just come to power as British Prime Minister. Known as the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher advocated a tough stance against the Irish Republican Army.

Britain began to strictly control the Northern Ireland border, and for a time, the activities of the Irish Republican Army were greatly restricted.

In 1984, the Irish Republican Army, already addicted to brutality, decided to create even greater trouble for the British.

They set a bomb at the Conservative Party conference in Brighton, England, in an attempt to kill Margaret Thatcher.

The terrorist attack killed five people on the spot, but Mrs. Thatcher survived.

Although the Irish Republican Army suffered a fierce counterattack from the British government afterwards, the British government was still unable to fundamentally solve the problem of this troublemaker.

In 1993, for the sake of regional peace, Britain and Ireland jointly launched the Northern Ireland peace process, but it has been stranded because the Irish Republican Army refused to disarm.

Just when the Northern Ireland peace process was on the verge of collapse, Sinn Fein, the political organization of the Irish Republican Army, stood up.

In October 2001, Sinn Fein called on all IRA factions to lay down their arms, but only a few responded.

It was not until 2005, two years later, that the Irish Republican Army officially ordered to stop armed struggle and join the peace process under the mediation and good offices of the international community.

As early as December 1999, the United Kingdom, Ireland and the relevant parties in Northern Ireland finally reached the Northern Ireland Peace Agreement.

The agreement is the biggest breakthrough in the Northern Ireland peace process since its inception.

The agreement stipulates that the Irish government will no longer make territorial claims on Northern Ireland, but it still retains the possibility for the people of Northern Ireland to decide on their own to join the South, thus giving the Irish Republican Army and Sinn Fein a bit of face.

Based on this treaty, the Irish government amended the constitution and formally abolished the provisions claiming territorial sovereignty over Northern Ireland.

In the original time and space, on May 8, 2007, the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein, which had been fighting for decades, finally stood together and formed a new Northern Ireland local autonomy government.

Permanent peace seemed to have arrived.

But what is worrying is that two years later, in 2009, another terrorist attack suspected to be launched by the Irish Republican Army occurred in Britain, which once again cast a shadow on the peace process in Northern Ireland.

Therefore, at this point in time, if there is any place in the whole of Britain where more protector security companies can play a role, Northern Ireland must be the first choice.

In 2003, there is still no decisive breakthrough in the Northern Ireland peace process. Although the Irish Republican Army is no longer as powerful as before, it still threatens Northern Ireland and the whole of Britain.

You know, during the more than 300 years that Britain ruled Ireland, the ethnic composition and religious beliefs of Northern Ireland gradually changed.

Britain has a large number of Protestant immigrants in Northern Ireland, and the proportion of new residents even exceeds that of local Irish people.

The new immigrants were Anglo-Saxons. As descendants of the British, they had a natural aristocratic character and looked down on the Irish whose ancestors made a living by farming.

The Irish people are Celtic and believe in Catholicism.

It is indeed very difficult to merge Northern Ireland, a country where the majority of people are Protestants and of British descent, with the Republic of Ireland, not to mention that hundreds of years of conflict have already left the two sides with many contradictions.

Therefore, in fact, the Irish Republican Army is not welcome in Northern Ireland and is also regarded as a terrorist organization.

It is in this context that Protector Security will be taking on many security projects in Northern Ireland. In negotiations with the local government, the other party is even considering outsourcing part of the policing work to Protector Security.

Of course, in response to this, Protector Security needs to keep its headquarters in Northern Ireland and take over some of the laid-off police officers to create local employment.

Next, Barron plans to continue to invest 20 million pounds in Protector Security Company. In addition to expanding the scale of its Bulugu Castle base, it will also upgrade the security company's personnel and equipment, and even purchase large equipment including coastal patrol boats and helicopters for security needs.