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By Diana Rusk
25/09/09
ASSASSINATION PLAN: The IRA wanted to shoot Brian Faulkner dead on this stretch of road between Seaforde and Clough, Co Down. Inset, Mr Faulkner and ex-IRA prisoner Gerry Bradley PICTURE: Mal McCann

The IRA planned to murder Unionist leader Brian Faulk-ner by opening fire on his car with submachine guns, a new book has revealed.
Had the plot succeeded, the former Stormont prime minister would have become the most senior political figure in Ireland to be assassinated since Michael Collins.

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