"The Loyalists bought weapons through Libya too -"

I know, Teribus. But your earlier way of assessing the situation: "US Courts and legal system played their part too in ensuring that the weapons continued to flow, resulting in the deaths of almost 3,500 people over the course of the 'troubles'", seemed to imply that it was these weapons that the US Courts and legal system ensured continued to flow, which resulted in the deaths of (over) 3500 people in the course of the troubles.

I'm sure you must know also, that The good Colonel actually gave the stuff away on occassion.

I'll be fairly interested to see how all of this pans out with the British public, though. We have been so entrenched against him for years, it will certainly be a PR coup if everybody swallows it.

Jim