McGrath, you are willing to condemn Israeli soldiers on much more slender evidence.
Of course he was not convicted. That is the point.
Despite damning evidence the investigation into him was stopped for political reasons, and covered up.
Irish Times yesterday.
"The IRA did not admit the attack, although no one has ever seriously questioned that it was responsible. It attempted to issue a warning from nearby Dungiven, but was unable to do so because one of its bombings had damaged the telephone exchanges."
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0824/breaking5.html
The bomb was packed with nails for maximum human damage.

I tried to start this discussion in the Clerical Abuse thread.
He had murdered three children and escaped justice because he was a priest, and allowed to continue his activities for the rest of his mercifully short life..
The priest was known to be active in the local IRA.
Irish Times today.
"THE LIKELY involvement by a Catholic priest in the killing of nine innocent civilians in Claudy, Co Derry, as part of the Provisional IRA's bombing campaign, represented an appalling moral, social and security prospect in 1972. The response by senior RUC officers, with the cooperation of the British government and members of the Catholic hierarchy, was to "render harmless a dangerous man" by having him transferred out of Northern Ireland."
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0825/1224277541451.html