Brian Keenan (Irish republican) (English Wikipedia)

Cusack, Jim (30 November 2014). "The Provos and its 'loony chief' who still dictate to SF". Irish Independent. Retrieved 12 November 2019. It is said he was brought onto the Army Council in the 1990s by Brian Keenan, the hard-line IRA Chief of Staff among whose policies was the genocide of Protestants living in Border areas

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Louise Jefferson (17 May 2007). "Loughgall: 20 years on". Irish Democrat. Retrieved 23 September 2007.

Jack Holland (16 December 1998). "IRA puts on a hard face". The Irish Echo. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2007.

Suzanne Breen (24 September 2006). "Veteran IRA man resigns from Army Council". Sunday Tribune. Archived from the original on 16 November 2007. Retrieved 23 September 2007.

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"Mastermind of IRA bombing campaigns who became the organisation's negotiator over decommissioning". The Telegraph. 21 May 2008. Retrieved 12 November 2019. After the IRA resumed its truce in 1997, Sinn Fein helped negotiate a 1998 peace accord that proposed the total disarmament of the IRA by mid-2000. Keenan, who replaced Thomas "Slab" Murphy as the IRA's chief of staff in 1998, quickly ruled out this prospect, arguing that the group would disarm only in co-operation with a future all-Ireland government...the onset of cancer which forced (Keenan) to step down from the Army Council in 2002.

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Jack Holland (16 December 1998). "IRA puts on a hard face". The Irish Echo. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2007.
Suzanne Breen (24 September 2006). "Veteran IRA man resigns from Army Council". Sunday Tribune. Archived from the original on 16 November 2007. Retrieved 23 September 2007.