Pubdate: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 Source: Irish Independent (Ireland) Copyright: Independent Newspapers (Ireland) Ltd Contact: http://www.independent.ie/ Author: John Devine, North Editor IRA PLOT `TO KILL DRUG DEALERS IN CONTROL MOVE' THE IRA plans to shoot three drug dealers in the next few days, the North Human Rights Bureau has warned. IRA units have been given the go-ahead to execute two dealers based in Dundalk/Newry and another from north Belfast, the NIHRB said last night. A spokesman for the bureau claimed the IRA were trying to take complete protective control of the drugs trade within the nationalist community in the North. A similar charge was last night made by lawyer Alban Maginness, a senior member of the SDLP, who last night accused republicans of trying to ``instil terror'' in Catholic communities in the North. He castigated the IRA after a young man was abducted from a pub in north Belfast, severely beaten and dumped on the roadside. Mr Maginness said it was ``self-evident'' these ``punishment beatings'' could be turned off and on by republicans as the occasion demanded. It is a republican policy ``calculated to instil terror in people and to exercise control over people in the community and is something which the community itself has got to resist,'' he said. Mr Maginness said Sinn Fein should support human rights by condemning these attacks and calling for them to cease. - --- MAP posted-by: Greg