Historical Dictionary of Terrorism Third Edition

REJECTION FRONT • 581posed the Good Friday Agreement of 10 April 1998. The RHD firstappeared when it claimed responsibility for the 7 September 1998bombing that killed a Royal Ulster Constabulary officer, FrankieO’Reilly. A further action was the shooting death of a Catholic man,Brian Service, on 31 October 1998, the timing of which appeared tohave been intended to stall the faltering peace talks and to sabotagethe cease-fire being observed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA)and major Ulster militia groups. The RHD also claimed responsibilityfor the murder of Rosemary Nelson, a Catholic human rightslawyer, killed by a car bomb in Lurgan on 15 March 1998.During 2000 the RHD carried out two bombings without causinginjuries or death. During 2001 the RHD carrried out 16 attacks ofwhich seven were shootings, five were attempted bombings, and fourwere successful bombings. The RHD targeted Gaelic Athletic Association(GAA) gyms and soccer fields and Catholic postal workers,taxi drivers, and families living in Protestant areas. The RHD shotto death a Catholic politician, Ciaran Cummings, on 4 July 2001,a Protestant teenager outside a GAA gym on 29 July 2001, and aCatholic journalist, Martin O’Hagan, on 28 September 2001. On 22August 2001 the group attempted to assassinate Sinn Fein leaderMartin McGuiness, who later became deputy first minister of NorthernIreland in May 2007. In 2002 the RHD assassinated one Catholicpostal worker and attempted two pipe bombings, with its last knownattack being an attempted pipe bombing of a Catholic home on 19December 2002. The group used homemade pipe bombs but also hadaccess to grenades and handguns.The RHD appeared at the same time as the Orange Volunteers,and many observers believe that the membership of these two groupsoverlapped. Observers believe that the RHD is a means for membersof the larger Protestant paramilitaries, which have nominallysubscribed to a renunciation of violence, to allow their members tocontinue terrorist attacks on Catholics and Republican targets.REJECTION FRONT. In 1974 the Popular Front for the Liberationof Palestine (PFLP) established the Jebhe al-Qawwa al-Filastiniyyaal-Rafez al Hulul al Istisalam, or Front Rejecting CapitulationistSolutions, to oppose the participation of the Palestine LiberationOrganization (PLO) in any negotiated settlement of the Arab-Israeliconflict. The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine,