WORLD : IRA Suspects’ Names Sent to Paper

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Northern Ireland’s security forces were hit by another intelligence leak scandal today when a former British soldier sent a newspaper details of 50 Irish Republican Army suspects.

“I was a serving soldier in Northern Ireland. I just thought I would let you see how easy it is to obtain these photographs. I only kept them as a souvenir,” he told the Daily Record newspaper in an anonymous note sent with the list.

The names of more than 200 IRA suspects may have been leaked by British soldiers and policemen to Protestant gangs in a widening security scandal that has angered the Irish government and embarrassed Britain.