Formation
The group announced its existence on 1 April 2007, shortly after the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin, as the two largest parties, agreed to share power in the Northern Ireland Assembly. In a statement, the group said:
We have had enough of people telling us what to do - if the opportunity arises we will take out the entire UDA leadership because they are selling us out. Protestant areas are still awash with drugs and we are not going to stand by while so-called loyalists line their pockets.
The group claimed to have drawn-up a "death list" that included:
- Leadership of the Ulster Defence Association
- Ousted Ulster Defence Association commander Johnny Adair
- Alleged Special Branch agents William 'Mo' Courtney and Jim Spence
- Loyalists suspected of being drug dealers
- Leadership of the Continuity Irish Republican Army and Real Irish Republican Army
The Real UFF also claimed to have an arsenal that includes rocket launchers, AK-47 assault rifles, handguns, pipe bombs, coffee-jar bombs and under-car booby-trap devices. They were said by the Sunday Life to be an alliance between former supporters of Gary "Smickers" Smyth and others who had been close to the Shoukri brothers.
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