半岛电视台的一项调查揭露，一个与被禁恐怖组织有关联的暴力准军事组织，与英国一个右翼学生团体关系密切。
A violent paramilitary linked to a proscribed terror group has close ties to a right-wing student group in the United Kingdom, an Al Jazeera investigation has revealed.
艾伦·内斯比特（Allan Nesbitt）是一名有犯罪前科的人，是阿尔斯特志愿军（UVF）成员，他与英国转折点组织（TPUK）有关联。
Allan Nesbitt, a convicted criminal who is a member of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), is linked to Turning Point UK (TPUK).
我们的调查《合同杀手与极右翼》始于2021年，当时一名半岛电视台卧底记者加入了TPUK。TPUK是美国右翼活动团体美国转折点组织（Turning Point USA）的一个独立分支。TPUK与多名英国保守党高级成员以及英国改革党领导人关系密切。
Our investigation, Contract Killers and the Far Right, began in 2021, when an undercover reporter from Al Jazeera joined TPUK, an independent offshoot of the right-wing US activist group Turning Point USA. TPUK has close ties to several senior British Conservative Party members, as well as to leaders of Reform UK.
TPUK首席执行官杰克·罗斯（Jack Ross）于2023年作为保守党候选人参选。罗斯将半岛电视台的卧底记者介绍给了来自苏格兰格拉斯哥的内斯比特。
TPUK’s CEO Jack Ross stood as a Conservative Party candidate in 2023. Ross introduced Al Jazeera’s undercover reporter to Nesbitt, who is from Glasgow, Scotland.
罗斯明确表示，他与内斯比特有着长期的共同历史。罗斯被我们的卧底记者拍摄到，同意支付内斯比特数千英镑，策划一场假政治集会，旨在展示对解除英国对津巴布韦制裁的支持。
Ross made clear that he and Nesbitt had a long history together. Ross was filmed by our undercover reporter agreeing to pay Nesbitt thousands of pounds to stage a fake political rally designed to show support for the lifting of UK sanctions against Zimbabwe.
罗斯还告诉半岛电视台的卧底人员，只要支付“一定数额”，内斯比特及其联系人就能安排实施身体攻击，并说他们可以“把某人揍得半死。他们可以开始割破某人的脸。那是另一笔钱。他们可以捅某人，”罗斯说。“他们可以开枪打某人。他们可能会杀死某人。”雇凶杀人，被录像拍下。为了验证罗斯关于内斯比特的说法，半岛电视台的卧底人员编造了一个关于与虚构竞争对手发生商业纠纷的故事，称想要“处理”对方。
Ross also told Al Jazeera’s undercover operative that for “a certain amount”, Nesbitt and his contacts could arrange physical attacks, saying they could “kick the f* out of someone. They can start cutting people’s faces up. That’s another amount. They can stab someone,” Ross said. “They can shoot someone. They could kill someone.”Murder for hire, caught on tape To test Ross’s claims about Nesbitt, Al Jazeera’s undercover operative devised a story about a business dispute with a fictional rival they wanted “dealt with”.
在伦敦一家酒店的私人会面中，内斯比特告诉我们的记者，他可以“安排你需要做的任何事”，但“要付出代价”。这包括借助他的UVF联系人杀死那个虚构的人。
In a private meeting in a London hotel, Nesbitt told our reporters he could “arrange whatever you need done”, but “at a price”. This included killing the fictional person with the help of his UVF connections.
“他可以遭遇一次不幸的事故，”内斯比特说，并向半岛电视台确认，那个人将被“解决掉”。
“He can have a bad accident,” Nesbitt said, confirming to Al Jazeera that the person would be “finished”.
“这些婊子是恐怖分子。他们是该死的训练有素的杀手，”内斯比特补充道。内兹比特还声称自己亲手杀过人。
“These cs are terrorists. They’re fing trained killers,” Nesbitt added. Nesbitt also claimed to have personally killed before.
“过去发生过一些事情，当时那样做[做出开枪手势]风险太大，我就拔出一把刀，把那个杂种捅死了，”他说。
“Things have happened in the past where it was too risky to do that [gestures firing a gun], and I’ve just pulled out a knife and stabbed the c* to death,” he said.
在随后的一次视频通话中，内兹比特展示了一把霰弹枪、一把手枪和实弹，以证明他有能力付诸行动。
In a later video call, Nesbitt showed off a shotgun, a pistol, and live ammunition to prove he had the means to follow through.
武器走私 内兹比特说，谋杀所得款项将用于武装北爱尔兰的阿尔斯特志愿军。
Weapons smuggling The money paid for the murder would be used to arm the UVF in Northern Ireland, Nesbitt said.
“所有资金都在苏格兰筹集，物品也在苏格兰购买，然后我们将它们走私到爱尔兰。”据内兹比特称，他参与这种武器走私已有多年。
“All the money gets raised in Scotland and the things get bought in Scotland and we smuggle them into Ireland.”According to Nesbitt, he has been involved in this weapons smuggling for many years.
“正是我们把这些东西走私到爱尔兰，让他们在那里打仗，”他说，指的是“麻烦时期”。该时期始于20世纪60年代末，北爱尔兰的天主教徒和新教徒团体为新教徒占多数的北爱尔兰是否应继续作为英国的一部分，还是加入天主教徒占多数的爱尔兰共和国而发生冲突。
“It’s us that smuggled the stuff into Ireland for them to fight the war in there,” he said, referring to The Troubles During that period, which began in the late 1960s, Catholic and Protestant groups in Northern Ireland fought over whether Protestant-majority Northern Ireland should remain part of the UK or join the Catholic-majority Republic of Ireland.
主张北爱尔兰继续作为英国一部分的人通常被称为亲英派或忠诚派。寻求脱离英国的人通常自称是共和派或爱尔兰民族主义者。
Those in favour of Northern Ireland remaining a part of the UK are widely known as unionists or loyalists. Those seeking to break from the UK usually identify themselves as republicans or Irish nationalists.
据多年来一直在调查该组织的记者帕特丽夏·德夫林称，阿尔斯特志愿军属于新教徒忠诚派阵营，并对“麻烦时期”期间一些最臭名昭著的杀戮和谋杀案负责。
The UVF belonged to the Protestant loyalist side and was responsible for some of the most infamous killings and murders during The Troubles, according to Patricia Devlin, a journalist who has been investigating the group for years.
“1966年至1999年间，阿尔斯特志愿军杀害了500多人，”她告诉半岛电视台。
“Between 1966 and 1999, the UVF killed over 500 people,” she told Al Jazeera.
“他们还犯下了诸如1971年麦格尔克酒吧爆炸大屠杀等暴行，该事件造成15人死亡，以及1974年都柏林和莫纳汉爆炸案，造成33人死亡，”她补充道。
“They went on to commit atrocities such as the 1971 McGurk’s bar bomb massacre, which killed 15 people, and the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings, which killed 33 people”, she added.
但是，在1998年《贝尔法斯特协议》至少在形式上结束“麻烦时期”之后，阿尔斯特志愿军像许多其他组织一样，转变为一个更传统的犯罪团伙。
But after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that at least officially ended the Troubles, the UVF, like many other groups, transformed into a more traditional criminal gang.
“该运动已经变成了毒品帮派，同时仍然使用阿尔斯特志愿军的名字，”德夫林说。
“The movement has turned into drug gangs, while still using the name of the UVF,” Devlin said.
对于英国国家犯罪局前副局长罗伊·麦库姆来说，内斯比特的说法并不令人意外。“北爱尔兰与苏格兰之间的效忠派历史非常深厚且由来已久。
To Roy McComb, former deputy director of the UK’s National Crime Agency, Nesbitt’s claims are no surprise. “The history of loyalism between Northern Ireland [and] Scotland is a very strong and very longstanding one.
“从行动层面看，此前确实有证据表明，枪支曾被走私、情报曾被共享、活动人士曾在两国（苏格兰和北爱尔兰）之间流动。
“Operationally, there’s certainly evidence previously of firearms being trafficked, of intelligence being shared, of activists being moved between the two countries [Scotland and Northern Ireland].
“枪支……只是可以买卖的工具，也可能被贩卖给极右翼。” 极右翼团体 除了与阿尔斯特志愿军的联系，半岛电视台的调查还显示，“转折点英国”与英国其他极右翼煽动者存在关联。这些团体一直处于抗议针对移民和LGBTQ+权利活动的最前沿。
“Firearms … are simply tools that can be sold and that could be sold onto the far right.”Far-right groups Besides links to the UVF, Al Jazeera’s investigation also shows links between Turning Point UK and other far-right agitators in the UK. These include groups that have been at the forefront of protests against migrants and LGBTQ+ rights.
“转折点英国是这类人的‘粉丝’。这些人显然比‘转折点英国’要强硬得多。‘转折点英国’清楚，他们在底部注明‘不允许极右翼’只是为了自我保护，”战略对话研究所高级分析师基兰·奥康纳对半岛电视台表示。
“Turning Point UK are fanboys of these kinds of people. These people are obviously a lot more physically tough than Turning Point UK. Turning Point UK know that they put these little, no far right allowed at the bottom just to protect themselves,” Ciaran O’Connor, senior analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, told Al Jazeera.
他补充道：“他们利用这些事件作为楔子议题，试图动员支持者，攻击对方的信息或含义，并将安置寻求庇护者妖魔化。”
“They use these events as wedge issues upon which to try and mobilise their support and try and attack the message or the meaning of the other side, and demonise the housing of asylum seekers in society,” he added.
一名前阿尔斯特志愿军成员告诉半岛电视台，英国的“极右翼是一只无牙老虎”，但极右翼与阿尔斯特志愿军等团体的联系可能会改变这一局面。
A former member of the UVF told Al Jazeera that the “far right in the UK is a toothless tiger”, but links between the far right and groups like the UVF could change that.
“当你与那些背后策划恐怖活动可能长达40年、至今仍持有武器、仍具备枪击和爆炸能力的个体建立联系时，情况就会改变，”这名前阿尔斯特志愿军成员说。“那你就麻烦了。”
“It changes whenever you make a connection to individuals who are behind a terrorist campaign for probably 40 years, and are still armed, and still have the ability to shoot and bomb,” the former UVF member said. “Then you’re in trouble.”
出于公共安全考虑，半岛电视台已将阿兰·内斯比特及其武器的情况通报苏格兰警方。
Al Jazeera notified Scottish police about Allan Nesbitt and his weapons in the interest of public safety.
杰克·罗斯“完全”否认我们的调查结果，他告诉我们，他对我们卧底记者所说的一切都不是认真的。其他受报道方未回应我们的询问。查看完整的半岛电视台调查报告，请点击此处
Jack Ross denied our findings “completely”, telling us that everything he said to our undercover reporter was not meant seriously. The other parties featured did not respond to our inquiries. See the full Al Jazeera investigation here