Adam Busby

Adam Busby (born 1948) who claims to be the founder of the Scottish National Liberation Army (SNLA) in 1980. The SNLA is a terrorist organisation (however the number of individuals involved is disputed, some believing that Busby works alone) which has used violence against English people living in Scotland and against prominent British political figures.

Busby is a former soldier with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and comes from the Seedhill area of Paisley [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1850234.stm] .

Busby fled to Dublin after the 1983 letter-bombing campaign, where he reportedly tried to join forces with the Provisional Irish Republican Army but the offer is said to have been refused [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1850234.stm] .

In 1997, Busby was jailed in Ireland for the letter bomb campaign [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1850234.stm] .

In September 2006, the Sunday Times - Scotland reported that Busby may be targeted for extradition to America to face terror charges. Police in Ireland are said to have agreed to help the FBI, MI5 and Special Branch to investigate following a series of e-mails to the US about how to contaminate US water supplies [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-2351365,00.html] .

All of these events have been condemned by the Scottish National Party and public figures on both sides of the Scottish independence debate. There is also a small scale debate within the Scottish Nationalist community over whether the actions of Busby and the SNLA have harmed the campaign of IndependenceFact|date=February 2007.

There are "rumours" that Busby had in fact been working on behalf of the UK government as an "agent provocateur". (It is a minor curiosity that Busby was originally trained as an army recruit in the same squad as the late Brian Nelson, also named as a double-agent with Irish terrorist connections.) The Scottish Nationalist Party has claimed that the British government engaged in a "dirty tricks" campaign as a deliberate attempt to undermine support for Scottish nationalism at a time when it was on the increase. This theory has been dismissed by the Scottish Labour Party, the Scottish Conservative Party and the Civil Service [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20050821/ai_n14915947]

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