12 April 2012
Northern Ireland loyalists should decommission their weapons and disband their terror machines, one of their most notorious former leaders said.
Johnny Adair made the call ahead of Monday's deadline for power-sharing between Protestants and Catholics in the province.
The infamous west Belfast Ulster Defence Association commander was forced out of the organisation in 2002 after a dispute but said IRA disarmament should force his former colleagues to follow suit.
"The UDA are just a thuggish, criminal organisation.
"They don't need to be there, they need to go away," he told the BBC's Radio Five.
"There is no threat to the community, there is no threat to Ulster, so therefore go away."
