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Thu 11 Nov 2002Brigadier did not know plans after Paras sent inThe British army brigadier who ordered the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment into Derry's Bogside on Bloody Sunday has admitted he did not know what the Paras planned to do after he had deployed them.Now retired Maj Gen Pat MacLellan also told the 262nd day of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry that the timing of his decision to send in the Paratroopers was possibly wrong.