Ireland - SF ardfheis programme raises touchy issues [US out of Puerto Rico]

Irish Times ^ | 28 September 2001 | Jim Cusack

[Norn Iron]

Will whippersnapper Adams really tell Bush to get his butt out of Puerto Rico?

[Timocrat]

In recent years, as the peace process in the North progressed, the Sinn Féin ardfheis has been a magnet for Irish-American politicians. Members of the US Senate and Congress have attended.

Oh really ? Who pray tell? Not a tubby US senator from Mass known for his aquatic driving skills surely.

Also would you mind not posting articles, especially from the Irish Times, which indicate that the IRA is just another Socialist/Communist front organisation. It really upsets the romantic illusions BoldFenian and Right Wing Profesor have for this organisation.

[longshadow]

bttt

[Norn Iron]

Bin Laden cell links to Ireland plot

[slane]

Will whippersnapper Adams really tell Bush to get his butt out of Puerto Rico?

If Adams does, I have a feeling Bush will tell him to go pound sand. I don't think Gerry is going to be getting any more invites to the White House, thank God! If he does I for one will be very disappointed.

[Norn Iron]

Why is the US ambassador to Ireland, Richard Egan, attending a terrorist convention in Dublin?

The convention includes people from Sinn Fein-IRA, ETA, PLO and the FALN from Porto Rico. The first three have close links to Colombia's FARC.

[Colosis]

Check out Latest Loyalist Murder

[constitutiongirl]

Both of you having a party and leaving me out. I'm crushed, truly crushed. lol

[Norn Iron]

Seems to be a problem with this link.

[Norn Iron]

Gerry's off to South Africa - for another photo-opportunity! He's a fairly gutless character. He has decided that a photo-shoot with Fidel Castro wouldn't go down well in the White House!!

[Colosis]

Sorry about the link - it was an article about the killing of a journalist at the weekend in Lurgan. Free speech is taking a battering in Ireland.

[Norn Iron]

Ambassador Egan attends terrorist convention

[Norn Iron]

McGuinness fury over Sinn Féin own goals

[longshadow]

thanks for the link.

Very interesting editorial. Given the IRA's widespread international involvement with terrorists, what reason is there to NOT put them on the target list along with bin Laden and the rest of the international terrorists scum?

[Norn Iron]

There could well be a link between the Bin Laden network and Sinn Fein/IRA. The latter has the power to hit London very hard and the former has the cash to back it up.

The Irish terrorists are not on the terrorist register at present because of their influential friends in the Republican and Democratic parties plus Ahern, the Irish taoiseach, and Hume, the recently retired leader of the SDLP, who value their use as 'persuaders' for Irish unity.

I probably don't need to spell out the nature of that persuasion. Let's just say it includes scaled down versions of the attack on the WTC.

In the past they almost wiped out the Thatcher administration and presumably those who carried out the Black Tuesday attack would like to have done the same to the Bush one.

[longshadow]

The Irish terrorists are not on the terrorist register at present because of their influential friends in the Republican and Democratic parties plus Ahern, the Irish taoiseach, and Hume, the recently retired leader of the SDLP, who value their use as 'persuaders' for Irish unity.

Given the dramatically altered perception of terrorists since 9/11, I should think Blair would have pretty much a free hand to deal with the IRA however he sees fit. It would be difficult for congressmen in the US to critisize RAF Tornado's pounding the IRA into oblivion whilst our B-1's, B-2's, B-52's, and cruise missiles are raining down on the heads of bin Laden and the Taliban.

This, of course, assumes Blair has the desire and willpower to do so, which may well not be the case.

[Norn Iron]

Irish terrorists can easily strike London's financial centre. Blair has to proceed with caution.

[FFIGHTER]

What of the DRP, E4A, LVF, PAF, UVF, PUP, UDA, UDR, UFF and Redhand Commandos? Put them all in the mix, they all have earned their terrorist badges as well.

[FFIGHTER]

The terrorist on both sides represent a very small minority who should all be rounded up and disposed of accordingly. Neither group represents the positions they claim publically, they are merely fronts for criminal organizations that deal in drugs, extortion and death for all that come across their pathetic path.

[Norn Iron]

The UDR isn't a terrorist organisation. It has been re-named the Royal Irish Regiment and is part of the defence forces of the UK.