Now this might make sense. According to Tom Clancy, whose novels are supposedly very well researched and "plausible", Arab terrorists and IRA were trained by Communist experts, and there was some coordination going on between these various terrorist groups. I have not checked out the new list of terrorist groups Ashcroft said the U. S. will kick out, but I wonder how many are based in Ireland. Don't just mistrust Arab looking people. Now Irish accents as well as people from Germany are among the legitamate suspects. And those Irish terrorists will do everything they can to make the U. S.'s actions seem illegitamate among the British Isles. I say a terrorist is a terrorist - they all must be stopped, and we're the only ones who can do it. Thank goodness Ashcroft has specifically and publicly named some of them now.