US wants to question Adams on terror link

The Times (UK) ^ | March 20, 2002 | Damian Whitworth in Washington and David Lister

[aculeus]

Will he bring Professor Pus-filled Inflamation along as his attorney?

[dighton]

What to speak of Bald Fungian.

[Free the USA]

fyi

[Long Cut]

The answer is obvious. A group of foul terrorist murderers with Marxist pretensions was teaching a like-minded group in another country how to best kill even more innocent people for political blackmail. I'll say it again:

A TERRORIST IS A TERRORIST, NO MATTER WHERE HE'S FROM!

They must all face the same fate, or they will menace us forever. That means ALL of them, to anyone who romanticizes the IRA.

[anatolfz]

Amach leat, a Bhold Fenian; tabhair miniu ar sin, ma's feidir leat!

[aculeus]

What to speak of Bald Fungian.

Natch. He's the body guard.

[aculeus]

The IRA has been funded in the most part by US based NORAID.

Brits have always over-estimated the depth of support among Irish-Americans for the IRA. Most of us don't give a damn.

A multi-millionaire named Chuck Feeney is an exception. He made a pile as co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers now part of a French conglomorate and has donated heavily to SF. He's a rather reclusive man and I don't know what his current views are.

[Catspaw]

Hyde may also want to ask Adams about the shooting of Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint about two weeks ago. The suspect is thought to be a member of the IRA working with one of the Palestinian terror organizations.

[Long Cut]

Gee, yet another group of murderous terrs with Marxist pretensions raises its ugly head. Thanks, Paw, although I cannot say I'm surprised. IRA/PLO ties go way back. All these groups were nourished in their infancy by the same source of ideological and financial fertilizer, the Soviet Union(in the form of the KGB). Small wonder that they all know each other.

And rest assured, they all know the bunch who replaced the KGB: al Queda. Less organized perhaps, but no less destructive, and certainly no less hateful of the West. Bottom line? We must be careful...not all of our current enemies wear turbans.

[mustapha mond]

I guess the IRA is now a terrorist group of international reach. Fire up the cruise missiles. --MM

[Catspaw]

And rest assured, they all know the bunch who replaced the KGB: al Queda. Less organized perhaps, but no less destructive, and certainly no less hateful of the West. Bottom line? We must be careful...not all of our current enemies wear turbans.

Very true. Because of the widespread reach of al Qaeda, and that although their goal is a pure Islamic state, it wouldn't be beyond the realm of possibility that they'd find a commonality of interest with other terror groups.

Al Qaeda is organized, but not in the typical corporate/military sense. It's based more loosely on Communist cells or the Lone Wolf/leaderless resistance theory articulated by Louis Beam of the KKK.

[jonatron]

Gerry Adams is just like his other communist thug friends Castro and Arafat. Like Arafat, if he does have the guts to show up, he'll probably claim that it's some "milititant extremist fringe group" that he has no control over.

All the Irish Americans that believe in the IRA-myth are just so naive, it would be funny, except that they're sympathizing with communist drug-thug murderers that it's actually disgusting.

It's even worse when people like that consider themselves conservatives when the only thing conservative about them is that they don't like to pay taxes.

[Orual]

We would consider it extremely bad manners to say the least if The Times has a copy of this letter but Gerry Adams does not.

"Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging tone.
Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. `I don't see any wine,' she remarked.
`There isn't any,' said the March Hare.
`Then it wasn't very civil of you to offer it,' said Alice angrily.
`It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without being invited,' said the March Hare."

This ain't no tea party.

[Catspaw]

It's even worse when people like that consider themselves conservatives when the only thing conservative about them is that they don't like to pay taxes.

How very true. But terrorism is terrorism. It takes some people longer than others to *get it* and some never will.

[aculeus]

This ain't no tea party.

Which explains why assorted FR supporters of IRA haven't shown up on this thread.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!