Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The Observer: IRA bomb expert training Palestinians in West Bank
Israel Insider ^ | 7/13/2003 | Israel Insider

Posted on 07/13/2003 5:10:41 AM PDT by Israel Insider

Israeli intelligence operatives have launched an extensive manhunt for an IRA bomb-making expert suspected of training Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank, the British Observer weekly reported today.

The identity of the 40-year-old man, who entered Israel three weeks ago on a British passport, is known both to The Observer and the Shin Bet, the publication reported. The man is considered "among the world's leading experts in both bomb- and mortar-making technology," according to the report.

Intelligence officials believe that the man successfully crossed into the West Bank and is currently working to help Palestinian terrorist groups, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, improve their bomb-making skills. "Israeli security forces are bracing themselves for a series of massive bomb attacks," the publication said.

Click here for full report


TOPICS: Breaking News; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ira; ireland; israel; palestinians; terror; terrorism

1 posted on 07/13/2003 5:10:41 AM PDT by Israel Insider
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Israel Insider
Obviously President Bush screwed up when he left Ireland and the IRA off the "Axis of Evil" roll.
2 posted on 07/13/2003 5:14:00 AM PDT by Cacophonous
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All
Keep Free Republic Rockin' 'Round The Clock!

Donate Here By Secure Server

Or mail checks to
FreeRepublic , LLC
PO BOX 9771
FRESNO, CA 93794

or you can use

PayPal at Jimrob@psnw.com

STOP BY AND BUMP THE FUNDRAISER THREAD-
It is in the breaking news sidebar!

3 posted on 07/13/2003 5:15:35 AM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Israel Insider
training Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank

But....but....I thought Palistine was the land that wanted peace, and a victim of Israels oppression !
Well, that's what the left wing says, anyway. Maybe they feel murder is a peaceful behavior, aye?
I feel so sorry for the souls in Israel. Imagine having killers running around just blowing things up. They have small 9/11 on a daily basis.

4 posted on 07/13/2003 5:20:52 AM PDT by concerned about politics (Anti-American liberals are inbread Notsosmartso's.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Israel Insider
"If there was clear and convincing evidence that the IRA has been training Palestinians in bomb-making techniques, then we are facing a grave and grievous situation for the IRA," an American official told the Daily Telegraph. "It would surely lead to a reassessment of whether the IRA should be put on the designated list of terrorist organizations with a global reach."

Start the reassessment.

5 posted on 07/13/2003 8:04:38 AM PDT by happygrl (Iran Azad....until they are free, we are all "corrupt street women"!!!!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Israel Insider
The IRA terrorists have been training fellow murderers in the Philippines too.
6 posted on 07/13/2003 8:37:07 AM PDT by OldFriend ((BUSH/CHENEY 2004))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Israel Insider
Of course the 'palestinians' aren't paying for this expert's services with US, EU, and UN 'aid'.
7 posted on 07/13/2003 9:38:03 AM PDT by Binyamin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Israel Insider
If Shin Beth and the Observer Newspaper know his identity, why do they not name him, put his picture up on this site.

The quickest way for this guy to get caught is for everyone to know what he looks like. And there are not that many white faced tourists in the middle east at this present time.......

Even Dahlans men could look for him, it is in their interest also.....

8 posted on 07/13/2003 11:21:35 AM PDT by John_11_25
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: OldFriend; Israel Insider
<< The ira terrorists have been training fellow murderers in the Philippines too. >>

The endemically-alcoholic, bank-robbing, drug and gun-running, cravenly-cowardly anonymously and indiscriminately murdering mob of psychopathologically-marxist gangster bastards that so grandiosely self-styles itself the "ira" has always been a trans-national operator. As long as their are innocents, babies, women, old ladies, little boys and girls with arms and legs to be blown off -- the Mid-East, South America; The Philippines are all the same to Paddy -- he's an every opportunity killer.

The members of that particular manifestation of evil get their rocks of on murdering folks. They don't care who.
9 posted on 07/13/2003 3:03:05 PM PDT by Brian Allen ( Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God - Thomas Jefferson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Brian Allen
Hey, those are FOB you're speaking about!
10 posted on 07/13/2003 4:21:49 PM PDT by OldFriend ((BUSH/CHENEY 2004))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: OldFriend
Yep.

He's one too.

But the civilized world has far worse enemies than the distraction-causing KKKli'toons and the ira combined.

The very very worst of them within Foggy Bottom's self-annointed and self-perpetuating Alger-Hiss-descended Brahmanas -- and among the carefully cloned, guilt-ridden apologetic and defensive Foreign-er Service-ing dullards which that insidious terrorist gang sends around the world to live like nineteenth-century potentates while "representing US" and [CNN/BBC-style] while "reporting back to US."

With such deeply-intrenched Communist-International/Commintern/Comminform friends as those we have at State, Judeo-Christian/Western/Human Civilization knows no lack of deadly enemies! Warmest, Dear OldFRiend -- and blessings -- B A

11 posted on 07/14/2003 1:10:23 AM PDT by Brian Allen ( Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God - Thomas Jefferson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Brian Allen
I agree completely with your statement except for the words.....GUILT RIDDEN.

Plain and simple, they HATE this country.

12 posted on 07/14/2003 6:00:27 AM PDT by OldFriend ((BUSH/CHENEY 2004))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: happygrl; Israel Insider
"If there was clear and convincing evidence that the IRA has been training Palestinians in bomb-making techniques, then we are facing a grave and grievous situation for the IRA," an American official told the Daily Telegraph. "It would surely lead to a reassessment of whether the IRA should be put on the designated list of terrorist organizations with a global reach."

Start the reassessment.

That reassesment is long overdue.

The IRA has been working with the FARC in Columbia since the 1990s. Three people associated with were arrested on August 11, 2001 with false passports and traces of explosives in Bogata and later charged with training locals with the use of explosives and mortars. Globalizing Terrorism: The FARC-IRA Connection

13 posted on 07/14/2003 6:10:26 AM PDT by jriemer (We are a Republic not a Democracy)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: jriemer
Why aren't they giving out a name? Surely they must have
a photo of this guy.
14 posted on 07/14/2003 8:13:16 AM PDT by sean_og
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Rollee; Israel Insider
it seems I wasn't too far off in my assesment. The only thing that surprises me is that this guy would enter Israel on an English passport as opposed to being smuggled across the border from a neighboring country. But, as I said, their top people in both organizations have been killed off, so who knows.

--------------

Irish link as 'floating atom bomb' is stormed

Posted by bc2 to Rollee
On News/Activism 06/24/2003 2:53 PM EDT #53 of 61

there is already an IRA - PLO connection, it's no secret and doesn't take any digging to uncover.

The bombs that Hamas and PLO have been using for several years are all a direct result of trade-off's between the IRA and Muslim organizations: The IRA sends over their top guys to train the Arabs in bomb and mortor construction, and the PLO and Hamas let the IRA train in the desert and help them aquire amrs and ammunition from countries like Lybia.

Now that this link is well known, the IRA have made the same deal with Columbian terrorists, training them in bomb and mortor construction in exchange for use of their large, remote jungle camps. Look into last years story of 3 Irish nationals linked to the "Real IRA" splinter group arrested in Columbia last year.

Now that Israel has been targeting senior Hamas and PLO leaders, most of their senior bomb techs have been killed.

15 posted on 07/14/2003 8:26:33 AM PDT by bc2
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: OldFriend
The "guilt-ridden" ones are those carefully selected to be employed for their easy manage-ability, whose behavior would see them in prison in America and would also "In Country" if they did not cover one anothers arses [Frequently literally!] and, before those America, promote the interests of every obscene tyrant, murderer and dictator in every one of the world's Hell holes. And in America.

I am in contact with them almost every day here in Asia [And have been around the world for more than thirty years] and have seen and see Foreign Service scum to the level of deputy chief of mission engaged in some of the worst degenerate, depraved and deviant behavior imaginable.

Almost worse than their amorality, though, is that they are to a "man," also moronic. They get away with that in DC where everyone else is too -- but here among the totalitarian states there aren't 15,000 superior employers to get the first 15,000 picks of the talent pool as there are in America, so we send our most stupid to "represent us" among tyrants and despots who, in addition to being among the world's most evil, happen also to be some of the world's most intelligent men. Room temperature IQs, too stupid even to recognise the existence of superior intelligence, up against IQs of 180s and above.

And you are right. To a girlyman every last one of them absolutely hates America and Americans.

Best ones -- Brian
16 posted on 07/14/2003 10:19:28 AM PDT by Brian Allen ( Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God - Thomas Jefferson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Brian Allen
Well, slick willie did send Carole Mosley Braun to New Zealand as America's ambassador.
17 posted on 07/14/2003 12:09:40 PM PDT by OldFriend ((BUSH/CHENEY 2004))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: OldFriend
<< Well, slick willie did send Carole Mosley-Braun to New Zealand as America's ambassador. >>

Beats goin' to prison.

Barely.
18 posted on 07/14/2003 6:27:32 PM PDT by Brian Allen ( Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God - Thomas Jefferson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: bc2
He used the British passport because he's more than likely from Northern Ireland and therefore a British subject. It was probably easier for him to get in with it. Thanks for remembering me. If you come across other posts like this, please ping me. This is a very interesting subject.
19 posted on 07/15/2003 7:31:26 PM PDT by Rollee
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson