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Michael O'Neill
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SubjectRe: The British Secret Service...[was Re: Republicanism still an offence in Eng
FromMichael O'Neill
Date2002-04-23 20:51 (2002-04-23 19:51)
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Russ wrote:

Russ
In article <Z4dx8.9571$e5.61222@news.indigo.ie>, "John Evans" <john@nospamevion.com>writes:

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John Evans
For me, as an Irish citizen, the Adare murder asks a whole load of questions that the IRA, and Sinn Fein have never answered. Indeed I can't believe that when Gerry Adams starts banging on about these guys being released under the Good Friday agreement that he's not pinned on it by the media.

Russ
You are correct. Sinn Fein and the IRA cannot have it both ways. If it was a rogue operation then they cannot embrace them and claim they are entitled to the benefits of the GFA. If it was not a rogue operation, then they are entitled to those benefits; of course then the IRA would have to embrace the crime committed by them.

Another example of this doublespeak is the FARC fiasco. First Sinn Fein and the IRA say they have no relation to those terrorist trainers. Then they reverse course and embrace them with all the attendant calls in the Republican News to release the 'Columbia Three'. If the case of proven, let them rot.

In general I would agree. If the case be proven let them rot. I'd be a bit concerned about *who* is proving the case and what looks like evidence being planted or altered by the American investigators.

Yet there is a sneaking suspicion on my mind that the Columbia Three may *not* have been there to *promote* terrorism.

Look at how far the IRA and the Northern Ireland Peace Process have got. Could the three IRA members have been there as "advisors", literally?

Advising the FARC guerillas on how to engage for political advantage as Gerry Adams et al have done? Could this be seen as anything other than peace-mongering? You can laugh if you want but ten years ago the thought of a peace process in Northern Ireland was a dream, nothing more.

I'm interested to see the resolution of this whole shebang.

M.

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