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FromDavid Flood
Date2002-04-23 21:44 (2002-04-23 20:44)
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"John Evans" <john@nospamevion.com>wrote in message news:Z4dx8.9571$e5.61222@news.indigo.ie...

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"David Flood" <NOSPAMmaoltuile@utvinternet.ie>wrote in message news:aa1pon$75ls5$3@ID-121201.news.dfncis.de...

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Michael O'Neill
paulh wrote:

John Evans
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Michael O'Neill
The IRA have issued a statement denying their involvement. Say what

John Evans
you

Michael O'Neill
like about the Continuity IRA, the Real IRA, or any other shade of Republicanism, the actual IRA have never been shown to state other

John Evans
than

Michael O'Neill
facts AFAICR.

John Evans
I could have sworn they denied that the murderers of Garda McCabe were on active service, until it became obvious otherwise?

David Flood
The whole thing was just too... bizarre. Why did they do it? Wtf did

John Evans
they

David Flood
intend to gain by killing two Guards?

There's *something* going on there, and we might never learn the truth

of

it.

D.

John Evans
I'm reluctant to post here - having lurked in the group for a while and having posted once or twice. I sense that getting into an 'Irish' topic

can

go off in tangents, but here I go.

A quick look in Google indicates that both David an Michael seem be fairly clued in on things Irish, so I'm surprised that both are of the view that there is some conspiracy of sorts at work in the Garda McCabe murder.

Here's a theory - it was murder, plain and simple:

Which is beyond dispute.

No moles in the Gardai, no premeditated political motives. Just a group of very violent people setting out to rob a post office money delivery, seeing two gardai who

they

probably recognised (I'm sure someone like Pearse McAuley would be well known to the Special Branch and vice versa) and taking the opportunity to kill them because that's what mindless violent people do.

Maybe. Yet (from the published accounts) they seemed to be deliberately targetting Detective McCabe.

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.

Gerry and his chums have overplayed their cards at last (look at Kerry!), and won't be getting much out of the forthcoming election.

D.