jmm@bonnie.UUCP (Joe Mcghee) (10/12/84)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dave Peak says, > Reprinted from AP wire services (Dublin,Ireland 10/01/84): > > "American sympathizers of the IRA paid for a seized arms cache that > included rockets,hand grenades and submachine guns meant for killing > people on both sides of the Irish border", Justice Minister Michael > Noonan said yesterday. > > Noonan saidthe arms "came from the United States but some of the > weapons were manufactured in different countries." He did not spell > out what evidence he had that the shipment was financed by Americans. Meanwhile in the same time period the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland, Mr. Spring, unveiled a statue of Sir Roger Casement. Sir Roger Casement is remembered in Irish history for a daring but unsucessful attempt to smuggle arms into Ireland just prior to the Uprising of 1916. Sir Roger Casement was hung by the British for treason after his capture following the arms smuggling incident. > The capture of the Marita Ann resulted from a two year undercover > operation by security agents on both sides of the Atlantic that > included both the US Central Intelligence Agency and the FBI,security > sources said. > > An American satellite was used to track a Canadian registered vessel > from a port on the east coast of the United States to a point off the > Irish coast where the arms shipment was transferred to the Marita Ann > "This was essentially an Irish police operation that got the co-operation > of other security forces" Noonan said, refusing to elaborate. The members of the U.S. Intelligence agencies are probably totally unaware of the fact that during the American Revolution these same coasts were very carefully patrolled by the British Navy because a vast quantity of gunpowder, which was in very short supply in America, was being shipped from Ireland to supply the American Revolutionary Forces. > Noonan told a news conference that the Irish government was especially > concerned about the inclusion of hand grenades in the consignment. > > "I cannot remember an occasion when the IRA used hand grenades ..... > Were they planning to get into a situation of hurling hand grenades > into shops, pubs and cafes or whatever ? That particular aspect has me > worried". Although Mr. Noonan may not be able to remember hand grenades being used in Northern Ireland, they have been used. In one incident a man walked up to the front door of a British Army post in the center of one of the large cities and rolled a hand grenade in the door, then disappeared in the confusion following the explosion. There haven't been any cases reported of hand grenades being used at shops, pubs or cafes. On the other hand, Mr. Noonan seems to be totally unconcerned about the nuclear warheads which were moved into Northern Ireland a couple of years ago for storage at Lisburn, County Antrim. What other political warzone in the world has its own central stockpile of nuclear warheads? Beiruit? El Salvador? Chile? Tehran? Is the British government trying to show the world how much compounded stupidity it can get away with or was this nuclear storage facility meant to be bait and provocation for the IRA? Meanwhile, the British magazine New Statesman reports that during the Falkland Islands Conflict a nuclear-armed Polaris submarine was deployed of the Ascension Islands for a possible last-resort nuclear attack on Argentina if the British fleet suffered devastating losses. The town of Cordoba in Northern Argentina was the proposed target according to the magazine which cited a series of highly classified telegrams sent to the British Embassy in Washington as the source of the information. Labour Party members in Parliament called for an urgent investigation into the charges. KAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!! AWESOME FIREBALL MUSHROOM CLOUD SHOCK WAVE WORLD WAR III Thank you, Mrs. Thatcher.