IRA admits killing of teenage girl in 1973

Reuters UK ^ | Fri Jun 24, 2005 | Not stated

[Red Sea Swimmer]

Imagine if all the world's unsolved crimes were admitted by the perpetrators.

[TexConfederate1861]

Friend:

I was in the US Navy, and no better friends did I ever have than the British. However, being part Irish, I have to resent the way that the Irish were treated. That doesn't mean you or your generation behaved that way, but the Irish were treated worse than dogs, and in their own country!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Technically speaking, there's no difference at all between the Dutch and the English.

Makes you wonder at those Anglo-Boer wars....

[muawiyah]

The "Boers" were only partly of Dutch origin. This particular nationality is readily traced to Huguenots who lost their way trying to flee to America.

[muawiyah]

If the Brits hadn't had the USA looking over their shoulder they'd turned the island into a death camp.

Look, the problem with the division, as well as the establishment of a Free Ireland, rests with Wilson's demands.

If you recall, all the disputed areas in Europe were to hold plebescites where folks would decide what country they wished to be part of. German speakers were expected to affiliate with Germany or Austria while French speakers were espected to affiliate with France or Belgium. In the East, Hungarians speakers, Czech speakers, Slovak speakers, etc. would all chose appropriately, and in the South, Southern Slavs would affiliate with a new state called Yugoslavia (unaccountably made up of all sorts of ethnic groups, language groups, religious groups, etc., entirely the opposite of what was going on in Central and Western Europe).

Applying this principle to Ireland resulted in the Brits having a valid argument to keep Ulster out of the Irish Republic.

The US Congress didn't dispute this since it was in conformance with the Wilsonian standards they had encouraged for use elsewhere in Europe.

In the United States there'd been riots in the street if any of the Wilsonian standards had been proposed for use in drawing state lines of course, but such is the nature of hubris!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I see, thanks!

[elc]

More recently they've been caught in bed with South American Latino narcotrafficantes, as well as Moslem extremists like AlQaida. Not sure that decision helped draw Roman Catholic support to them. There is no doubt the IRA has been in bed, so to speak, with any number of other terrorist organizations - in Columbia, Libya, Spain, etc. But I've never seen any credible evidence that they are working with Al Qaida today.

[muawiyah]

Odds are the IRA types who tried doing business with AlQaida were slaughtered on the spot. Anybody show up missing lately?