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The real terrorists in Ireland are the British troops. If I lived there I would be fighting the occupiers. Have you English occupiers killed in cold blood any locals lately?

He said: "While the government of the United States has been declaring war on terrorists the US Ambassador to Dublin attended the annual conference of IRA terrorists at which there were specifically invited the political representatives of a number of international groups which his government supposedly has declared war on."

There are 'terrorists' and then there are terrorists, I guess.

South Africa should be example for Northern Ireland, says Adams

London, Oct. 1, IRNA - Northern Ireland should learn from South Africa's example of a peaceful transition to democracy, Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams said, arriving in Johannesburg Monday.

"We have a duty to listen and try to replicate what you have done here, back home in Ireland," Adams was quoted saying by the UK Press Association. The formation of a democratic South Africa was "one of the greatest human achievements of the last century," he said.

Sinn Fein leader is due to brief former president Nelson Mandela on recent events in Northern Ireland during his visit. In his two previous visits, he has often compared the experience of the country's black population to Catholics in Northern Ireland.

Adams is also scheduled to visit Robben Island, where Mandela was incarcerated for three decades during the apartheid era, and unveil a plaque in memory of the IRA hunger-strikers in the 1980s.

Source: ISLAMIC REPUBLIC WIRE, Iran
http://www.irna.com/newshtm/eng/09185859.htm

He should have been there calling in air strikes.

More to the point Norn. I'm disappointed in two of President Bush;s policies that are nothing more than continuations of Clinton policies. One is the continued misadventure in the Balkans where NATO supported the wrong side. The other is the continued coddling of the IRA. Adams and McGuinness are no better than Osama. Well, somewhat less destructive but the same Modus Operand. I have Catholic relatives on both sides of the border who agree with me.

I'm surprised and disappointed by Mr. Egan's attendance at the Ardfheis, although if he attended out of naivete as I hope, he surely has had his eyes opened by the anti-American agenda of the whole thing. Perhaps he was misled by the venue. I confess it was a surprise to me as well! It seems a bit out of character to for SF, with its socialist/communist/prole rhetoric to hold their shindig in Ballsbridge of all places, especially at the RDS - there's that 'Royal' thing after all. Maybe that's what threw Mr. Egan off.

Did you read Conor Cruise O'Brien's editorial in the Irish News on Saturday about the IRA's attitude towards the US?

"The climax of anti-Americanism in the Sinn Fein organ An Phoblacht/Republican News now came, weirdly, a couple of days after the bombings in New York and Washington.

An Phoblacht's editorial suggested that the bombings were a justifiable response to American imperialism in the Middle East. That was going too far even for Sinn Fein's masters, the IRA.

An Phoblacht, in the following week, published an article about the international situation which did not contain a word of criticism of the US.

The organ-grinder had brought his monkey under control."

Yank this ambassador back and replace him! This is as bad as Clinton sending the IRA-loving Jean Kennedy Smith.