As the United States continues to make belligerent
noises against Iraq, you can remind yourself of the
despicable reality in the Middle East by answering
these simple questions:
Which country in the Middle East:
(a) refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation
treaty and bars international inspections?
(b) seized the sovereign territory of other nations by
military force and continues to occupy it in defiance
of United Nations Security Council resolutions?
(c) refuses to prosecute its soldiers who have
acknowledged executing prisoners of war?
(d) created 762,000 refugees and refuses to allow them
to return to their homes, farms and businesses?
swers below.
Isn't it amazing how the first response of the RUC is
to tell lies? On Wednesday night, an RUC/British Army
patrol opened fire near the Falls Park in West Belfast.
They said they had come under attack and had returned
fire. All lies. They weren't fired on. There wasn't
even a gunman.
The good old RUC. You can certainly depend on them.
A fine old British Army tradition has been revived. The
Devonshire and Dorset Regiment is recruiting by
visiting local pubs. They don't yet whack unsuspecting
customers over the head and drag them off, but no doubt
filling them with drink and conning them with stories
of great derring-do in the Six Counties and elsewhere
will do for now.
Garda Branchman JP O'Sullivan from Cork was convicted
last week of causing criminal damage to the house of a
woman he was stalking. JP, the fine fellow, was in the
Cork Garda Choir until 1990 when he left after a
dispute. He wanted the choir's accompianist to also
leave but she refused so JP does what Branchmen do
best. He harassed her. He tampered with her locks,
poured diesel through her letter box and generally made
a nuisance of himself. He was given a six-year
suspended sentence.
JP's other claim to fame is that he was the handler of
IRA informer John Corcoran. You may remember that
British and Garda agent Sean O'Callaghan has admitted
killing Corcoran by shooting him in the head. That has
caused controversy because an agent of the state
apparently got away with murder.
Now JP, Corcoran's handler, looks set to be expelled
from the force. He claims he was set up by people
within the Gardaí. Is there a murky story to be told?
swers:
(a) Israel; (b) Israel; (c) Israel; (d) Israel.
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