British bug Adams
Blair must provide answers
Two fundamental questions surround the discovery of a sophisticated
bug in a car used by Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams. They are: (i)
Who authorised the operation? and (ii) If the British government did
not, then are elements within the British secret services in Ireland
now effectively out of control?
Importantly, it has been pointed out by Sinn Féin that the bugged
vehicle was used by Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness specifically to
travel to and from crucial meetings with the IRA during the period of
the Mitchell Review.
The bugging operation represents an extremely serious breach of faith
against the Sinn Féin leadership at an important stage in the
development of the peace process and is a worrying reminder of the
failed security/military agenda which the current process was designed
to put behind us.
The operation bears all the hallmarks of a state-sponsored covert
intelligence operation, for which the British have been responsible so
many times in the past. It is imperative that British Prime Minister
Tony Blair addresses the matter urgently.
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