12 March 1998 Edition
Editor's desk
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?
Answers 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?
Answers:
(a) Israel; (b) Israel; (c) Israel; (d) Israel.
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?
Answers 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?
Answers:
(a) Israel; (b) Israel; (c) Israel; (d) Israel.