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| IRA 'is teaching Palestinians how to blow up Israeli soldiers' in West Bank national | miscellaneous | news report  Monday April 29, 2002 10:30 by David Bamber - The Sunday Telegraph THE IRA has been teaching Palestinian terrorists to build booby-trap bombs for use against Israeli soldiers, according to a British explosives expert working in the Jenin refugee camp. It should be recalled that Senator Mitchell was appointed to propose a path to peace between Israel and the Palestinians in light of his "success" in Ireland.... THE IRA has been teaching Palestinian terrorists to build booby-trap bombs for use against Israeli soldiers, according to a British explosives expert working in the Jenin refugee camp. Paul Collinson, a former Royal Engineers bomb disposal officer working for the Red Cross, said that the devices he had found were identical in every detail to those he had encountered in Northern Ireland. He told The Telegraph that he had discovered more than 200 explosive devices while working in the camp in the West Bank after the recent Israeli invasion. He said that he was convinced that the bombs were either Thirteen Israeli soldiers were killed in the street battle for Jenin, which was thought to be a centre of activity for Palestinian suicide bombers. Mr Collinson said that the booby-trap bombs used in Jenin and Northern Ireland were made from the same ingredients - nitrogen-based fertiliser, diesel and sugar. He also suggested that the tactics used by Palestinian militants in the battle for Jenin mirrored those of IRA attacks on British soldiers. He said: "The bombs were placed in alleyways and in houses. The Palestinians attempted to lure the soldiers into these alleyways which were booby-trapped, and then explode the devices with a command wire. I have seen similar tactics used by the IRA in Armagh, Londonderry and Belfast." Despite working as an explosives expert in the Palestinian territories over the past two years - as well as Egypt, Colombia, Afghanistan and other countries since leaving Northern Ireland - Mr Collinson has not seen seen replicas of the IRA bombs anywhere other than recently in Jenin. The revelation will fuel international concerns about the role being played by the IRA during its ceasefire. Israel has already raised concerns about links between the Republicans and Palestinian groups. It is known that the IRA had contacts with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in the 1970s. In the 1980s, IRA members travelled to Libya to meet Palestinian representatives. As The Telegraph disclosed last month, the Israeli intelligence service Mossad asked British security agencies to check on the movements of known IRA killers to help identify a sniper who shot dead seven soldiers and three civilians in 25 minutes - using 25 bullets from a bolt-action rifle. This latest revelation of the IRA's international connections comes after Wednesday's US Senate hearing into the Republicans' links with Farc, the Colombian terrorist group. Three suspected IRA men were arrested last summer after being captured allegedly trying to build a "super-bomb" in the Colombian jungle. James Monaghan, the IRA's head of engineering, Martin McAuley, an expert mortar bomb technician, and Niall Connolly, Sinn Fein's representative in Cuba, were detained by the Colombian military last August. This paper also revealed last week that the IRA had bought 20 guns from Russia, in breach of the Good Friday ceasefire. Last night, a US government official said that evidence of a Palestinian link would raise further questions over the IRA's ceasefire. He said: "If there was clear and convincing evidence that the IRA has been "It would surely lead to a reassessment of whether the IRA should not be put on the designated list of terrorist organisations with a global reach. "The implications could not be worse for the IRA." Detectives in Northern Ireland also think that a senior IRA commander in Belfast was one of 12 other suspected terrorists who entered Colombia last year. Blurred photographs of the suspects were given to the US Senate hearings on Wednesday by the Colombians. The suspect travelled to Colombia on a false passport, but has now been identified by intelligence agencies in Colombia and the United States. |
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"When I saw the bombs it was like a flashback to Northern Ireland. "The pipe bombs I found in Jenin are exact replicas of those in Northern Ireland. The size of bomb, the way they put the nail in, the way of igniting it with a light-bulb filament, where they drilled the holes through, the use of a command wire and the means of initiating the bomb; these are all the same"
Aye but Colonel Blimp should know that in those thirty years since then, the I.R.A. got a little better at making bombs - Canary Wharf wasn't done with a pipe bomb.
Colonel Blimp also should know that pipebombs are the most basic form of explosive device possible (barely a step up from the petrol bomb), only used lately by Loyalists and can be made by anybody (instructions on the internet).
But then perhaps Colonel Blimp is a propaganda rather than explosives expert.
Your man found simliar bombs? And then a mendering story about MOSSAD and Columbia?
But theres not actual proof you say? No evidence anywhere? Conjecture, Spectulation and rumour?
They're kinda like evidence
any chance of showing us evidence ib the way of links to to Telegraph archives??
Eoin Maher
David Bamber of the Telegraph says its true, so it must be. After all they have never lied about the north, have they?
At least the IRA always claimed they gave warnings . The PLO -Tamzim - Hamas who operate in the UNRWA Jenin " camp " set up in 1953 and elsewhere give no warnings and are are out to murder as many people as possible both when using booby trap bombs and suicide bombs in civilian areas . How come the wondeful peaceful UN allows such things ot go in their " camp " .
Two , Three storey houses --what a "camp " --just like the Curragh !!
Whats the body count in Jenin so far 50 ?
More were killed in suicide bombs in Netanya . Jerusalwm and Haifa in the month of March than in Jenin .
The Arabs have nt had time to dig up more bodies of people who have been dead for two years and more ,to bring into the "camp " area to swell the numbers of dead .
That Palestinain propaganda -- they must have had leesons from Gerry A and Martin Mac G in how to say what they dont mean .
I very much doubt that the IRA where involved in anyway,
If they are involved as they have been with the FARC, then it's nothing new, their is a broad ideological affinity between all these populist 'armies', nationalist, red, green or purple,
It isnt anything new that they share information either, just like the US, UK, EU governments share information on their latest 'discoveries' to make life nasty, brutish and short, at their trade fairs,
Did it ever occur to anyone that all these RA men who are turning up around the globe in guerilla camps could be moonlighting? Or taking the road of a 'Soldier of Fortune'?
I don't believe that the Zionist army or air force gave any warning before demolishing houses with elderly people, women and children inside. Any person or ethnic group or nation is entitled to defend themselves if attacked. The resistance of an oppressed people who were on the receiving end of a grave injustice in 1948 cannot be compared to the Zionist war crimes. The journalist who came up with this peace would be better commenting on the actions of successive british govenments who have helped to prop up repressive regimes in the middle east such as Saudi Arabia or Oman.
well to be honest id say the I.R.A have some good links with the Palistinian Liberation Organisations as the Palistinian cause is very very similiar to the Irish cause years ago...
The things about the pipe bombs well anyone can make them as someone there pointed out, but there are very different ways of making such devices, there is never one way. So if the pipebombs in Jenin are the exact same as pipebombs made in Northern Ireland well there is something really fishy about that!