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Dies Irae; a day of anger against Ahern in Galway, yesterday, by Mary Kelly and her stalwarts !

category galway | anti-war / imperialism | news report author Sunday October 03, 2004 20:23author by Tommy Donnellan - Galway Mary Kelly Support Group Report this post to the editors

Yesterday, in Galway city, the colours of Ahern's Ireland were firmly nailed to the mast !.

Following the revelations of anti-war activist, Tim Hourigan in Indymedia, Fintan O' Toole in the Irish Times and the Swedish investigative reporter, Fredrik Laurin, on
The nailing of our true colours to the yankee war-machine and what one Euro honcho, a year or so ago, called "despicable neutrality".
The nailing of our true colours to the yankee war-machine and what one Euro honcho, a year or so ago, called "despicable neutrality".

the abducting and ferrying of suspected al-Qaeda suspects to Guantanamo bay (an unknown number via Shannon warport), Mary and her stalwarts took to the streets of Galway to protest agains the criminal collusion of Ahern & co in the facilitating of this obscene trafficking. O' Toole, in his article, implies that our government has "colluded in serious crimes under national and international law" and the longer we allow this to happen, the deeper we will be sucked into this "moral swamp." As Ahern and his fellow travellers are skulking in the fiction of "plausible deniability"; that the yanks, per se, are above suspicion and thats the end of the "debate," as it were there is no smoking gun is in their hands, but what is meticulously documented by Laurin and Seymour Hersh in his new book 'Chain of Command' is that in 2001, two Egyptians, suspected of being al-Qaeda members were lifted in Sweden by American and Swedish security and spirited back to Egypt on a Gulfstream 5 chartered jet for torture by electricity, bypassing all Swedish legal procedure. According to O' Toole, the suspects "clothes were cut off with scissors, suppositories containing an unknown drug were inserted into their bodies, their hands and feet were chained to a harness" and once on the jet they were blindfolded and hooded. This Gulfstream, registered as N379P, was logged by Tim several times passing through Shannon and as we take the view that these stop overs were'nt to facilitate our government in the transfer of fat brown envelopes to off shore accounts, for instance, but in the "disappearing" of human beings, we took to the streets. Fuck this criminal government of ours, we, for sure, aren't going to be voiceless in the moral swamp manufactured by these boggo's or like Ginsburg, "allow our souls to die unholy in this armed madhouse," ok !. With the October 19th retrial of Mary so close, yesterday, was particularly heartening as Aron motored all the way from Athlone and Nick, Martha and their five month old son, Uisce, travelled from Ardrahan to participate, to boot, Enrique and Esperanza, the Spanish 'Nunca Mais' activists manned the front line also, fair play !.

"The Wearing of the Green" as commanded by our government for the Guantanamo's ?.
"The Wearing of the Green" as commanded by our government for the Guantanamo's ?.

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author by Tommy Donnellan - Galway Mary Kelly Support Group.publication date Sun Oct 03, 2004 20:44author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Sloppy publishing for sure - the caption ; "The Wearing of the Green" ( 'n the White and Orange" by the Guantanamo's should be under pic 3.

author by Timpublication date Mon Oct 04, 2004 11:04author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Fair play to ye lads, that's a great way of getting the message across.

It's worth reminding people though, when you mention the two Egyptian lads that one of them endured 34 months of imprisonment, beatings and electrocutions only to be released without charge... and the other was convicted in a closed military court without public scrutiny.

So, they're taking these guys and torturing them without even having any proof that they are criminals.

Yesterday's Observer carries quotes from a retired Intelligence officer who says that the torture methods in Guantanamo are not getting any good intelligence.
One guy (since released) confessed - after torture and threats to meeting Bin Laden in Afghanistan in 2000. Yet when his travel and work records were checked, he had been working in Currys electrical shop in England all that year and had not left the country.

They haven't caught the real terrorists and are happy to pick up hundreds of people and force confessions out of them, and the Gombeens here are happy to let them.

author by Eoin Dubskypublication date Mon Oct 04, 2004 11:28author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Pretty quickly people being tortured will begin saying whatever they think will make the pain stop. They'll say anything.

On a related note: Isn't it fascinating that Bertie, O'Dea and all the other apologists for the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq, have now come out donning expressions of disgust and surprise at the suggestion that torturers may have used Shannon Airport. Hundreds of plane-loads of weapons and explosives, fine. Thousands of foreign soldiers and their automatic assault -- sorry, "personal" -- weapons, fine. Rummy and even GW Bush himself, the man with ultimate legal and political responsibility for those attacks, fine too. But torturers? Shock horror. As Tony Blair once responded to the accusation that he had lead the UK to commit the gravest crimes under international law, "That's a very serious accusation." ('nuf said)

 
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