The main "charity" was called Noraid.
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 10:02 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: They (Americans) can't see why they are hated
No but here has been quite a lot of IRA fund raising activities in the US.
There's estimates of about 2/3rds of its money comes from the US. A lot of
people seem to think that giving to the Irish widows and orphans mean
funding IRA bombs and ammunition.
larry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 9:36 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: They (Americans) can't see why they are hated
>
>
> Where do you get this "the IRA has been funded by America"?
>
> The US government has never supported the IRA.
>
> H.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 1:45 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: They (Americans) can't see why they are hated
>
>
> I don't think anyone is trying to say that the US deserved
> this attack.
> But, one cannot view this attack in a vacuum.
>
> Perhaps now is too early to start critiquing American foreign
> policy, but I
> do hope that that will be something that Americans can do in time.
>
> American foreign policy has created them many enemies in the
> world. And I
> have
> to say that for Bush to call this the first war of the 21st
> century is,
> quite frankly,
> an insult to those people fighting and dying in war around
> the globe, and a
> reflection of something of the attitude that the article
> refers to. What he
> really means is
> that this is the first war for America of the 21st century.
>
> It's also interesting to note that the IRA, a terrorist
> organisation that
> has carried
> out many terrible bombings and attacks has been heavily
> funded from the US
> historically.
> One would assume that this support will now cease??
>
>
>
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