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Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 21:50:56 +0100
To: "Peoples War" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Peoples War] Red Action: RIRA - Desperate Times, Desperate
Measures
RED ACTION - www.redaction.org
REAL IRA - DESPERATE TIMES, DESPERATE MEASURES
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5th August '01
The brouhaha about the Ealing bomb needs to be put in
context. First there is the pretence that this is something special;
'spectacular' proof that the real 'Ira are back in business'. And along with
this the hype that the bomb was 'the biggest yet', 'the biggest for five
years', 'could have been another Omagh' etc, while the articles go on to
suggest that these are all reasons to suspect the real Ira has developed a
greater capacity to carry the war than was evident before. Some articles
went so far as to associate the single bomb with the description 'wave'.
Even the SUN, for once used a 'news item' to lead with on its
front page. For the effort of putting a 50kg parcel of home-made explosives
in a car, the real Ira got not dissimilar
publicity to the actual IRA when it blew up the City of London - twice -
within a year. The question is why?
One obvious reason of course, is that the bomb was in London,
rather than say Magherafelt. But even taking that into account, given that
loyalists, puportedly on ceasefire, have killed twice in matter of weeks,
and all the real Ira actually managed, was to blow out a couple of shop
fronts, the coverage has been wildly disproportionate.
Reading the editorials does indicate that for the British
establishment, or a significant section of it, the proposed re-articulation
of the Good Friday Agreement is not good news.
Too 'green' by far apprarently. Even talk about an 'impartial civic police
force' is just another 'concession to republicans' according to the Daily
Telegraph. All such commentary is agreed, that what with the 'rise in
terrorism' this single bomb reflected, now would be a particularly
injudicious time to have any truck with disbanding the RUC special brach,
the removal of spy-posts in South Aramagh, or de-militarisation. In fact
what was needed, one paper argued was 'more troops' not less.
In all the politically motivated bombast, the startling
disparity between how elusive the bombers appear to be once they cross into
the British occupied territory has drawn little attention. It used to be
argued before the IRA ceasefire in 1994, by these same papers incidentally,
that it was the Irish Gardai who were 'soft on terrorism'.
These days when it is the Gardai who are enjoying the
phenomenal and unprecedented success against the 'terrorists' and when it is
the British who have apparently gone soft, or soft-headed, there is not
even a muted grumble.
On the odd occassion there is need of one, the explanation
offered, is that 'the Irish have so succesfully penetrated the real Ira with
informers'. This has lead to countless initatives
being thwarted, with no less than 56 arrests, including much of the alleged
leadership being apprehended we are told. No such success rate for the
British though. Quite the reverse.
Not even for example the Omagh bombers. Can the British
afford no informers of their own? Or are we to believe that because of the
ceasefire, RUC/MI5 no longer collaborate with their colleagues south of the
border, who have them in bountiful numbers?
Pre-1994 right-wing editorials railed at the complacency of
the Gardai. Today there is not a hint of criticism against the British
security forces failing so dismally against such a rag-bag outfit. No. 'What
we actaully need is more troops'. What, in Ealing? That 'more troops' and
all that goes with it is precisely what the real Ira wants, is not
mentioned. For the obvious but embarassing reason that the Daily Telegraph
leader writers, the UDA, the refuseniks in Unionist Party, AND the real Ira
share a common objective: the end of the SF sponsored peace process, and the
return if possible to normality, even if that means a return to war.
For all concerned, the SF inspired peace process, just as
former Unionist leader James Molyneaux feared it would, has proved deeply
'destabilising'.
According to the The London Evening Standard: "The central
problem for the British and Irish governments is that they cannot
convincingly argue that the terrorists are wrong, when violence has already
won Sinn Fein rewards beyond anyone's wildest imagining's a decade ago."
This is a fairly accurate reading of a "political situation"
it then describes as "desperate." Which just might explain why a tiny
splinter group, without popular support, riddled with
informers, and tripped up at every turn in the Irish Republic is apparently
able to go about it's business unhindered in Britian.
Desperate times, desperate measures
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