Congress probes IRA link to Iraq

[sabra]

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=683244

Congress probes IRA link to Iraq

It was just another St Patrick's weekend in Washington. The Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern presented shamrock to President George Bush, the Northern Ireland political parties continued to bicker over who is responsible for the latest impasse, and green beer was drunk by the gallon.

However, a new cloud hangs over the legacy of the Troubles and the alleged role played in a number of deaths by both American and British security agencies.

The claim - if true - threatens a new political storm over how and why FBI officials and MI5 operatives conspired to supply deadly bomb-making equipment to the Provisional IRA in the early 1990s, mechanisms the paramilitary organisation later shared with Palestinian fighters.

Today in Iraq the same technology is being used by insurgents to kill and maim British and American soldiers.

[HereSince1628]

1. In a small world, you can't get far enough away to avoid blowback

Reap the wind, harvest the storm...

[grytpype]

2. Holy blowback Batman!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

3. Why would the FBI and MI5 operatives supply the IRA with....

...with anything, much less bomb-making equipment?

Does this story pass the smell test? IMHO, no, it does not.

[Nevernose]

4. So "they could then introduce counter-measures"

I thought it smelled like bullshit, too, and it probably IS bullshit, but the following section is so incredibly stupid that it could only have been pulled off by American intelligence agencies.

...he had flown to New York, met FBI and MI5 agents and was given money to buy an infra-red device to be used to set off IRA bombs.
...
"They knew the IRA was looking at the technology. By supplying the equipment, they thought they could stay one step ahead of the IRA," Mr Fulton told the IoS yesterday.

...Matthew Teague claims FBI sources have confirmed Mr Fulton's trip to the United States.

The IoS has also spoken to a republican who was a senior IRA member in the early 1990s. He confirmed that Mr Fulton had introduced the IRA to the new technology and that the IRA shared this with "like-minded organisations abroad".

[monktonman]

5. ummmmm......Bullshit!

[MrPrax]

6. I guess Steak Knife didn't tell them everything

Maybe Congress can subpoena the members of FRU to shed more light on all this...