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| Irish Leader Condemns Killings, Says 'Psychopaths' Won't Disrupt Peace |
| 2009-03-16 |
| Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen said the recent killings of two British soldiers and a police officer in Northern Ireland were carried out by "a few fools" and "psychopaths" whose actions do not threaten peace in the province. Of course they do. If they're running around killing people, that's not peaceful by definition. "People have made it very clear there is no support for this," Cowen said in an interview Friday. "This is a small number of very misguided, criminal people who obviously think it's a good idea to shoot people." Speaking ahead of a trip, starting today, to the United States, where he will meet with President Obama at the White House, Cowen said Northern Ireland is a "totally transformed" province where violence is no longer tolerated. "This has nothing to do with politics," he said. "The reforms that we've seen bedded down in Northern Ireland, the political developments we've seen there over the last 11 or 12 years, have proven resilient against all attacks." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The nine arrested include two well-known Irish republicans detained Saturday. The arrest of Colin Duffy, 41, triggered weekend riots by his largely teenage supporters in the town of Lurgan. Police also arrested Declan McGlinchey, 32, son of Dominic "Mad Dog" McGlinchey, who once boasted of killing more than 30 people as leader of an IRA splinter gang called the Irish National Liberation Army. Former INLA colleagues killed him in 1994 in front of his son. Mad Dog killed too many? Didn't kill enough? Got a little gabby? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-03-16 13:38 |