Sinn Fein Ard Comhairle congratulates Mary Kelly

by P. O'Neil's nextdoor neighbour Sat Feb 01, 2003 22:19

To the bold lads who ripped the heart out of Omagh:

I will probably never know who you are - but you know.

I'll tell you who I am. My name is Gwen. I am the mother of Alastair who is the bravest person I know. We and all the other victims of your ambush last Saturday would like to know 'why?'. I went to Hell and back lying injured in the debris and water and blood not knowing if my 12 year old son was alive or dead. By God's grace he survived and that is why I am lying here able to write. I wish you could have heard that child crying inconsolably yesterday as he struggled with the pain from his severed limb. That was what ripped at my heart. However, we are two of the lucky ones, for which I thank God. We do have a future.

You may have broken the bodies of the people of Omagh, but you can never break their spirit.The last line of one of my favourite songs is - "God is watching us...from a distance." You can run but you cannot hide.
-Gwen Hall's open letter to the 'Real' IRA written from her hospital bed

Also....

"There were bodies strewn all over the street. It was like a battlefield of burning flesh and dead bodies, with a burst water main spraying everywhere. I helped lift six bodies out, and did all I could for some of the injured. People - men, women and children - were lying on the road, dazed and bleeding. People were groaning, children were crying and there was an overwhelming smell of burning flesh."
-Survivor Testimony

by Des Sun Feb 02, 2003 18:42

It is truly sick, indeed obscene for any person to attempt to utilise the carnage that was inflicted on the people of Omagh in order to try to smear the anti war movement in this country. The number of people who died in Omagh was in two figures, over a million people have died in Iraq, including over HALF A MILLION CHILDREN. The lives of Iraqi people are just as valuable as the lives of Irish people. What happened to the people of Omagh has been inflicted on the Iraqi people for over a decade, the only difference being that the means of doing so were more sophisticated. The ruling elites in Britain and the U.S. condemned the Omagh bombing while at the same BOMBING Iraq and inflicting a sanctions regime resulting in the deaths of people who were just as innocent as the victims of the Omagh bombing. The very same governments who expressed their outrage re Omagh had no problem in supporting the campaign of genocide directed against the people of East Timor, (they provided the weapons that were used by the Suharto regime). The very same governments had no problem maintaining good relations with Saddam Hussein after he used chemical weapons at Halabja. Condemnation of the crime perpetrated at Omagh while at the same time supporting the forthcoming Bush/Blair resource war is cynical in the extreme.

Afghan children “liberated” by the U.S. airforce.

by Republican Sun Feb 02, 2003 22:38

Of Course RSF and the Continuity IRA had nothing to do with Omagh. They spoke out against such actions. It was the so called RIRA.