'Peace' Thugs Plan to Invade Airport

national | miscellaneous | news report Thursday February 27, 2003 10:21 by Niamh O'Connor - Sunday World

Sunday World, p.16 February 23, 2003

Taken from the Sunday World.

THIS is the shocking true face of Ireland's hardcore "peace" campaigners.
The Sunday World obtained these shocking images as Tanaiste Mary Harney called an element of the anti-war campaigners "Anti American".
The shots, taken at a peace demo in Shannon last month, show one protester sporting a balaclava and a tee-shirt with the horrific image of a plane crashing into the World Trade Centre under the slogan: "Nice Shot."
A cohort sporting a punk hairdo brandishes a flag stencilled with images intended to incite onlookers to anarchy - an Uzi sub-machine gun and a Kalashnikov rifle.
Other protesters burned US flags as ordinary peace campaigners on the march, including Labour's Michael D. Higgins, looked on in shock.
The Sunday World can also reveal that die-hard anti-war groups are planning a massive invasion of Shannon next week.
Plans are afoot for hundreds of radical protesters to invade Shannon Airport next Saturday.
A giant peace demonstration is planned at the airport, but we can reveal a split has emerged among the movement, with two opposing camps of hawks and doves.
A Sunday World investigative team infiltrated one anti-war meeting in Dublin during the week - and learned there are plans for protestors in mass numbers to scale the fences at Shannon Airport.
Many of those planning to visit Shannon were among the demonstrators at the Reclaim The Streets day in Dame Street last year, and have gone to anti-globalisation marches on the continent.