Could Shannon be a target of al-Qaida? Does Shannon matter in upcoming elections?

international | anti-war / imperialism | news report Thursday April 15, 2004 11:13 by Glomar

Could Shannon be a target of al-Qaida?

Could Shannon be a target of al-Qaida? Does Shannon matter in upcoming elections?

This question has been raised more and more since the Madrid bombings - of course no one really knows the answer.

Now Osama is offering a truce to any European country that removes its troops from Muslim countries. Ireland does not have any troops in any Muslim countries (maybe Bosnia?) but is used by the US to transfer American troops in Muslim countries.

The FF/PD government has pretended to be 'neutral' while giving Bush everything he wants. How much longer can this not appear to be hypocritical to the muslim world and to Osama bin Laden himself?

Message from Osama bin Laden (supposedly):
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040415/D81V35C80.html
"I announce a truce with the European countries that do not attack Muslim countries," .... "The truce will begin when the last soldier leaves our countries," .... "They say that we kill for the sake of killing, but reality shows that they lie," .... "Stop spilling our blood so we can stop spilling your blood," the message added. "This is a difficult but easy equation."

The Spanish election was not about Iraq as much as it was about Anzar's lies blaming the ETA for the bloodshed caused by al-Qaida, but the result has been a summer withdrawal from Iraq by Spain (but not from Afghanistan) and al-Qaida believing it can split the west by offering a truce.

The Irish anti-war movement (upper and lower case) has failed to make Shannon an issue for the elections in two months time. The movement is either led by the Troskyite Left, which believes in elections only so far as they are a means to building their Political Party or is led by an Anarchist tendency which, of course, does not believe in elections at all!

This leaves 'the masses' uninspired to send a message to FF/PD's in June and has allowed the FF/PD's to use a 'democratic' referendum to scapegoat black brown and yellow Irish children to distract voters from the government's own incompetence, corruption and colonisation by the US/UK agenda.

For these reasons, among others, US use of Shannon will continue, Ireland could one day be a target of al-Qaida and this 11 June election will not be a 'Referendum on Shannon'