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- From: halpin@vax.oxford.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.celtic
- Subject: Re: Casement update
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.110849.11489@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 11:08:49 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.205436.22011@e2big.mko.dec.com> <CC.93Jan22103744@arran.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <C19GJC.HLp@dcs.ed.ac.uk> <1993Jan22.163836.20542@e2big.mko.dec.com>
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- In article <1993Jan22.163836.20542@e2big.mko.dec.com>,
- holohan@mark.enet.dec.com (Mark Holohan) writes:
-
- > March 16, 1988 - Loyalist gunman launches a gun and grenade attack on
- > the mourners at the funeral of the Gibralter Three. Three people
- > were killed and over thirty injured.
- >
- > March 19, 1988 - Unarmed mourners at the funeral of Caoimhin
- > Mac Bradaigh attempted to defend themselves against
- > another armed intrusion.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Absolute bollox!
- The soldiers stumbled into the funeral, and then panicked. Given
- the circumstances, the crowd *reacted* as if this were another
- attack.
-
-
- > The occupants of the car produced guns (I've a
- > photo of one of the undercover British soldiers drawing his weapon
- > to shoot on the unarmed crowd).
-
- The gun wasn't produced until after the attack was well advanced,
- and was produced in misguided, and ultimately fatal, self-defence.
- It wasn't to "shoot on the unarmed crowd".
-
- And the soldiers weren't "undercover", they were off-duty. It was
- simple gross stupidity to be where they were, and to react like
- they did.
-
-
- We could do without jerks like you painting everything in
- doctrinaire black and white, because then the real issues in the
- grey areas get lost.
-
- Brendan
-
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