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Police in the Irish Republic say they have arrested five suspected IRA dissidents and seized a weapons-making factory at a remote farm.
Officers found metal tubes and other parts for making vehicle-mounted heavy mortars and pipe bombs.
Originally posted by Reaper2137
yeah stop people fighting for their freedom.. eh.. could be worse.. I hope they get their goals with out having to kill too many people..
Originally posted by Reaper2137
reply to post by Misterlondon
I would say yes it is for freedom.. I know the history I know my own country's history as well.. 1/3 wanted freedom from the brits 1/3 didn't 1/3 could care less..
while I never said there was an easy solution.. I just said that in their quest for freedom they didn't kill too many people..
and than in a later post talked about the cost. if it was worth it.. so please don't shoot off the mouth.. at me
Originally posted by Misterlondon
Originally posted by Reaper2137
reply to post by Misterlondon
I would say yes it is for freedom.. I know the history I know my own country's history as well.. 1/3 wanted freedom from the brits 1/3 didn't 1/3 could care less..
while I never said there was an easy solution.. I just said that in their quest for freedom they didn't kill too many people..
and than in a later post talked about the cost. if it was worth it.. so please don't shoot off the mouth.. at me
Nothing personal mate.. But everyone has an opinion on this subject but most don't know a thing about it..
I have lived through the Ira bombing London, innocent lives lost, woman and children.. In shopping centres and public places.. Six of my friends were nearly killed in an explosion in ealing, London, on a Friday night in a busy area full of bars and clubs.
They are not freedom fighters but terrorists, no different to bin laden or any of the others..
Which country are you from? I'm assuming America?
Wether you are or not doesn't matter, America were big supporters of the Ira terrorists, even corperations like mcdonalds donate money to the cause..
And just so you know, London was bombed regularly by these people, but it's funny now, once America suffered some terrorism on home soil, it was a different story.. Now America fights terrorism, I saw in another of your posts you fought in Iraq, so apparently you fight terrorism too... But.. That's wrong because The way you put it, These people are only fighting for there freedoms..
Originally posted by realistsee
british soldiers were deployed onto the streets in the north in the 60s to protect the catholic minority from protestants rioting there homes and discriminateing against catholic republicans. soon the british soldiers also turned on the catholics.basicly it goes back hundreds of years of irish opression from the brits. the fact is that if the catholics in the north were treated equaly from the time of the british soldiers being deployed there would not of been 30 years of anger and bloodshed and no one would of cared less weather they were part of the u.k or ireland. basicly the brits started it just like they started it in every othr nation they invaded but us tough irish gave um a hell of a fight . erin go bra (ireland forever)
Originally posted by lektrofellon
reply to post by dbriefed
Although i dont agree with the actions of the british soldiers on bloody sunday,bombing populated civilian areas is the actions of terrorists
I hardly see that as a good point. since the Ira and the Brits have been fighting since long before the word terrorism or terrorist were even coined..
and just like the middle east..
Originally posted by lektrofellon
reply to post by Reaper2137
I hardly see that as a good point. since the Ira and the Brits have been fighting since long before the word terrorism or terrorist were even coined..
Terrorist,Its just a word,it doesn't mean they didn't exist before it was invented,the word mingeweasel was created 30 seconds ago, yet you have been one all your life.
and just like the middle east..
I have gathered you're pro provisional I.R.A.(Pro Terrorist) from the fact you slated my last post, so tell me are you pro al-qaeda aswell,did you aplaude when 3000 of your countrymen were murdered by terrorists?