"Insurgency" compared with IRA on US National Public Radio

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Thursday February 24, 2005 20:51

by Our Los Angeles Correspondent - IMC Internationale

Interview with co-author of Time Magazine article

State Department correspondent for Time Magazine "Elaine Shannon" talks on National Public Radio about a recent story that she and Mike Weare were involved with reporting on talks between "US intelligence" and "insurgency leaders". During her interview she talks about how the Sunni resistance may model themselves on Sinn Fein/IRA. Audio up soon on http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/index.shtml
Time Magazine article on:

"Although they have no immediate plans to halt attacks on U.S. troops, they say their aim is to establish a political identity that can represent disenfranchised Sunnis and eventually negotiate an end to the U.S. military's offensive in the Sunni triangle. Their model is Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, which ultimately earned the I.R.A. a role in the Northern Ireland peace process. "That's what we're working for, to have a political face appear from the battlefield, to unify the groups, to resist the aggressor and put our views to the people," says a battle commander in the upper tiers of the insurgency who asked to be identified by his nom de guerre, Abu Marwan. Another negotiator, called Abu Mohammed, told TIME, "Despite what has happened, the possibility for negotiation is still open."

Juan Cole (U. Michigan professor of Middle Eastern History) and others point out that the US military cannot and is not controlling Iraq, that they can't travel on the roads etc and that talks with the insurgeny/rebels/resistance is a logical step.

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I didn't think it was complimentary to the IRA or Sunni

Wed Mar 02, 2005 04:11

Does that mean that NPR is OK then? Really, read the article, follow the links. Don't rely on the other posters take on it. They're not as clever as you and I.

NPR

by irish cultural attache in san francisco

Wed Mar 02, 2005 03:10

irishculturalattache at gmail dot com

is a complete joke in the USA. The same old crap. It does a tremendous discredit out intelligence to provide any kind of justification for either the murdering scum that SinnFiend-IRA are, or their fellow fundamentalists murderers in Iraq.
Face it, the IRA have been exposed as criminals, and the Iraqi resistance has COLLAPSED following the brilliant exercise in democracy in January. Dream on, indymedia suckers... have you noticed there is no Indymedia Belfast or Indymedia Baghdad.

McDermott

by Ed

Tue Mar 01, 2005 19:19

So a Sunni organisation with links to terrorists seeks to emulate the 'struggle' of the IRA/Sinn Fein in recent - Well if the murder of old age pensioners, men, women and kids and general thuggery and thievery are what they're about, they'll be reading the right history alright - g'on the RAfia

Oh, and I think you might find that Mao, Castro and Giap may have had more of an influence on writing the book of guerilla warfare

npr

by peter

Tue Mar 01, 2005 18:06

If only some Americans actually listened to National Public Radio.

This site says it all!!

by Rooster

Mon Feb 28, 2005 22:29

Check this site for information on situations vacant in Sin Feinn.

http://www.portadownnews.com/

yeah well

by mise

Fri Feb 25, 2005 14:53

michael collins and tom barry wrote the book on guerilla warfare, sure thats wha tthey mean.

Imposter

by Wha?

Fri Feb 25, 2005 04:24

"Our Los Angeles Correspondent - IMC Internationale"

I think you are losing the run of yourself, giving yourself a grandious title like that. Are you the creature that sometimes posts as 'Toneore'?

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