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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: aladin who wrote (115034)9/17/2003 5:54:46 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Not so John. <Britain makes a fuss because they don't have a death penalty, but has a long history of killing terrorists while capturing them (IRA etc).>

It used to impress me how Britain would capture IRA terrorists, by waiting for them to give up. Sending in food and negotiating a surrender. They did that many many times. Which is why there were plenty of prisoners in prison in a position to go on hunger strikes.

The comparison with the crazy mad Yanks who would have a huge turkey shoot was like night and day. The Americans shoot first and negotiate later. They couldn't even catch David Koresh and cronies at Waco without an insane turkey shoot and mass gassing and fry up of heaps [literally] of children, women and some wacko religionists.

The first I recall of on the hoof killing of IRA was in Spain, where there was no intent to take them prisoner. I think that was in response to the bombing of Brighton and the killing of Mountbatten and a few other instances of IRA attacks. Usually, IRA people were arrested rather than killed. The British were very good at doing that. Heck, in fairness to the IRA, they weren't always barbaric. The IRA used to issue warnings to enable evacuation [often]. Not at Omagh though. Nor the Tower of London. Nor at Brighton. Nor with Mountbatten.

Mqurice
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