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To: aladin who wrote (115090)	9/17/2003 6:00:31 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

John, I think I'm real enough. Not much cognitive dissonance. Things go pretty much as I expect. My point was that in the 1970s, there was more of a wait them out, arrest them, prosecute and gaol attitude. Then, I suspect after the Brighton bombing in October 1984, there seemed to be a change. Or maybe it was after the murder of Mountbatten. Those examples you mentioned weren't extra-judicial killings. The Spanish ones were. Maybe arrest of them would have been problematic and assassination was the best option. I'm not at all keen on anything extra-judicial because there's no test of a person's guilt. We just have to "trust them" and I don't trust "them". Sometimes though, I suppose there's no realistic alternative. Extradition isn't always possible. "Stake-knife" was a good plant! When I used to walk to work in London in 1974 and there were bombed shops every few days and we'd all be keeping an eye on unattended briefcases or parcels, the conflict seemed almost civilized. It deteriorated though and the Tower of London bombing is what sealed the fate of the IRA as far as I was concerned. I remain hopeful that Gerry Adams and sidekick will be blown up by a bomb. Omagh wasn't Gerry's idea, but birds of a feather .... Now the USA has reduced support for the IRA and Clinton isn't getting Irish-American votes by pandering to terrorists. King George II won't be supporting IRA freedom fighters either. He's gaoling those who fund them. Rightly so too. It's nice to see the USA finally join the WAT but a shame it took the Twin Tower destruction to make them see the light. They won't be funding Chechen freedom fighters now either! They finally figured out that Russia is more of a friend than Islamic Jihad - nearly 20 years too late. Mqurice