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Israel questions alleged Irish bombmaker
Israel has arrested a suspected Irish bombmaker in the West Bank and is questioning him about the extent of his contact with Palestinian militants. British and Irish newspapers had reported earlier that a hunt was underway for a former Irish Republican Army (IRA) bombmaker suspected of training Palestinian militants in the West Bank. Israel has been on alert for attacks by foreigners acting on behalf of a 33-month-old Palestinian uprising since two British Muslims carried out a suicide bombing at a Tel Aviv nightclub in April, killing three people. According to reports in London's Observer and Dublin's Sunday Independent, the suspect had been a member of the mainstream IRA guerrilla group but switched allegiances to the dissident Real IRA splinter group four years ago. The papers say he entered Israel on a British passport and slipped into the West Bank. Palestinian links with Northern Ireland stretch back to the early days of the three-decade conflict between Catholic republicans fighting to end British rule and Protestant loyalists committed to maintaining it.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-07-14 |
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