[Media-watch] FW: News 02/28/03 -Horror - Mother's Disgust As Her Son's KillersTo Be Let Loose InGulf

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From: rdooling at swbell.net
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 07:47:22 -0600
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Subject: News 02/28/03 - Accused Spy is Model Civil Servant

IrelandClick.com

North Belfast To Say No To War

North Belfast anti-war groups are mobilising with a series of
meetings and protests against the threatened war in Iraq.

Schools, work places, unemployed groups, families, individuals of
all ages and local politicians have been invited to attend a public
meeting in the Belfast Unemployed Centre on Wednesday night.

Brenda Callaghan from the North Belfast Trades Union Forum said the
meeting for North Belfast people was to bring all groups together
who were against war on the Iraqi people.

"All are welcome and we would ask anyone from North Belfast to come
along so we can get the area represented for many more activities
in the coming months with the anti-war coalition which organised
the big anti-war rally last month," the North Belfast woman said.

The event will begin at 7pm at the venue beside the John Hewitt bar
in lower Donegall Street.

Journalist:Staff Reporter

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IrelandClick.com

Horror - Mother's Disgust As Her Son's Killers To Be Let Loose In
Gulf

Jean McBride, the mother of murdered Belfast teenager Peter
McBride, has expressed horror that the two soldiers who murdered
her son will be let loose in the Gulf.

The British MoD recently announced the Irish Guards, the regiment
Scots Guardsmen James Fisher and Mark Wright are on secondment to
in Germany, were being deployed to fight in the pending war on
Iraq.

The Irish Guards based at Oxford Barracks in Muenster, Germany, are
to be sent to the Gulf shortly despite the largest anti-war
protests ever seen in the world.

A British army spokeswoman refused to confirm if the two who were
convicted of the 1992 murder on the New Lodge Road were among the
530 soldiers en route to the Gulf, but did confirm that the "whole
battalion" would be deployed.

But Jean McBride said that the decision exposed the lies of the
British army when it said the soldiers would not be put into the
same situation as they had been in North Belfast when they gunned
down the teenage father of two.

"Mark Wright and James Fisher, the two soldiers who murdered my son
are based with the Irish Guards at the Oxford Barracks in Muenster
in Germany," said Jean McBride.

"So Tony Blair is sending convicted murderers off to fight a war.
The Ministry of Defence justified retention of these men by
promising that there 'was no danger of repetition' since the two
would not be based here again.

"God help the young people of Baghdad or Basra if soldiers with a
track record of shooting unarmed teenagers in the back are being
sent out. There is every danger of repetition if these two are put
back on the street with guns and a license to kill.

"If the New Lodge was too much for them the mind boggles at how
they will react in Iraq. How many civilians will they shoot in the
back because the 'security situation is tense' or because they have
been warned about the danger of Iraqi coffee jar bombs? I am
seeking urgent legal advice to find out if can we take action
against the MoD on this," said Jean McBride.

Journalist:Staff Reporter

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