Re: News
wintermute, on host 172.189.237.89
Sunday, March 3, 2002, at 04:52:28
Re: News posted by Faux Pas on Saturday, March 2, 2002, at 20:01:00:
> > > Freezing the assets of several militant Irish terrorist groups doesn't count? Geez. > > > > It probably would count. Did this happen? Why hasn't it been publicised? Has it reduced the arsenals of these groups? > > It did happen. However, it was back when we were bombing the snot out of the Afghani landscape and "bombs exploding on the terrorists that did this" makes for more entertaining news than "freezing bank accounts", so guess which one got the the lead story and which was bumped back to page 15. > > -Faux "Plus you can show pictures of bomb craters." Pas
Thanks for the heads-up on this one. I'll see what I can find about it. Although I'm suprised that a story about the IRA wouldn't get good press in England; although there were long periods when there might not have been a world outside Afganistan so far as the press were concerned.
winter"searching as I speak"mute
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