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From: ptodd@tekchips.UUCP (Philip Todd)
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Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
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Date: Mon, 5-May-86 18:41:18 EDT
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In article <908@harvard.UUCP>, greg@harvard.UUCP (Greg) writes:
> In article <1120@erix.UUCP> mike@erix.UUCP (Mike Williams) writes:
> >Many of the weapons used by IRA terrorists come from the USA and are
> >financed by money collected in the USA. Does this mean that Thatcher
> >should bomb New York?
> >
> >Mike Williams
> 
> Funding IRA terrorist is not the policy of the federal government, the
> state of New York, or the city of New York.  No building in New York
> is by any stretch of the imagination a training camp or command center
> for the IRA terrorists.
> 
> If by chance Maggie finds any person or organization responsible for
> organizing, supporting, or selling arms to the IRA, then she has the 
> right to take whatever police action she feels is necessary to stop
> those terrorist actions.  If this person or organization is in the
> United State, then it would probably be more appropriate for Maggie
> to ask the US government to take police action on her behalf; I'm sure
> the US government would be more than happy to comply.
> -- 
> gregregreg

Not true

If my memory serves me right there are a number of known (alledged to
be precise) IRA terrorists whose extradition to the UK from the USA
has been blocked by courts here, on the grounds that these are
political offences, or something of that kind.

If you were a judge in Boston, who had to face reelection, would you
send an IRA man back to the UK?

Philip Todd