Yearly Archives: 2009
An invasion planned as a military coup
Published: April 1 2007 For a military operation which its commanders felt was blessed by God and the Virgin Mary, the conquest of ‘Las Malvinas’ by the Argentine junta got off to an inauspicious start. Around midday on 2 April 1982, the official raising of the blue and white national Argentine colours outside the Governor’s residence was interrupted when the flag got stuck halfway up the pole, snapped, and slid downwards. Two smaller flags – representing the Argentine navy and the 25th Infantry Regiment that had formed the main invasionary …
To bomb or not to bomb, asks the IRA.
Published: 25 June 1997 Sinn Fein may lose last excuse not to condemn violence. The word in west Belfast’s republican strongholds is that several “volunteers” have not been seen for days. Although some IRA activists continue to plot guerrilla tactics as they always have, an equal number – if not more – are engaged in one of the most critical internal debates in the republican movement since the run-up to the August 1994 ceasefire. At issue is whether the movement abandons once and for all its twin-track strategy of the …