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Subject: Pro-PoW 'Raid'

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Sunday Life

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Date Posted: 18:44:06 08/13/02 Tue

>The following news was not widely reported by the
>media here and therefore the below article from Sunday
>Life (Belfast) on June 9, is worthy of distribution
>via iapl_newsroom32@hotmail.com & STORMONT-WATCH via
>www.voy.com/70381/
>
>SECURITY SHOCK FOR TELLY CHIEFS
>
>Protesting republicans spook broadcast bosses
>
>BOSSES at the BBC & UTV in Belfast have ordered a
>clampdown on security after a daylight raid by
>dissident republicans.
>
>The 32-County Sovereignty Committee � the political
>wing of the Real IRA � managed to breach security at
>the BBC�s Ormeau Avenue HQ, prompting TV bosses in
>both stations to review security measures for top
>presenters like Donna Traynor and Mike Nesbitt.
>
>It�s believed management at both the BBC & UTV have
>consulted the police about stepping up security, after
>the 32CSM took over the BBC�s reception area for an
>hour last Monday.
>
>At one stage staff feared the protestors could try and
>get into a TV studio.
>
>Police later removed the republican group.
>
>One BBC newsroom insider said: �It's an open secret
>what happened, but staff were genuinely concerned that
> the TV studio could have been taken over. People were
>also asking how a relatively small number of people
>could hold an organization like the BBC to ransom for
>an hour.�
>
>�It could have been more serious. Presenters are now
>reviewing their own security � and hoping there won�t
>be a next time.�
>
>It�s understood that within hours of the raid,
>detectives had advised senior executives at both TV
>stations to tighten staff security.
>
>32CSM spokesperson � former republican hunger-striker
>Ms. Marian Price � said the protest was to highlight a
>� media blackout� about conditions for republican
>prisoners at Maghaberry jail.
>
>She said: �This protest was to highlight what we feel
>is a media blackout of the conditions endured by
>republican prisoners in Maghaberry.
>
>�The BBC has ignored our statements and the conditions
>republicans prisoners are enduring there.
>
>�Our statements are not being used by the BBC and we
>feel it is operating a media blackout about what is
>happening in Maghaberry�.
>
>A BBC spokeswoman said: �A small group of protesters
>entered Broadcasting House in Belfast on Monday.
>Police were called and the protesters left soon
>afterwards.�
>
>A UTV spokeswoman added: �Security for our staff is
>always our priority and is continually reviewed as
>required�.
>
>
>FOOT NOTE
>
>[The amazing thing, maybe not on second thoughts,
>about this article is that it does not even make one
>specific reference to the current dangerous conditions
>in HMP Maghaberry. It also shows that while there may
>not be a total �media blackout�, reports in the print
>media, and elsewhere reflect a high degree of
>self-censorship. Media bosses, rather than individual
>journalists, are basically the ones who are to blame,
>and no doubt these policy � makers are highly
>influenced by the NIO and their British-based
>controllers.]

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