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Date Posted: Wed, Jan 17 2007, 12:48:52 PST
Author: Suzanne Breen-Sunday Tribune
Subject: Latest PSF MI5 pre-election con-trick
In reply to: Republican Sinn Fein 's message, "Martyrs would not have joined RUC/PSNI" on Wed, Jan 17 2007, 12:42:02 PST

ia_pl32@hotmail.com Printed: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 12:44 PM
Sent : Monday, January 15, 2007 11:33 AM

Subject : Sinn F�in bizarrely claims MI5 appointment as victory

Sinn F�in bizarrely claims MI5 appointment as victory

(by Suzanne Breen, Sunday Tribune)

The appointment of a British peer, who supported no-jury Diplock courts and the lengthy detention without trial of terrorist suspects, to a role in annually reviewing MI5 in the North, has been bizarrely hailed as progress by Sinn F�in.

The party last week listed the appointment of Lord Carlile, to reviewing MI5's operation in the North, as one of the gains it made in negotiations with the British.

It comes as Sinn F�in met yesterday to discuss holding a special ard fheis to endorse the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). Gerry Adams has recommended the party stage the ard fheis on January 28, despite the DUP's refusal to agree to devolving policing and justice powers to the Assembly.

Lord Carlile's record makes him an unlikely candidate for Sinn F�in not to oppose in the MI5 role. The Sunday Tribune can reveal that Carlile has supported Diplock courts in the North for each of the last five years, and has backed the 90-day detention without trial of terrorist suspects in Britain, which was vigorously opposed by civil liberties groups.

Carlile's annual review of MI5 will be in consultation with the Stormont First and Deputy First Ministers, and future Justice Minister. This development was one of seven 'advances' outlined by Sinn F�in policing spokesman, Gerry Kelly, last week.

The SDLP and former mainstream republicans have expressed amazement at what Sinn F�in settled for in their negotiations with the British on MI5's future role in the North.

SDLP policing spokesman, Alex Attwood, said: "The SDLP has no desire to make it difficult for Sinn F�in to sign up to policing. However, Sinn F�in should be honest and admit it is colluding with the British to hide the fact MI5 has been given an expanded role in the North with virtually no accountability. Under the Blair-Adams deal, Nuala O'Loan will not be able to investigate MI5."

Veteran North Antrim republican, Laurence O'Neill, who recently resigned from Sinn F�in, said Gerry Kelly was talking "pure nonsense" when he said last week's developments meant MI5 was now closer to leaving Ireland. "If they are leaving, why have they just built a new multi-million pound base here?" O'Neill said.

Meanwhile, republican sources have told the Sunday Tribune that a relative of INLA hunger-striker Patsy O'Hara is likely to stand against Sinn F�in in March's Assembly elections in Foyle on an anti-PSNI and anti-Agreement ticket.

Willie Gallagher of the INLA's political wing, the Irish Republican Socialist Party, declined to comment on the matter. Gallagher's brother Paul, a former member of the mainstream republican movement from Strabane, is also planning to stand against Sinn F�in in the elections.

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