Shannon and the flights of mass destruction

NOW that it has been confirmed by State documents that missiles containing high explosives came through Shannon airport, why won’t the state come clean and tell us just how often this occurred, and to whose benefit? During the massive military build-up and bombardment of Iraq there was a huge number of chartered cargo flights working for the military. Indeed the US air mobility command spent $650 million hiring civilian aircraft to move weapons, etc., for the war.

One would have good reason to suspect that these civilian aircraft hired by the military were carrying all sorts of explosives and weapons used to kill large numbers of Iraqi people.

How many more government documents have we yet to see before we get the full picture of Ireland’s real role in George W Bush’s bombing of Iraq?

How many of the bombs that fell on Iraq went via ‘neutral’ Ireland? How many times has the safety of Shannon been compromised by another secret shipment of deadly explosives?

No wonder the Freedom of Information Act got the chop. As usual, we’re the last to know what Bertie told Bush and Blair.

Tim Hourigan,

12, Cedar Court,

Kennedy Park,

Limerick.