{"id":60597,"date":"2015-07-06T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=60597"},"modified":"2015-07-05T12:20:52","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T11:20:52","slug":"the-tunisia-massacre-and-the-irish-isis-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/07\/the-tunisia-massacre-and-the-irish-isis-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tunisia Massacre and the Irish-ISIS Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 30, 2015<\/em> – \u201cThe murder of three Irish citizens at a tourist resort in north Africa has brought Islamic terrorism much closer to home,\u201d [reporter]\u00a0Cormac O\u2019Keeffe observes in the Irish Examiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil now we have looked on in shock, and revulsion, at terror attacks targeting other Europeans, either across the Middle East and North Africa, or on European soil. However, with the slaughter on the beaches of Tunisia of Lorna Carty, and Laurence and Martina Hayes, this is a landmark moment for this country.\u201d The report continues:<\/p>\n

Martina\u2019s brother Billy Kelly told the media: \u201cWe feel bitter. Irish people have nothing to do with these terrorists. The people who did this are evil rats.\u201d He said the couple\u2019s daughter, Sinead, had lost two parents in an instant: \u201cThe sadness is terrible. It\u2019s a nightmare.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIreland has now been dragged into a terrible reality, one that much of Europe \u2014 Spain, Britain, and France among them \u2014 has had to live with for more than a decade,\u201d O\u2019Keeffe adds. Although the Irish Examiner reporter appears to be merely stating the obvious, Ireland had been close to Islamic terrorism long before the Tunisia massacre. And contrary to the bereaved Mr. Kelly\u2019s sincere belief that the Irish have nothing to do with these evil rats, some Irish people have had quite a lot to do with these terrorists. But one would need to turn to a much keener Irish examiner of terrorism to know these things. In a Facebook post three days earlier, Al Lonergan<\/a> connected the dots:<\/p>\n

The following image provides information regarding an Irish citizen\u2019s connection to an alleged leader of ISIS in North Africa and a terror funder in Syria. However it is unlikely that the Irish media will want to mention this fact as they promoted this guy as a \u201cfreedom fighter\u201d while he was serving the NATO agenda in destroying Libya and Syria, but the chickens are coming home to roost.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"mahdi-al-harati-montage<\/a><\/p>\n

Moreover, not only did Mahdi al-Harati serve the NATO agenda in Libya and Syria, an Irish tabloid in 2011 had outed \u201cthe gentle Irishman\u201d as an asset of American intelligence. According to a \u201cyou couldn\u2019t make this up\u201d\u00a0Sunday World<\/a> report,<\/p>\n

A gang of Irish traveller thieves are in the middle of a holy war \u2013 after liberating \u20ac200,000 cash destined for Libyan rebels. In a tale worthy of the John le Carre thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the scam artists from Rathkeale in Co Limerick hit the jackpot when they robbed a home in Dublin\u2019s Firhouse. As well as a haul of family jewels, they stumbled upon \u20ac200,000 in \u20ac500 bills hidden in the hot press. But the homeowner was well-known Irish Libyan freedom fighter Mahdi al-Harati, who was one of the leaders of the bloody revolt against Gaddafi. He has told cops that the cash was a gift from US secret agents to aid the war effort in Libya.\u00a0Now the money trail has led to the traveller strongholds in Rathkeale, where \u20ac500 notes have been popping up all over the place. A gang of rogue Irish travellers is in the frame for the bizarre robbery of \u20ac200,000 in cash donated by US spies to Libyan freedom fighters. In an astonishing tale worthy of the John le Carre novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the cash that was destined for rebels fighting Colonel Gaddafi\u2019s forces was stolen from a hot press in a Dublin house. Gardai are now investigating the extraordinary robbery which is being blamed on a traveller gang from the Limerick town of Rathkeale. An Irish freedom fighter who helped bring down Gaddafi\u2019s hated regime in Libya has claimed that \u20ac200,000 cash stolen from his Dublin home was given to him by an American intelligence agency. The Sunday World can reveal that gardai are investigating the robbery of two envelopes containing \u20ac200,000 in \u20ac500 notes from the home of Mahdi al-Harati in Firhouse, south Dublin, and that the money trail is leading to the Rathkealers. Al-Harati was in Libya following the successful campaign that toppled Gaddafi when the rebel\u2019s house was broken into on October 6.<\/em><\/p>\n

The incredible curriculum vitae\u00a0of the\u00a0\u201csoft-spoken Libyan-born Irish citizen\u201d doesn\u2019t end there either. Four days later, Indymedia Ireland<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

Mahdi al-Harati has been well-known in antiwar and Palestine solidarity circles in Dublin over the years . He had been a passenger in the Challenger 1 ship last year when it attempted to break the seige of Gaza as part of the Free Gaza Flotilla . He was the last Irish member of the flotilla to arrive home after the Israeli raid and was given a hero\u2019s reception at Dublin Airport by members of the IPSC and the IAWM [Irish Anti-War Movement]. According to an indymedia comment from last year written by Kev from the IPSC: \u201cFreda Hughes of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign welcomed his safe return and saluted his bravery: \u201cAl Mahdi, like all of the Freedom Flotilla participants, is deserving of our praise for his courage in attempting to break the illegal siege of Gaza and deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged people there. We are all relieved that he is safely back in Ireland. We hope that his family, who we know were extremely worried about his health, can rest easy now and celebrate his return..\u201d\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

It appears that at least on this occasion Israel\u2019s propaganda<\/a> was right in claiming that some of those on board the Free Gaza Flotilla had ties to terrorism networks<\/a>. They just forgot to mention that at least one of them<\/a> was on the payroll of U.S. intelligence.<\/p>\n

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Maidhc \u00d3 Cathail is a widely-published writer<\/a> and political analyst. He is also the creator and editor of the Passionate Attachment blog<\/a>, which focuses primarily on the US-Israeli relationship.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 thepassionateattachment.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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