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Derry Journal

Tuesday 26th July 2005

An unknown Protestant civil rights group is planning to stage a protest on the route of next month’s Apprentice Boys parade through Derry city centre.

Police have confirmed that a group called Protestants Against Republican Aggression (Para) has formally applied to hold a protest on August 13 at Ferryquay Street.

The group says it wants to “highlight the provocative campaign led by convicted republican terrorists who annually disrupt loyal order parades in the city by threatening public protests.”

For the past few years, the annual ‘Relief of Derry’ march in Derry has passed off without serious incident - thanks to a talk process involving the loyal order and nationalist residents chaired by local businessmen.

The Apprentice Boys is refusing to comment on the proposed protest, as is the police, who would not be drawn on how they would treat a potential rally.

Chief mediator in previous talks, businessman Garvan O’Doherty, also declined to respond.

Meanwhile, spokesman for the Bogside Resident Group (BRG), Donncha MacNiallais, said that he “won’t be taking any notice” of the proposal.

In a statement, Para said its aim on August 13 will be to ” highlight the civil rights issue on behalf of the victims of republican terror, who annually, as part of the Apprentice Boys festival parade in this city as loyal order members, have to suffer spitting, verbal and physical abuse and the photographing, video recording and targeting of themselves and their associates by republican elements”. Para has given notice to the PSNI that it expects 500 people to turn out for the protest between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. at Ferryquay Street.

During the return leg of this month’s Orange Order “Twelfth’ demonstration through Derry’s city centre, rival groups clashed in the vicinity of Ferryquay Street.

Derry Journal

Tuesday 26th July 2005

Police are believed to have stepped up patrols in the Waterside as fears mount that a deadly feud in Belfast between the UVF and LVF could spread to the North West.

The ‘Journal’ has learned that the PSNI is bolstering its presence in loyalist areas in a bid to prevent any potential confrontation between rival groups.

One loyalist source confirmed that any further deterioration of the situation in Belfast could have “an ominous knock-on” effect in the Derry area.

It is believed police are taking all necessary steps to stave off a wave of bloodletting between the UVF and LVF locally.

Yesterday, dozens of UVF associates gathered in the Garnerville area of east Belfast as the loyalist feud plaguing the city worsened.

It followed an earlier bomb attack and a deliberate fire in North Belfast linked to the feud.

It is understood some people have left their homes in Garnerville over the feud.

A senior loyalist was quoted as saying that UVF members went to the area on Sunday night and warned those with LVF links to leave.

Already, two lives have been claimed in the dispute between the two groups.

At the weekend, PUP leader David Ervine predicted that the feud was going to get worse.

SDLP leader and Foyle MP Mark Durkan last night branded the ongoing feud “dangerous.” “I have already written to the Secretary of State urging him to review the UVF ceasefire,” he said.

“People cannot be allowed to murder and maim and expect the rest of us to turn a blind eye.

“Only recently, the UVF shot a young man and it now seems that they have carried out two other serious attacks. They must be called to account politically and through the criminal justice system.”

Mr. Durkan said loyalists were “up to their necks in attacking vulnerable communities –and poisoning their own with drugs.” “That is why the two governments must bring real pressure on the UVF and other loyalists to wind up all their activity - now and for good,” he added.

“While the police and the Assets Recovery Agency have scored some successes against loyalists, loyalists have been let off the hook by the political process. Just look at last year’s failed Sinn Fein/DUP deal - it did not deal with loyalist terror at all.

“The SDLP is the only party to have published a detailed strategy for closing down loyalist paramilitaries.

“It is time that this strategy was fully implemented - and loyalists were put under real pressure to wind up or be closed down.”

Derry Journal

Joe Doran
Tuesday 26th July 2005

Provisional IRA held a top level meeting in the Brandywell area of Derry last week at which key decisions were taken on the organisation’s future, the ‘Journal’ has learned.

It has emerged leading IRA figures met with rank and file members in the Brandywell ahead of a ground-breaking statement which the movement is expected to deliver on Thursday.

The meeting took place in the same week the Irish Finance Minister, Brian Cowen TD, travelled to the city to address a business conference.

Republican sources have told the ‘Journal’ the meeting was one of the most important since the IRA began conducting an internal debate following Gerry Adams’ call for it to “embrace democracy”.

Earlier this year, the Sinn Fein President said he believed the way forward was by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and internationally.

Mr. Adams said the struggle had “reached a defining moment” and he appealed to members of the IRA to move forward.

Following the call on April 6, the IRA said it would give due consideration to the appeal and kick-started a massive internal debate.

A source said yesterday: “The meeting in the Brandywell area last week saw [the IRA’s] top figures brief members on what will happen this week.

“It was a crucial meeting, one of the most important yet, and key decisions were taken that will change the face of the IRA as we know it.”

It has since been reported that Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness and Martin Ferris are no longer members of the IRA army council.

The Irish Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell, has been told by senior security officials that the three resigned in a major reshuffle of the IRA’s ruling body.

A Sinn Fein spokesperson played down suggestions a meeting took place in Derry, adding: “I know nothing about it.”

The party also said it would not get into speculation on whether an IRA statement outlining its commitment to pursuing its aims through purely political and democratic means is imminent.

However, hopes that the IRA will make a ground-breaking statement have been raised by reports that Martin McGuinness will travel to the US later this week, and the IRA statement may coincide with his visit.

The continued presence in Ireland of Canadian General John de Chastelain - the head of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning - is also fuelling hopes of a significant development within days.

Daily Ireland

By Jarlath Kearney
j.kearney@dailyireland.com

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Blast bombs, arson attacks, shootings, mass expulsions and death threats have collectively marked a sinister escalation in the activities of loyalist paramilitaries across the North.
The long-running loyalist feud led hundreds of Ulster Volunteer Force supporters to openly intimidate several prominent Loyalist Volunteer Force-linked families from their homes in the Garnerville area of east Belfast.
The expulsions took place on Sunday night directly opposite the PSNI training centre. Yesterday, scores of UVF supporters maintained a presence in Garnerville. PSNI and British army members did not intervene.
A house and a taxi office were targeted in separate blast-bomb and arson attacks in north Belfast on Sunday night. Those incidents followed several gun attacks over previous days.
Within hours of the expulsions, several north Belfast Catholics — including veteran Ardoyne republican Martin Meehan — received PSNI visits to advise them of imminent loyalist death threats.
Fears were growing last night that the deteriorating situation within the loyalist community will be exploited to launch attacks on republicans. In the past, similar loyalist attempts to destabilise the nationalist community have been directed by elements of the British government.
With the IRA nearing the climax of an unprecedented internal debate about future political strategies, the possibility of a loyalist attack on the nationalist community led to calls for vigilance.
Kathy Stanton, Sinn Féin assembly member for north Belfast, described the death threat against Martin Meehan as “part of a wider trend of intimidation by loyalists aimed at the nationalist community”.
“These latest threats against my party colleague from unionist paramilitaries is a sinister development,” Ms Stanton said.
“The threats against Martin Meehan reinforce the need for vigilance within the wider nationalist community in these tense summer months.
“Those who continue to coat-trail and march triumphantly through Catholic areas must also bear some responsibility for the continuing escalation of sectarian tensions,” Ms Stanton said.
Republicans also highlighted the “historic tolerance” of loyalist activity by the PSNI, British army and unionist politicians.
Ms Stanton said: “The sight of hundreds of UVF members pictured mingling with the PSNI and British army after forcing members of a rival gang from their homes in east Belfast is just the latest episode in this ongoing saga.
“The behaviour of the PSNI in Garnerville today contrasts sharply with their attitude towards nationalist residents in Ardoyne on July 12.”
Martin Meehan, whose family has been repeatedly targeted by loyalist paramilitaries, last night hit out at the PSNI for refusing to provide details of the group that was threatening him.
“I am contacting my legal advisers about the failure of the PSNI to provide me with information about the source of the threat. Those responsible for this threat will not deter me and I will continue to robustly defend the political objectives of Sinn Féin,” Mr Meehan said.
After a meeting with secretary of state Peter Hain, south Belfast MP Alasdair McDonnell said: “Just today we have seen the UVF yet again run amok in their feud with the LVF.
“It is outrageous that they feel so emboldened that they can gather and intimidate people in broad daylight. It is outrageous that, 11 years on from the ceasefires, people are expected to turn a blind eye to all of this madness.”
Henry Irvine, the PSNI district commander in east Belfast, said: “These situations, as we often say, cannot be resolved by police alone. But let me assure you my officers are on the ground and are working hard to resolve the tensions.”

Sinn Féin

Published: 26 July, 2005

North Antrim Sinn Féin Assembly member Philip McGuigan has accused the head of the PSNI in Ballymena of being little more than a mouth piece for those loyalist gangs who are waging a campaign of violence against local Catholics in the area.

Mr McGuigan said:

“Last night unionist paramilitaries once again went on a rampage of violence against Catholics and nationalists in Ballymena, Martinstown and Rasharkin. The local PSNI Commander in response to this provides a rational that all of these attacks are linked to a proposal from a local flute band to march in Ballymena in August.

“He conveniently ignores the history of violent attacks in North Antrim carried out by unionist paramilitaries and his comments providing a rational behind what was little more than sectarian violence is disgusting. I have been contacted by local people today angry at the comments made and the fact that he ignores the real cause of the violence. This violence has little to do with a parade. It has all to do with an irrational hatred of Catholics and nationalists and the atmosphere which has been created in places like Ballymena by local unionist politicians and indeed by the PSNI.

“If this is an issue about a parade then let us as local representatives sit down with those proposing the parade route and seek a resolution to the issue. But even in that context nobody believes that all of a sudden the ongoing loyalist campaign against Catholics in North Antrim would be turned off. Given these remarks and the role open the PSNI in the UVF take over of a Belfast housing estate it is now becoming clear that the PSNI are part of the problem also.” ENDS

Irish Democrat

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BreakingNews.ie

26/07/2005 - 14:17:21

The five men jailed over protests against a pipeline from the Corrib gas field off the Mayo coast are the only people with the power to resolve the dispute, it was claimed today.

The landowners were sent to prison for contempt of court after they refused to comply with an order banning them from blocking Shell E and P Ireland access to their farms.

As the men began their fifth week behind bars Andy Pyle, Shell Ireland chairman, said it was difficult to see a way forward unless they purged their contempt.

“We have looked at all the alternatives that could make a breakthrough here, as I say it was very clear in court yesterday that nothing could be done until the five landowners purge their contempt,” Mr Pyle said.

“I think the case is clearly in their hands.”

Mr Pyle revealed Shell were investigating claims that they had breached a consent agreed with the Government over the high-pressure pipeline near Rossport, Ballina.

Officials in the Department of Natural Resources were unhappy that welding work had begun on the pipeline without permission. It is understood the company were only granted rights to begin preparatory work on the pipeline.

Shell believe starting the welding works was a technical breach and would not constitute a flagrant breach of any consents granted by the department.

On Saturday Noel Dempsey, Minister for Natural Resources, said he believed the company had breached the permissions it was granted and had asked the company for an immediate response.

The investigation is due to be completed tomorrow.

“As a company we have been meticulously careful over the whole life of this project to comply with all of those consents,” Mr Pyle said.

“We have to look very carefully and give and a full response back to the minister as we are committed to do in the next day or two.”

Mr Pyle told RTÉ Radio that he was surprised that the five men were serving time in jail. Mr Justice Joseph Finnegan, President of the High Court, sent the men back to prison for a fifth week after they failed to purge their contempt.

The men, brothers Philip and Vincent McGrath, Micheál Ó Seighin, Willie Corduff and Brendan Philbin, are in contempt of a court order banning them from blocking Shell E and P Ireland access to their land.

The judge told the men it was up to them to purge their contempt before any progress could be made.

Tendering for a full safety audit of the pipeline is to close at the end of the week. The review of the high-pressure line is due to take at least eight weeks.

BBC

**Here’s your ‘Well, duh’ report

Loyalist paramilitaries were behind a spate of attacks on Catholic churches and Catholic-owned pubs in County Antrim, according to police.

Chief Inspector Stephen Martin warned that if the “madness” did not stop, someone would be killed.

A bar was targeted by arsonists in Martinstown and the remains of petrol bombs were found at a pub in Rasharkin. Three Ballymena churches were targeted.

Mr Martin said the attacks were linked to a republican parade in Ballymena.

Crebilly Catholic church on the outskirts of Ballymena and All Saints Church on the Broughshane Road were daubed with paint in the attacks.

The remains of a petrol bomb were found at the Glens Way Tavern on the Glenravel Road in Martinstown early on Tuesday.

The bar was badly damaged in the arson attack.

“This wave of anti-Catholic sectarian attacks is simply the latest in a long line of attacks on Catholics and nationalists in north Antrim.”
Philip McGuigan
Sinn Fein

Mr Martin condemned the attacks on church property as “absolutely disgusting and disgraceful.”

He added: “I would call on all people of influence in the Ballymena area, whether elected or non-elected, to use their influence in a very positive way to bring this madness to an end.

“If it doesn’t come to an end, I fear that someone will end up losing their life.”

However, he would not be drawn on which group was involved in the attacks.

“It’s loyalist paramiltary and we’re looking very carefully at who is involved,” he said.

The republican parade is due to take place in Ballymena on 9 August. The Parades Commission is expected to issue a ruling about it on Thursday.

Blast bomb

SDLP assembly member Sean Farren and party councillors Declan O’Loan, PJ McAvoy and Margaret Gribben issued a joint statement condemning the attacks.

“A concerted attack has now been launched on the Catholic community in the Ballymena area by people who are intent on raising community tension,” they said.

“This situation has reached a dangerous level and calls for a clear stand to ensure community relations are not damaged beyond repair.

“Community leaders within the loyalist community have a clear responsibility to use all their influence to end these attacks.”

Sinn Fein assembly member Philip McGuigan said: “This wave of anti-Catholic sectarian attacks is simply the latest in a long line of attacks on Catholics and nationalists in north Antrim.

“Unionist politicians and, in particular, the DUP are in denial about the levels of ongoing anti-Catholic intimidation which is coming from within the unionist community.”

However, police do not believe a blast bomb attack on a house on the Antrim Road in the town is linked to the other incidents.

The device was thrown at the front door shortly after midnight, causing minor damage to the house.

Twelve neighbours were moved to a church hall after Army technical experts were called in.

They were allowed back to their homes at about 0400 BST. Police are keeping an open mind as to the motive.

Belfast Telegraph

By David McKittrick
26 July 2005

Housing estates with 100 men or more milling about on the streets; extra police patrols; homes and businesses shot at and attacked with bombs; above all, two men shot dead.

Belfast’s Protestant para-military strongholds are again gripped in one of the bouts of sporadic feuding which erupt in the loyalist underworld, claiming lives and causing much social disruption. Such violence is a familiar part of the Belfast landscape: each year of the past decade has seen killings resulting from them, usually of active loyalists.

Two feuds are boiling, one of them centring on disputes within the Ulster Defence Association, the largest grouping. But the one causing most worry involves the Ulster Volunteer Force, another large grouping apparently intent on wiping out the smaller Loyalist Volunteer Force.

The UVF is generally regarded as the least bad of the loyalist groups, largely because it is the most political of the paramilitary organisations and supports the overall peace process. But it is still a violent organisation involved in organised crime, whose feuding with the LVF frequently flares into open violence. In recent weeks, the UVF has killed two men, one of whom had no obvious LVF connections.

The LVF, which broke away from the UVF in 1996, was initially involved in many sectarian killings but is now regarded as essentially a straightforward drugs gang. A senior loyalist said yesterday: “LVF criminality goes into rapes, drugs and all that. The UVF is saying this has to stop and is trying to mop all of this up. Maybe there should have been one night of the long knives years ago; that might have sorted a lot of this out.”

The UVF has been targeting Ballysillan in north Belfast and Garnerville in the east, areas where LVF members and supporters tended to cluster. At Ballysillan, a loyalist taxi firm was firebombed and two houses were pipe-bombed.

On Sunday, up to 300 people appeared in Garnerville with the intention of expelling LVF families from the district. Some families moved out; yesterday about 100 men were on the streets.

Police have been monitoring the situation with patrols and by helicopter. Ironically, Garnerville has strong security associations, as the site of the police training college.

The Government has stopped allowances due to the UVF’s political wing, the Progressive Unionist party, because of the violence. The UVF does not appear to have abandoned its political aspirations, but these have been shelved during its attacks on the LVF. The PUP leader, David Ervine, said the feud will get worse, his party had no influence and was powerless to intervene. He added: “The UVF is engaged in murder and the planning of murder. Anyone who is not moved by that isn’t a human being. It’s terrible and it must end.”

Inside the UDA, recent tensions between the north and south Belfast “brigades” led to 100 men from the north area arriving in Sandy Row in the south of the city, where there was what one UDA figure described as “a Mexican stand-off”.

This resulted from an incident in which a north Belfast UDA “got a duffing”, in the words of a colleague, in the southern brigade’s area. The incident was peacefully resolved, though the north Belfast leader’s expensive gambling habits may mean his days in a position of responsibility may be numbered.

Belfast Telegraph

Appeal to find boys who saved cockatoo

By Clare Weir
26 July 2005

A pet shop worker is appealing for help in tracing the Good Samaritans who helped rescue a valuable cockatoo from marauding felines.

Laura Smith, assistant of Pet Stop in Limavady, is “cock-a-hoop” to be reunited with her feathered friend Joey, who was stolen along with two other birds after thieves broke in last Thursday night.

Talkative Joey, whose plight was featured in the Belfast Telegraph on Saturday, was discovered in bushes at the Hospital Lane area of the town at the weekend.

Laura said a group of youths who spotted him contacted a shop customer who then recaptured the bird and delivered it safely back to the store where it has lived for 13 years.

But she wants to thank the lads, who apparently saved Joey’s life by scaring off cats that were stalking it.

“Joey is back safe and sound. He was a bit dirty and quieter than usual, but apart from that he is fine,” she said.

“The kids and customers are delighted to see him back, and so are we.

“The two rockpebblers which were also stolen must have flown off as their wings are not clipped, but then again neither are Joey’s.

“It was very good of the boys to try and protect him. He must have been so out of sorts not to have flown off and allowed himself to be caught because he is very hard to handle. So it’s possible that the cats could have got him.

“We would love to get in contact with these boys as we don’t know who they are. It would be nice to be able to thank them personally for helping us get Joey back.”

If you can help identify Joey’s saviours, contact Pet Stop on 028 7776 8805.

Belfast Telegraph

PSNI ‘not in control’: Police Federation

By Jonathan McCambridge and Deborah McAleese
26 July 2005

The UVF occupation of an east Belfast housing estate was today entering its third day, amid growing anger at police refusal to disperse the mob.

There is growing unease from within the ranks of the PSNI about the tactics being adopted at Garnerville. The Police Federation, which represents 10,000 rank and file officers, called the stand-off which began on Sunday “depressing” for its members.

There was a handful of loyalists gathered at Glenlea Park this morning, but they warned that their number would increase later in the day to ensure that LVF factions did not re-enter the area.

Police and troops continued to watch the situation but senior officers have claimed they are powerless to act unless there is a complaint made or an offence committed - a stance flatly contradicted by politicians.

Hundreds of loyalists aligned to the UVF - an illegal organisation - entered Glenlea Park on Sunday. A number of people accused of LVF associations have since left their homes.

There has been a loyalist and security force presence in the estate ever since.

This morning there was one police car and one military vehicle keeping a watch on the small number of men who had remained in the area overnight.

One of the men said all the residents they “wanted out” had now gone and would not be returning and the UVF presence in the estate would increase again by tea-time.

One resident told the Belfast Telegraph that it had been “fairly quiet” overnight. He added: “It has been quite frightening for a few families - you don’t know who they are going to tell to get out next.”

But many residents welcomed the occupation and were making tea for the men this morning.

Local resident Mary Horner said: “We are finally getting a good night’s sleep without any worries.”

But the Police Federation said officers were concerned that policing was being undermined by what was happening at Garnerville.

A spokesman said: “The concern is that demonstrably the police are not in control - what is happening is unacceptable and depressing.

“The problem is fundamental. The UVF and LVF have been allowed to thrive while the PSNI has been downsized. They should be hauled off the streets completely.

“The public perception is they are beyond the law - there should be no tolerance of their behaviour.”

SDLP Policing Board member, Alex Attwood, added: “People want to know how paramilitaries can intimidate people from their homes and are allowed to get away with it.

“The police say they need a complaint - they do not. If there is a gathering with the potential or the threat for a breach of the peace then they can act to disperse it.”

But Chief Superintendent Wesley Wilson said police were monitoring the situation and gathering evidence. “We haven’t seen any offences, otherwise we would have made arrests and we haven’t received complaints from members of the public as yet.”

Meanwhile, PUP chief David Ervine, who attended the scene yesterday, was today writing to warn Secretary of State Peter Hain against imposing cash sanctions on the party for a second year claiming sanctions would be based on shoddy intelligence on the UVF.

But SDLP deputy leader, Alasdair McDonnell, urged Mr Hain “to face up to the truth about the UVF’s so-called ceasefire”.

The South Belfast MP said: “He must take a clear stance on this. The SDLP wants all paramilitaries to go away and everybody to accept the rule of law. That must apply as much to the IRA as the UVF.”

BBC

Several overnight attacks have taken place in County Antrim.

Up to a dozen people were moved out of their homes after a blast bomb was thrown at a house on the Antrim Road in Ballymena. There were no injuries.

A bar was destroyed in an arson attack in nearby Martinstown and the remains of two petrol bombs were found outside a pub in Rasharkin.

Police said paint attacks on two Catholic churches in Ballymena were sectarian.

In the blast bomb attack, minor damage was caused to the front door of the house.

The device was thrown at the front door shortly after midnight.

Twelve neighbours were moved to a church hall after Army technical experts were called in.

Badly damaged

They were allowed back to their homes at about 0400 BST. The bomb caused minor damage to the house.

Meanwhile, the remains of a petrol bomb were found at the Glens Way Tavern on the Glenravel Road in Martinstown.

The bar was badly damaged in the arson attack.

In a separate incident, Crebilly Catholic church on the outskirts of Ballymena and All Saints Church on the Broughshane Road were both targeted.

It means all three of the main Catholic churches in Ballymena have been attacked in the last 24 hours.

Local Sinn Fein assembly member Philip McGuigan said: “This wave of anti-Catholic sectarian attacks is simply the latest in a long line of attacks on Catholics and nationalists in north Antrim.”

Local SDLP assembly member Sean Farren said: “A concerted attack has now been launched on the Catholic community in the Ballymena area by people who are intent on raising community tension.”

indymedia.ie

by Justin Morahan - Peace People
Monday, Jul 25 2005, 11:48pm

Supreme Court of Israel says No

“We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.”
(Goethe)

The Supreme Court of Israel has today refused to return letters from his time in prison to whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu. The letters are his private property. They were confiscated by the Israeli Secret Service.

Mordechai spent eighteen years in prison for revealing Israel’s nuclear secrets to the world. The first eleven and a half years were in solitary confinement.

Israel even still has a policy of “ambiguity” on its nuclear weapons, refusing to either confirm or deny their existence. The International Atomic Agency cannot inspect Dimona nuclear plant whenever they visit Israel. They are allowed, sometimes even forced, to inspect installations in other countries, but not in Israel. Israel is an exception, and the man who revealed the truth about its weapons of mass destruction is still deprived of rights and freedoms 15 months after his release from his savage sentence.

It would appear that the cruel restrictions placed on Mordechai Vanunu’s freedom since his prison sentence ended in April 2004 may be another attempt on the part of Israel to silence all voices that challenge or give the lie to their “ambiguity” policy.

But the dogs in the street know of Israel’s nuclear arsenal. In 1997 there were more than 400 deliverable nuclear and thermonuclear weapons in Israel (according to Colonel Warner D. “Rocky” Farr of the US Army). http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/israel/nuke/farr.htm

After the court case Mordechai Vanunu said: “There is no justice in Israel”. But his spirit remains indomitable.

“Stone walls do not a prison make
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage

If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free.
Angels alone that soar above
Enjoy such liberty.” - R Lovelace.

(Poem chosen by Mordechai Vanunu for hs new website)
http://www.serve.com/vanunu/