Exploiting the case of mistaken identity that got him arrested in Israel, Sean O Muireag pushes his agenda.
The suspected Irish bomb-making expert who was arrested by security forces near Ramallah last Saturday, arrived home in Belfast on Thursday declaring himself "flabbergasted" by his ordeal.
"They were saying, 'You're a terrorist and you're here to train people on how to make bombs.' I was flabbergasted - I couldn't understand it," Sean O Muireag in told a news conference in Belfast.
O Muireag in, who denied ever being a member of the IRA or involved in the Irish republican movement, said "everybody seems to have taken their [Israel's] word. All of a sudden I was the bomber, and now I'm an IRA man. It's not true."
The Irish nationalist, a pro-Palestinian activist who was said to have been working as a journalist for a Gaelic-language newspaper while seeking to establish Irish-Palestinian cultural exchanges, was arrested in Israel after a tip-off by British security forces.
How malicious of those Israelis, to have taken the word of the British security forces that O'Muireag was a wanted IRA bomb expert instead of just a rabble-rousing pro-palestinian "activist." I certainly hope he wasn't inconvenienced much.
(sarcasm off)
Shabbat Shalom.
