New York Post
OSAMA'S SOUL BROTHER

November 10, 2002 -- Gerry Adams, the head of Sinn Fein/IRA, was around town
last week - basically flipping the bird to America's war on terrorism.
Obscenely, he had a lot of help.

Thursday, he was the guest of honor at a $500-per-plate Sinn Fein fund-raiser
at the Sheraton hotel in Manhattan.

And on Friday, he was feted at a reception hosted by New Jersey Gov. Jim
McGreevey himself - at the governor's official residence, no less.

Adams' quest for American cash comes on the heels of a Sinn Fein/IRA statement
strongly opposing an American-led war in Iraq - and calling on Ireland to
refuse America permission to use its airspace and seaports.

No surprise there: Like birds of a feather, terrorists stick together, too.

* Three IRA men, two of them acknowledged Sinn Fein officials, are about to go
on trial in Colombia for training FARC terrorists.

* IRA booby-traps were found in the West Bank scant months ago.

* Adams' current visit comes only days after the IRA cut its ties with the
international arms-decommissioning body headed by Canadian Gen. John de
Chastelain - pulling down one of the main pillars of the Northern Ireland peace
process.

* If that weren't bad enough, a year ago the Sinn Fein/IRA newspaper An
Phoblacht editorialized that the 9/11 attacks were America's fault.

* The paper has maintained a similarly anti-American stance ever since. More
recently, in opposing a possible U.S. war against Iraq, it editorialized: "We
already know that George W. Bush is out of his mind, and that he is inclined to
make difficulties worse instead of solving them. It seems likely that the Bush
authority wants to keep the whole world under control, with the biggest bombs
he has."

The paper is entitled to its opinion, to be sure.

But many Irish-Americans - some naively, some just out of romantic foolishness
- tend to block out such ugliness. They blind themselves to the simple fact
that Sinn Fein/IRA undertakes its "struggle" in alliance with any number of
international terrorists. Indeed, PLO and Basque ETA killers are regular
attendees at Sinn Fein annual party conferences.

Let there be no misunderstanding on this point: This anti-American,
pro-terrorist organization raises enough money here in the United States to
make it the best-funded political party in the Irish republic. But it is money
that will be paid for in blood somewhere in the world.

The fools and fanatics who regularly send cash to the IRA should be ashamed of
themselves. In the end, it's their own business.

But for the governor of a state that lost so many of its sons and daughters on
9/11 to participate in the collection of blood money is beyond grotesque.

Perhaps more to the point, the United States of America has one wholly reliable
ally on this troubled, turbulent and dangerous planet: Great Britain.

This is because America and Britain share ideals and goals that are rarely
found elsewhere, even among the other western democracies. Neither nation
always lives up to these animating principles, of course, and therein lie the
roots of the Irish peoples' historic antipathy toward London.

Yet to the extent that the rest of the world embraced Anglo-American values, it
would be a better place.

Gerry Adams not only refuses to accept those principles, it has been his life's
work to make war on them.

He has earned the disapprobation of civilized people everywhere - and certainly
not the hospitality of New York and New Jersey.

"Killers on the Cocktail Circuit"

Unknown source

Terrorism isn't unique to Islamic extremists. Even some nice people in Dallas have been seduced by it. Two years ago, Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein leader, came through Dallas on a fundraising tour. He was feted at cocktail parties and featured in interviews on the local news. I suppose nobody thought it polite to mention that on July 21, 1972, a bomb in Belfast killed nine people and wounded several hundred more.

The Provisional IRA's Belfast Brigade claimed credit. The brigade commander was none other than Gerry Adams. Sinn Fein is the political agency of the IRA. So even if Dallas cocktail party guests didn't know Gerry Adams' personal history, they could have suspected that the hand they were shaking had once been dipped in blood. Why then did they shake it? Why did his hosts even invite him here? Why did the television stations give him fawning coverage? It's a strange world, and nothing about it is stranger than the way we have accommodated terrorists in our midst. Maybe it's because they never set off any bombs here. Maybe it's because we've never had to see the carnage they wreak on our nightly news. On a fateful day in September, Americans learned a hard lesson much of the rest of the world already knew.

The thing about terrorists is that they are willing to look agreeable. They are willing to smile for the cameras. They are even willing to shake hands at cocktail parties. And they are certainly willing to cash the checks of credulous Americans. They are also willing to make promises. Adams was invited twice for discussions at the White House because the IRA promised to give up its arms. Of course, it didn't. And of course, it won't. Instead, the IRA terrorists used the negotiations as an opportunity to extend their reach.

In August, three IRA members were arrested in Columbia, where they had been advising the Columbian guerrillas. It turns out they have been secretly training guerrillas in Columbia for years, probably in exchange for drug money. While Gerry Adams was sipping sherry at the Clinton White House and shaking hands in Dallas, the IRA has been exporting terrorism for profit. The investment dollars required to make this possible-every business needs investment-may have come from cocktail parties in Dallas. I can understand how faithful Muslims must feel about Islamic terrorists. As a Roman Catholic, I feel the same way about the IRA and Sinn Fein. For years we've heard about Catholic vs. Protestant in Northern Ireland. The IRA would like us to keep thinking that way, to keep the money flowing from dim-witted American Catholics. But Gerry Adams is no Catholic. Neither are the psychopaths and street thugs who make up the IRA. Their creed is power, and their weapon is death. The bombs they set off are atheist bombs, because there is no such thing as a Catholic or a Protestant bomb.

Yet Muslims must wonder what kind of awful religion Christianity is that it causes so many people to want to kill and maim each other. Mass murderers are not a unique feature of Islam. And the money for mass murder can come from anywhere, even cocktail parties in Dallas.

Fellow terrorists Gerry Adams and and Fidel Castro