Rainbow Warrior ringleader heads firm selling arms to US government

[friendly_iconoclast]

Source: Guardian Unlimited website


· Greenpeace campaigning for deportation
· Former French agent has never denied fatal attack

Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Friday May 25, 2007
The Guardian

The French intelligence officer who led the 1985 bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, the Greenpeace ship protesting against nuclear tests in the Pacific, now lives in America where he heads an arms firm selling weapons to the FBI, Pentagon, and the department of homeland security, the Guardian has learned.

The presence in America of Louis-Pierre Dillais and the sensitive nature of his dealings with the US government has led to calls from Greenpeace for his deportation...






Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2087877,00.html

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I guess the meaning of 'terrorist' depends on who gets terrorized.

[Richard Steele]

1. I agree with your conclusion, and can I just add: "MISLEADING HEADLINE MUCH???"

That headline sounds like it's the CAPTAIN of the RW
who's now an arms dealer!

"Rainbow Warrior Ringleader"? :wtf:

That's just about as completely OPPOSITE of
reality as can possibly be!

This shithead was NEVER the Rainbow Warrior "ringleader",
he was the ringleader of the Rainbow Warrior BOMBING,
fer Chrissakes!!!

That's like calling Usama binLaden the "World Trade Center Ringleader"!

Who the hell wrote that headline, and what
EDITOR approved it?

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. 'ringleader' is never applied to a captain

If it just said 'leader', I could see your point, but as soon as I saw 'ringleader', I thought of the bombing.

[jilln]

15. but as more and more activists are being labeled terrorists

"ringleader" is not uncommon.

The headline is misleading. That's clear because several of us have said so.

[donco6]

7. That's what I thought too. n/t

[kiki]

14. The Guardian is about as left-wing a paper as you'll ever come across.

There are issues of space when writing headlines, so you do have to shorten phrases and make certain literary "leaps" and assumptions. The Rainbow Warrior case is so famous that the mere phrase brings to mind the bombing as much as the ship itself, and speaking as a sub-editor - one of the poor shmoes who has to write the headlines - I think that's the thought process that the author of this headline would've been going through.

[micraphone]

3. I'm from NZ...

... trust me, this still rankles here - big time. We were sold out by the (now deceased) PM over trade, but the cavalier treatment and spiriting out of detention by the French of the only 2 of the team caught, was (and still is) egregious.

This creep was found by a NEW ZEALAND television team (alluded to in the article) for GP to pursue. Which they did, rightly. It has notgone unnoticed here either - our own govt has bought stuff off them.

I guess, even 20-odd years later, we still wonder why we were attacked by an actual ALLY on our own soil. This has not happened in the US of A, so how would YOU feel?

Get his ass out - please. THAT would be justice.

[Chemical Bill]

11. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

Some of us have our feelings that we were attacked by our own government on our own soil. And even within the official paradigm, Bin Laden was an ally in the 1980s. We understand your feelings.

Bill

[clixtox]

13. Forty Years Ago...

The Israelis attacked the USS Liberty in international waters and killed 34 US Navy sailors. This shameful act has been covered up and pretty much forgotten. Check it out...

[Flagg]

4. What's illegal about selling weapons to the US government ?

[micraphone]

5. Umm .. absolutely nothing....

... but would you really feel comfortable about buying arms from someone you absolutely know committed a terrorist act against an ally (you)?

You might but in NZ we certainly don't.

[Chemical Bill]

12. A terrorist such as Dillais...

shouldn't be in the country, or should be serving time, let alone not be allowed to possess weapons or sell them.

Bill

[SpiralHawk]

6. The legend of the rainbow warriors

http://www.chiron-communications.com/communique%207-9.html

" The rainbow story is told many ways and in many different places around the world, including on Turtle Island (North America). It has been glimpsed in vision and told for hundreds of years, from dozens of perspectives..."



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[The Backlash Cometh]

8. So, did that creep serve time?

[lonestarnot]

9. Get the fuck out terrorist!

[SteppingRazor]

10. Google "luis posada carriles" sometime...

harboring terrorists is what we do. Helluva war on terror we got going here, eh?

[lvx35]

16. Oh c'mon. With a name like "Operation Satanique" how bad could his actions have been?

Probably just a little freindly murder between pals. :sarcasm: