Two Congressional Witnesses Murdered/Nelson Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit Congressman Chris Smith made a point of telling everyone at the Congressional Hearing in Washington that he had called and the FBI was no longer involved in the Rosemary Nelson investigation and had never been more than superficially involved. This is all a screen set up by Ronnie Flanagan as a cover-up. He hinted at calling up the FBI Director Louis J. Freeh to ask him why he went along with this. We should definitely encourage this line of thinking. It would certainly bring more attention and interest from the press. He also told the hearing that Pat Finucane had testified before a Congressional Committee just before his assassination. This is a point that is little known and should be stressed. Two Congressional witnesses, lawyers in the North of Ireland, murdered after testifying before the U.S. Congress about the abuses of the RUC. Ned More Mainland Police Called To Aid Lawyer Murder Probe PA 04/23/99 12:06 Copyright 1999 PA News By Ian Graham, PA News. More detectives from outside the Royal Ulster Constabulary are being drafted into Northern Ireland to join the murder squad hunting the killers of human rights lawyer Rosemary Nelson, it emerged today. But Ulster Security Minister Adam Ingram ruled out any steps being taken to remove the RUC from the investigation of the solicitor's death in Lurgan, Co Armagh last month despite growing calls for such a move. Mr. Ingram said the "bottom line" was that in the opinion of English officers and the FBI "RUC involvement is essential" to the success of finding the loyalist bombers who planted a booby trap device under Mrs. Nelson's car. He said Norfolk Deputy Chief Constable Colin Port, who has been sent to Northern Ireland to lead the murder investigation, was drafting in extra officers from the mainland. "The team currently includes 14 members from outside the RUC whom he picked, and this number is set to increase," said Mr. Ingram . There have been mounting calls for the removal of the RUC from the investigation because of allegations made by Mrs. Nelson before her murder that her life had been threatened by members of the RUC. Her widower, Paul Nelson, repeated the call for an independent inquiry in a statement read to a US Congressional Committee meeting in Washington last night. "If the RUC or other security forces were involved in collusion in the murder, this must be exposed," he said. "If they were not, they have nothing to fear from any independent inquiry," Mr. Nelson added. Mr. Ingram, writing in the Belfast Telegraph, said what Paul Nelson and others were calling for was an independent international investigation as well as a judicial inquiry. They wanted truth and justice, and he could not agree with that more. But he said: "Only a criminal investigation by the police will achieve that and I believe that the investigation now led by Colin Port is best placed to do so." ---- However, Mr. Ingram faced calls for his resignation from hardline unionists after he suggested any witnesses unwilling to deal with RUC officers in the investigation should contact the international inquiry team instead. Northern Ireland Unionist Party leader Cedric Wilson accused the minister of "undermining public confidence in the RUC" in his article. The Assembly member for Strangford said: "By suggesting members of the public should go to other outside officers, he is giving credence to the view that the RUC is not to be trusted. "What kind of message does that send out, not just to members of the public but to members of the force? This is the latest in a series of gaffes by Mr. Ingram. He really must go." ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytire-04.25.99-12:59:24-22008