Iraq Warship at Dublin Port

international | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis Tuesday June 20, 2006 14:37 by P - Panaite

UK largest warship is coming to Dublin

Normally you do hear about these type of visits until very soon to the date, so this is interesting. Daily Ireland reports HMS Ocean which has played a critical part in the early months of the Iraq invasion is coming to Dublin Port later this month.

A British Royal Navy ship that was involved in the invasion of Iraq will dock in Dublin port later this month.
HMS Ocean was deployed as part of the British task force supporting the US invasion of Iraq.

Anti-war activists last night criticised the visit of the British naval war ship.
“I would be very concerned about this visit if the ship has been involved in the invasion of Iraq,” said Roger Cole, chair of the Peace and Neutrality Alliance (Pana).
“If it has been involved in Iraq then I would think that this is just as bad as US military airplanes using Shannon airport.”
Pana will be hosting a meeting with the Irish Anti War Movement and the NGO Alliance this Saturday to discuss how to make the military use of Shannon a general election issue.
He said he would raise the HMS Ocean visit at that meeting.

see http://dailyireland.televisual.co.uk/home.tvt?_scope=Da...opp=1