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Identity mix-up cause of West Bank arrest?

February 16, 2011

By Staff Reporter

The New York Post headline screamed: ?Israel Nails IRA Big ?- Bomb maker trains Palestinian terrorists: officials.?
But this time the story has turned out somewhat differently from that of the three Irish republicans currently on trial in Bogota charged with helping local guerrillas.
The man arrested near Ramallah was Sean O?Muireagain, otherwise known as John Morgan, an Irish language enthusiast and Palestinian solidarity activist.
According to Chiaran O Pronntaigh, editor of the West Belfast-based Irish-language newspaper L

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