An Irish man arrested in the West Bank appears not to be an IRA terrorist. The Israeli daily Ha’aretz originally reported that the man arrested for allegedly training Palestinian terrorists is John Morgan, reported to be a member of an IRA splinter group. But according to a Ha’aretz report released Monday, the man arrested is not a dissident Northern Irish terrorist but Sean O’Muireagain, a reporter for a Belfast Catholic paper and a well-known activist for the Belfast-based Palestine Solidarity Committee. Sean O’Muireagain is the rough Gaelic equivalent of John Morgan.
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