AN UNNAMED group has claimed responsibility for breaching security at Shannon airport last week and damaging an aircraft used by US military personnel.
Operated by Omni Air International – which has a contract to transport US Air Mobility Command personnel – the plane was sprayed with the words “US troops out” after a security fence walling a disused runway was breached, the Clare Herald reports. It is believed one of the plane’s hydraulic pipes was severed in the incident.
Yesterday, however, the monthly bulletin of the Galway Alliance Against War reproduced the content of a “handwritten communication we received from one of the members of the peace team that sabotaged a US troop transporter at Shannon warport”.
The alliance claimed to have verified that the person who sent the letter participated in the action.
The letter stated: “It was appropriate to carry out this peace action in Christmas week, when the media and politicians’ speeches, the world over, are full of hypocritical Christian cant about peace, while they support and even profit from wars in far-off lands.” It outlined how the unnamed group was dropped off at a perimeter fence at “Shannon’s warport” and then cut through two fences to enter the airfield.
It said those involved made their way towards the target aircraft under cover of darkness.
It is understood a Garda investigation was continuing.
