Allister reponds to IMC report
18 September 2007
Statement by Jim Allister MEP:
“The latest IMC Report yet again displays a willingness to overlook matters which are inconvenient for the political process.
1. The continued existence of the IRA Army Council is ignored. As I pointed out in April following the publication of the last IMC report, this blind eye approach does not do anything for the credibility of the Commission.
2. The last IMC report did at least mention the IRA’s much talked about but soon forgotten “ill-gotten gains” (“we remain unable to determine how the organisation is dealing with the question of previously illegally gained funds") but they, like Dr Paisley, seem now to have forgotten about them.
3. In July I wrote to Lord Alderdice providing him with correspondence I received from the PSNI confirming that the life of Larry Zaitschek’s wife was still under IRA threat. Despite an assurance that this matter would be discussed by the Commissioners there is no mention of it in the latest report. Why?
4. The report amounts, also, to a whitewash on the threat posed by “loyalist” paramilitaries, considering that in July a policeman was shot by such.
Today’s report does little to dispel my view that that the IMC is little more than a sock puppet of government.”
