IRELAND: PALESTINIAN TERROR HAVEN

Bush Furious at Ireland's Terror Haven - Maeve Sheehan and Jody Corcoran (Sunday Independent-Ireland)
Jihad Jara, described as one of Israel's most wanted men, was granted safe haven in Ireland under an international agreement to end the siege at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in 2002. The Palestinian terrorist was supposed to be monitored but he managed to leave Ireland and travel to Spain for several weeks last year until he was picked up by Spanish authorities and forcibly returned to Ireland. However, U.S. officials, including the CIA, are suspicious as to what he was doing in Spain. NBC's Dateline assigned an investigative team headed by Lisa Myers to prepare a broadcast probing the activities of Jara and other suspected terrorists in Ireland. According to government sources in Dublin, the program-makers claimed to Irish justice officials that Americans suspect Jara of continuing to direct terrorism while in Ireland, and cited senior figures in Bush's administration as being unhappy with Ireland's response to its concerns.