INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2016 Irish priest who waved white handkerchief on ‘Bloody Sunday’ dies BELFAST: The priest who waved his white accurate in a 2010 inquiry that concluded Britain’s most notorious miscarriages of justice bloodstained handkerchief at British troops that the civilians had been killed without before being acquitted in 1991. on “Bloody Sunday” in 1972 in what became justification, prompting an apology from “Bishop Edward will be remembered as a one of the enduring images of the Northern Prime Minister David Cameron. The 1972 fearless peace-builder,” Archbishop of Irish conflict, died yesterday aged 82, the killings changed the course of the Ireland Eamon Martin said in a statement. Irish Catholic church said. Edward Daly, who “Troubles” that erupted in the late 1960s, “His untiring advocacy ... earned him went on to become a bishop and peace boosting the Irish Republican Army’s violent respect from some, suspicion from others.” campaigner, was shown on television campaign for Northern Ireland to secede Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister around the world leading a group of men from the United Kingdom and become part Martin McGuinness, who has admitted to carrying a dying youth past British troops of the Republic of Ireland. being an active Irish Republican Army who had opened fire at a crowd of Catholics A 1998 peace deal, brokered after more member on Bloody Sunday, said Daly had after a protest march, killing 13. than 3,600 had died, has largely ended the been “a constant right through the course Daly, who went on to spend 19 years as conflict that pitted mostly Catholics, who of the last 40 odd years,” noting he had Bishop of Derry and decades as a peace wanted a united Ireland, against Unionists, been critical of the IRA as well as all other campaigner, died early on Monday, the Irish mostly Protestants, who wanted it to remain sides in the conflict. James Brokenshire, Bishops’ Conference said in a statement. His part of the United Kingdom. Daly cam- Britain’s Secretary of State for Northern testimony about the events Bloody Sunday paigned for innocent victims of the “Troubles”, Ireland, said: “He was an iconic figure in civic helped garner public opinion to the side of including the Birmingham Six, who were BELFAST: In this June 14, 2010 file photo, a mural depicts Edward Daly waving a life, and he will long be remembered as a the protesters. It was rejected by the British wrongly convicted of bombing two pubs in white handkerchief as he led Jackie Duddy away from danger on Bloody cleric who worked tirelessly to promote authorities at the time, but was proved the city and spent 16 years in jail in one of Sunday, in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland. — AP peace for all.” — Reuters Germany and Netherlands to test joint missile defense operations Test could ease deployments in eastern Europe COLOGNE: Germany and the Netherlands will in an exercise at a NATO site in Crete in early The new German-Dutch concept of operations October test joint operations of their Patriot air October that will include 300 German and 100 uses the Surface to Air Missile Operations Centre, and missile defiance systems in what could be a Dutch soldiers, as well as 10 US soldiers and a US which was initially developed by Airbus Group SE model for multilateral deployments to Poland or Aegis destroyer, according to German and US for the German Air Force. The SAMOC system can the Baltic states in coming years, a top German officials. After the test, German and Dutch mili- now manage all air defiance equipment operated general said. Brigadier General Michael tary officials plan to declare their Bi-national Air by NATO members, although Soviet-style surface- Gschossmann said joint operations enabled by & Missile Defense Task Force ready for combat, to-air missile systems still used by Poland and the new approach could help NATO reassure and will offer it to NATO for future deployments. other eastern European states as a legacy of their Baltic member states and Poland, which are Baltic state officials welcomed US deployment of Communist past cannot be fully automated and clamoring for more defenses after Russia’s a Patriot battery to eastern Europe during a requires a human in the loop. annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region. series of exercises earlier this summer, but the The German-Dutch air and missile defiance Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia say they fear symbolic value would be greater if the deploy- cooperation, signed in January and known as Russian aggression should Moscow’s relations ment involved more than one country, Project APOLLO, is part of a broader series of with the US-led Atlantic alliance deteriorate fur- Gschossmann said. steps that have closely bound the two countries’ ther. The Baltic states are linked to the rest of navies and ground forces together in recent NATO only by a narrow strip of land running ‘Reassurance’ years. Gschossman said Germany and the KANO: In this file photo Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau speaks to the cam- between Belarus, a staunch ally of Russia, and “We could offer even more reassurance and Netherlands also plan to jointly develop an air era. A struggle in Nigeria’s Islamic extremist group Boko Haram is playing out in pub- Kaliningrad, the heavily militarized Russian send a political signal if we took a mixed task defiance system operated directly by their lic with a new leader named by the Islamic State group accusing longtime leader coastal enclave. The October test will validate a force with German, Dutch and US Patriot sys- armies to replace the Stinger guided missile, Abubakar Shekau of killing his own people and living in luxury while fighters’ babies new joint concept of operations for air and mis- tems - a purely defensive asset - and set it some- which must be phased out in the next decade. starve. — AP sile defense developed by Germany and the where in Poland or the Baltic states.” Dutch, Dutch Defense Ministry spokesman Jeroen de Netherlands over the past year, the first of its German and US Patriot missile systems were Vries said the two countries were looking into Boko Haram’s shadowy leader kind in Europe, Gschossmann, commander of rolled out separately in Turkey for two years from integrating the Dutch and German Patriot mis- ground-based units for Germany’s Air Force, told January 2013, where they helped protect fellow sile systems. “The task force can be deployed vows to fight on in new video Reuters in an interview. alliance member Ankara’s air space against the within NATO as capacity to protect alliance terri- More than 40 interceptors will be fired during possibility of missile attacks from war-torn Syria. tory,” he said. — Reuters KANO: Boko Haram’s shadowy leader had been deposed as Boko Haram’s chief. Abubakar Shekau has appeared in a new Barnawi’s appointment was contained in video vowing to fight on, shrugging off an a magazine issued by the Islamic State apparent split in the hardline jihadist group group, to which Boko Haram pledged alle- blamed for thousands of deaths since 2009. giance in March last year. Shekau dismissed “I... Abubakar Ash-Shakawy (Shekau), the Barnawi as an infidel who condoned living leader of Jama’atu Ahlissunnah Lidda’awati in an un-Islamic society without waging Wal Jihad, made it a duty for myself (to jihad. Shekau became leader after Nigerian fight) Nigeria and the whole world,” Shekau security forces killed the group’s founding said in the video released on Sunday, using chief Mohammed Yusuf in 2009. Omar the group’s name since it declared alle- Mahmood, a security analyst with US-based giance to the so-called Islamic State. Foreign Policy Research Institute who has Last week, Shekau said in an audio mes- spent the past five years researching Boko sage he was still head of the group despite Haram, said Shekau was removed because his purported replacement by Sheikh Abu of his highhandness and ruthlessness. Musab Al-Barnawi, a former Boko Haram “One thing that has remained constant, spokesman. “We have no desire to fight our however, is the focus on attacks against Muslim brethren,” Shekau, who last regional security forces, with Muslim civil- appeared in March, said in the 24-minute ian deaths still ignored. This aspect seems video. Shekau ridiculed suggestions that he to be a key concern for IS propagandists,” was dead, and looked more composed and Mahmood said. “By contrast, Abu Musab energetic than in previous appearances. al-Barnawi, the man announced as the new “I’m alive by the permission of Allah,” he leader, clearly stated in his al-Naba inter- said in his speech in Arabic and Hausa, view that attacks against Muslim civilians, adding that he would only die when his mosques and markets will not be a staple time came. of his leadership.” In the video he is wearing camouflage Sources close to Boko Haram said gear and holding a machine gun, standing Barnawi, aged in his early twenties, is none between two Islamist fighters in balaclavas other than Habib Yusuf, the eldest son of armed with rocket-propelled grenade group founder Yusuf. They said he was put launchers. He taunted President under Shekau’s care following the death of Muhammadu Buhari’s administration and his father, but the pair fell out over ideolog- condemned Western countries including ical and operational differences. Boko the United States, France, Germany and Haram has been blamed for some 20,000 “the tyrants of the United Nonsense (UN)”. deaths and displacing more than 2.6 mil- At the end of his speech-apparently filmed lion people since it launched a brutal insur- in Boko Haram’s stronghold in the Sambisa gency in Nigeria in 2009.