Upcoming Events

International | Miscellaneous

no events match your query!

New Events

International

no events posted in last week

Blog Feeds

Anti-Empire

Anti-Empire

offsite link North Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link Trump Assembles a War Cabinet Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link Slavgrinder Ramps Up Into Overdrive Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link ?Existential? Culling to Continue on Com... Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:28 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link US to Deploy Military Contractors to Ukr... Sun Nov 10, 2024 02:37 | Field Empty

Anti-Empire >>

Human Rights in Ireland
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link ?Why Can?t We Talk About This?? Thu May 15, 2025 13:00 | Richard Eldred
Laurie is joined by Canadian filmmaker Dean Rainey to discuss his new documentary, Why Can?t We Talk About This?, about the plight of a Canadian man who suffered a debilitating vaccine injury.
The post ?Why Can?t We Talk About This?? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?Trans Toddlers? Allowed Gender Treatment on NHS Thu May 15, 2025 11:05 | Will Jones
The NHS is treating toddlers and nursery-age children who believe they are transgender after watering down its own guidance and removing the under-seven age limit.
The post ‘Trans Toddlers’ Allowed Gender Treatment on NHS appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Daily Mail Misses the Real Story About Long-Term Stable Antarctica Ice in Dumb Quip About Climate ?D... Thu May 15, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
A silly recent headline in the Daily Mail about "climate deniers" erupting in "mass celebration" missed the real story, says Chris Morrison: a new science paper showing Antarctica ice has been stable since 1960.
The post Daily Mail Misses the Real Story About Long-Term Stable Antarctica Ice in Dumb Quip About Climate ‘Deniers’ appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Ten Things George Soros is Funding in the UK Thu May 15, 2025 07:00 | Charlotte Gill
What's Left-wing US billionaire George Soros funding in the UK? This week a US analyst released a spreadsheet of grants from Soros's Open Society Foundations spelling it all out.?Charlotte Gill dives in.
The post Ten Things George Soros is Funding in the UK appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Thu May 15, 2025 00:56 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

Voltaire Network >>

An Irishman Abroad

category international | miscellaneous | other press author Saturday April 18, 2009 05:21author by ramor - img Report this post to the editors

Who was the Irish Mercenary Killed in Bolivia?

Michael Dywer killed in Bolivia alongside some Croat War veterans

Bolivian police Thursday foiled a plot to assassinate President Evo Morales, the country's vice president Garcia Linera said, calling the the suspects "a dangerous gang of Irish and Croatian mercenaries, as well as Bolivians."

When police moved in to arrest the five suspects at a hotel in the eastern Bolivian city of Santa Cruz, they became embroiled in a 30-minute gun battle, Morales said. Three of the gunmen were killed, including the irish national Michael Dwyer, and two were arrested. Officials recovered heavy armaments at a nearby warehouse that authorities said belonged to the gunmen.

***

The Inka Cola blog reports that the Irishman was a busy social networker, with profiles on both Facebook and Bebo. On Facebook he was a 'friend' of Croatian Eduardo Rozsa Flores, apparently a well-known war veteran and fascist.

On his Bebo page( which has since been taken down ) Inka Cola noted the following details -
- Michael loves guns and fancies himself as a sniper
- Has Bruce Willis's "The Jackal" as the answer to his "What kind of Assassin are You?" profile box
- Thinks he's hard (?)
- Member of an Irish battlefield simulation club

All very bizarre.
Anybody know anything else about this bloke?

Related Link: http://incakolanews.blogspot.com/2009/04/is-this-irish-would-be-assassin-of-evo.html
author by digdeeperpublication date Sat Apr 18, 2009 16:04author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The Examiner quotes Garda sources as saying that Dwyer "had no criminal history and was not known to gardaí". However, the report does hint that Dwyer might have a British Army connection, but does not provide more than an un-named source- "One source suggested he had military training at a young age, possibly in the British army"

Deadly end to alleged Bolivian plot
By Stephen Rogers and Juno McEnroe
http://www.examiner.ie/ireland/idsngbqlkf/

author by dunkpublication date Sat Apr 18, 2009 16:15author address author phone Report this post to the editors

coverage of this story with much commentry and discussion already ongoing
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/90029
http://www.politics.ie/foreign-affairs/61194-irish-invo...74606

author by MHpublication date Sun Apr 19, 2009 19:33author address author phone Report this post to the editors

According to the front page of The Sunday Times this individual was employed with a Galway based security firm and it was they who sent him to Bolivia for some training . According to previous entrys in his Bebo he had been given use of or somehow acquired a new BMW motorcar since his arrival in Bolivia . The name of this security form which allegedly sent him to Bolivia however remains somewhat elusive .

 
© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy