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Conlon: Muslims are Irish of today

Henry McDonald
Sunday February 13, 2005
The Observer

Gerry Conlon - one of the Guildford Four - has compared the plight of British Muslims under suspicion since 9/11 to the way the Irish were treated during the IRA bombing campaigns of the mid-Seventies.

Conlon, who along with the ten other victims of one of Britain's worst miscarriages of justice received a public apology from Tony Blair last week, also said he would do all he could to help the freed Guantanamo Bay detainees.

'The atmosphere is just like 1974 and 1975 when we were wrongly sent to prison. The only difference is that the colour and the religion has changed,' he said.

He was speaking at the SDLP annual conference, which he used to thank the party for its support for the Conlon and Maguire families over the past 31 years.

Conlon revealed that he told his solicitor Gareth Peirce, who is also a lawyer for two of the recently freed Guantanamo detainees, that it would be hard for the men to re-integrate into society.

'The Guantanamo detainees will have to struggle against suspicion and hostility the way we did,' he said.

On Blair's apology last week, Conlon said: 'By making that TV appearance, and by giving us the letter, he has helped wipe away the stigma.'

He revealed that during their private talk with Blair in his rooms at the House of Commons, the Prime Minister was taken aback by what Patrick and Vincent Maguire told him.

'Patrick told Tony Blair that before his arrest he wanted to join the Royal Marines and, instead of being wrongly in prison, he would have been fighting for Britain in the Falklands. Vincent told him that he wanted to be a police officer in the Met, so he could have been patrolling London's streets,' Conlon said.

He said that the apology was important because even after their convictions were quashed in 1989 'we were still seen as guilty in the eyes of the establishment'.

Closure, Conlon said, would only come about for the Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven once they received the medical and counselling help promised by Blair during their meeting.

He repeated his calls for public apologies to be issued to all victims of miscarriages of justice since their release in 1989, including the Birmingham Six.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/nort...1411969,00.html

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