Tír Chonaill,

of course I knew it was a typo, but since you started the paragraph with the words "If memory serves me right" I just couldn't resist. Sorry about that.

I knew who Nairac was. One does not read more than two dozen books about Northern Ireland without meeting this name and the story behind it more than once. (Just BTW, the last book of those I did read was Before the dawn and I did like it.)

I'm truly curious by now what post by Teribus is in your memories and how the actual content of that post relates to your reported recollections. That's a kind of professional curiosity for I'm doing among other things research on memory illusions. When I first mentioned the search function it was to help whoever wanted to refind the remembered post. Meanwhile I got more curious and have done a search. Teribus has never used the word "squeal*" in any of his posts before this was brought up. In a second search I have looked for all posts by Teribus with the word 'interrogation' in them. Quite a few. But none of them had any more than a very superficial resemblance in my eyes to what was claimed.

My best guess at this moment is that you are a victim of what is called 'source confusion', namely that you attribute something that was said about Teribus to him having said that. But I may well be wrong and if I am I'd like to know.

Whatever you may think about Teribus' political opinions (mine are very different from his, in general, and also about Northern Ireland), he has a right to be attacked for what he has actually posted. With so many of you remembering that content it should be easy to put up.

Just imagine of being called 'child molester' by someone. And then that person says I seem to recollect having heard it from yourself or was it about you but I can't be bothered to check and perhaps it only was something similar...

Wolfgang