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TOPIC: Release on eve of Clinton visit was no coincidence (Independent.ie 11/13/09)

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Date: Nov 13, 2009

Release on eve of Clinton visit was no coincidence (Independent.ie 11/13/09)	Permalink

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/release-on-eve-of-clinton-visit-was-no-coincidence-1941041.html IT was no coincidence that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in the Philippines only hours after Irish priest Fr Michael Sinnott was released by his kidnappers. Reliable sources have confirmed that the US State Department was deeply involved in the complex negotiations to secure Fr Sinnott's freedom after 32 days held hostage. Last week, the Irish Embassy in Washington briefed Ms Clinton, who agreed to raise Fr Sinnott's plight on her visit to the Philippines. The freeing of Fr Sinnott came at the end of an epic diplomatic mission mounted by the Department of Foreign Affairs involving the governments of the Philippines, Britain, the United States and Malaysia. The beheading earlier this week of a school principal kidnapped by extremist groups had heightened fears for Fr Sinnott. News of the murder of the hostage broke just when Ambassador Dick O'Brien in Manila believed that Fr Sinnott's release had been successfully negotiated with a splinter group of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). __________________ Nobody puts THIS baby in the corner!

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