hand planes
hammered by the irish how the pitstop ploughshares disabled a u.s. war plane with irelands blessing
p on a damp night in february 2003 as the united states prepared to invade iraq five catholic worker activists scrambled across runways and broke into a hangar at shannon airport . swinging hammers and a pickaxe they did more than 2.5 million damage to a us navy transport plane . the five were hit with the full weight of the law and were quickly condemned by the media and much of the antiwar movement . but three and a half years later a dublin jury decided they were innocent of any crime . p harry browne is a journalism lecturer at the dublin institute of technology .