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The Story

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, threeandahalf years later, a Dublin jury decided they were innocent of any crime.Harry Browne is a journalism lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology.

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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, threeandahalf years later, a Dublin jury decided they were innocent of any crime.Harry Browne is a journalism lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology.