from: William Hughes

Raymond McCord, Sr. is one determined Ulsterman! On Oct. 22, 2009, he got a chance, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C., to tell a House Subcommittee his story about his long struggle to bring the killers of his son, Raymond McCord, Jr., to justice. Mr. McCord claims his boy, age 22, was viciously murdered by individuals, in 1997, in North Belfast, who were members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). They were also government agents and “police informers,” according to Mr. McCord. As a result, he further alleges that the case “is not about police corruption. It is about police and state collusion with murder.” The hearing was held by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight, in the Rayburn Office Building. It was chaired by Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-MA). I chatted with Mr. McCord after he finished his testimony, along with Father Sean McManus, one of Mr. McCord’s strongest supporters in the U.S. He’s the President of the Irish National Caucus, a D.C.-based lobbying group. See for background: http://www.hcfa.house.gov/hearing_notice.asp?id=1122 and http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0122/mccordr.html and
http://www.irishecho.com/newspaper/story.cfm?id=19305