BELFAST: Britain and the US, outraged by an IRA offer to shoot a group of suspected murderers, yesterday demanded that the guerillas disband and take the gun out of Northern Irish politics.

Leaders in Ireland also expressed outrage and disbelief at the IRA's unprecedented public offer to kill the four men - including two of its own expelled members - linked to a Belfast slaying.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the offer defied description while US special envoy to the British province Mitchell Reiss added: "It's time for the IRA to go out of business."

The condemnation came as police said they had arrested a man over the crime which has unleashed a wave of fury against both the IRA and its political ally in the republican movement, Sinn Fein.
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=106365&Sn=WORL&IssueID=27355




[SIZE=3]Bush: I'll never deal with Adams again[/SIZE]

http://www.sermonaudio.com/newsimages/19037.jpg[SIZE=1]Gerry Adams and President Bush in March 2001[/SIZE]

President Bush personally ordered that Gerry Adams be frozen out of official engagements during his visit to America, furious that the Sinn Fein leader had betrayed his efforts to help to re-start the Northern Ireland peace process.

Mr Bush now views Mr Adams in the same unfavourable light as he did Yasser Arafat, the late Palestinian leader, a senior presidential adviser said last night. "At the White House, Adams is now regarded with the same sort of disdain as Arafat," the adviser told The Telegraph. "The President no longer considers Mr Adams a reliable partner for peace. He doesn't want to meet him."

Mr Bush was enraged to learn that at the same time as he was pressing Mr Adams late last year to relaunch the power-sharing deal, Sinn Fein's armed wing, the IRA, was planning the £26 million Northern Bank raid in Belfast. He had telephoned both Mr Adams and Ian Paisley, the leader of the Democratic Unionists, in an attempt to persuade Northern Ireland's two biggest parties to resume the stalled peace negotiations.

Mr Bush's displeasure has forced Mr Adams to abandon plans to raise money while in America. The United States government made it clear that it would not grant him a visa that permits fund-raising, this newspaper has learnt. Sinn Fein had claimed that Mr Adams had chosen not to raise money "to avoid it being made into a contentious issue''. In reality, he was told not even to bother applying for the appropriate paperwork for the week-long visit, which began in Ohio yesterday. American officials are also demanding major concessions from Sinn Fein, most significantly that the IRA be disbanded.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/13/wadams13.xml

The Sinn fein IRA is the only political party in Europe that maintains its own Private Army. :confused:

Any new slants on Ted Kennedy's political decision regarding a sudden disapproval of IRA fund-raising in the USA?.

[QUOTE=Dasyurus Maculatus]The Sinn fein IRA is the only political party in Europe that maintains its own Private Army. :confused:

Any new slants on Ted Kennedy's political decision regarding a sudden disapproval of IRA fund-raising in the USA?.[/QUOTE]

Itz a shame itz took the American government over 30 years and over 4,000 dead to understand that the IRA/Sinn Fein are nothing more than a bunch of murdering bastards.

[QUOTE=White Dragon]Itz a shame itz took the American government over 30 years and over 4,000 dead to understand that the IRA/Sinn Fein are nothing more than a bunch of murdering bastards.[/QUOTE]

The 'Boston Irish' who are hardcore IRA fund raisers had to wait until they got their own dose of terror (on Sept 11 2001) before some of them wised up.

US friends who were supportive of the IRA are surprisingly ignorant of the yearly Christmas Bombing campaign on the UK mainland that only recently has been put on temporary hold.

[QUOTE=Dasyurus Maculatus]The 'Boston Irish' who are hardcore IRA fund raisers had to wait until they got their own dose of terror (on Sept 11 2001) before [I]some of them [/wised up

So at least bin laden (or mossad) and his fuck up religion have been of some use then?

The IRA (and UDA, I think) are a mafia gang. The media are pushing this heavily now, on both radio and TV; that's when you know things have changed. Before, the BBC and Westminster wouldn't dare to tread on Republican toes.

The paramilitaries now have nothing to do with 'protecting the community', as the northern Irish will tell you. How many more apolitical murders, bank raids, protection rackets and immigrants smuggled into Ulster before both sides realise that - uh-oh - maybe the 'peace' isn't so different from the 'Troubles'.

I remember when the IRA phoned in a semtex bomb threat at a mall near me. It's not the kind of thing that endears you to them - killing civilians. On the other hand, I've got to admire their mortar attack on the MI5 building.