IRA offers to kill as a peace gesture

[Cowperson]

Leaders across Britain and Ireland expressed outrage and disbelief Wednesday at an IRA public offer to kill four men – including two of its own expelled members – linked to a Belfast killing.

The outlawed Irish Republican Army, which is supposed to be observing a 1997 ceasefire in support of Northern Ireland's peace process, has faced weeks of embarrassment over its members' role in killing a Roman Catholic civilian, intimidating witnesses and destroying evidence.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto.../International/

Cowperson

[Looger]

the IRA existed for so long as an outlaw organization that they cannot go back.

good friends of my parents moved here from northern ireland because a member of the IRA told them, 'your daughter is going to be working for us on the streets'. they fled. that was in the 70s, a wild time for international terror, in many ways more crazy then now - interpol etc. didn't have the resources / computers it does now, lots of mercs in africa and south america, lots of people hiding out.

look at that recent burglary, december 22nd in belfast i believe, and how some of its aftershocks are rippling through the old resistance movement:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...488384,00.html

more than likely that some of the bank robbers were ex-IRA or ex-Ullster unionists or something, i mean you live cloak-and-dagger for your adult life and then are told to go home and work at the bakery?