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Funny how they rob banks and kill fellow Irish Catholics in brutal ways and then act as if they're peaceful. They have made previous statements and refused to provide evidence of destruction of their weapons as well. Their hard-core elements are so involved in global terror that even if any progress was made, those same elements would just function in other groups.
"The shift followed growing revulsion among its Catholic supporters, both here and in the United States, at the I.R.A.'s involvement in organized crime and, since Sept. 11, at global terrorism.
The statement did not say the I.R.A. was disbanding and did not refer specifically to the issue of crime by I.R.A. members, held responsible for a huge bank heist last December and a brutal barroom murder and cover-up in January.
Some skeptics, moreover, recalled previous I.R.A. statements that had failed to bring peace.
Last December, the Democratic Unionists, led by the firebrand preacher Ian Paisley, scuttled an effort to restore Northern Ireland's government by demanding photographic evidence that the arms had been destroyed, which the I.R.A. refused."
-Rudey
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