Hamas complicates Mideast peace bid Oct 8, 2009
Mitchell faced a similar dilemma during the Northern Ireland peace process, when there was opposition to the inclusion of the Irish Republican Army in the talks and demands that the group disarm before becoming party to the discussions. But as Mitchell and fellow peace envoy Richard N. Haass would later write, "It's hard to stop a war if you don't talk with those who are involved in it.". (MSNBC -- International)
IRA Dissidents Shoot Northern Ireland Man In Legs Oct 8, 2009
(AP) Police and politicians say Irish Republican Army dissidents have shot a Northern Ireland man in both legs in a so-called "punishment" attack, and police who responded were attacked with bricks, bottles and other makeshift weapons. One policeman was hospitalized with a head wound. (CBS News -- World)
* Britain offered millions to Libya to end IRA support Oct 6, 2009
Britain secretly offered to pay G14 million to Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi as part of a deal to end his countrys support for the Irish Republican Army (IRA), the Independent reported yesterday. The offer, worth G500 million (US$800 million) today, was made during negotiations in the 1970s that the government of British prime minister Harold Wilson held with Libya aimed at halting the supply of weapons to the IRA, documents seen by the newspaper show. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
UK offered to pay Kadhafi? Oct 5, 2009
Then prime minister Harold Wilson's government and Libya were in negotiations in the 1970s to halt the supply of weapons to the now-defunct Irish Republican Army, documents seen by The Independent show. The deal on the IRA was part of a package of compensation measures to appease the Libyan leader and help open up British trade with the north African state in the 1970s, the newspaper said. (iAfrica.com)
Ransom Note Found In Pebble Beach Art Heist Oct 1, 2009
An investigation into the art heist, which was estimated to be valued at $300 million, has included FBI probes into the Irish Republican Army, a Boston mob boss and a notorious art thief. If anyone has any information about the theft that may lead to the recovery of all the artwork, they can contact the Monterey County Sheriff's Department at 831-755-3765 or the Law Office of Vicki St. John at 831-250-7232. (KSBW 8, CA)
Retirement Readiness Quiz Sep 24, 2009
Irish Republican Army. IRA -- you mean my cousin Ira. (Click2Houston, TX)
372-page report Sep 23, 2009
The British claimed that tough interrogation of Irish Republican Army suspects thwarted dozens of terrorist attacks, Rejali said, but evidence later proved the intelligence was often useless. "When the data comes it's usually just incredibly embarrassing," Rejali said. (Harper's Magazine)
* Northern Ireland outraged over training for Libya Sep 20, 2009
Relatives of victims of bombings by the former Irish Republican Army (IRA) terrorist organization are demanding compensation from Libya on the grounds that the explosives used by the IRA in the 1980s and 1990s came from Libya. The Libyan government has rejected negotiations over the compensation demands, saying they were for the courts to decide. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Northern Ireland Court Bails Man Accused of Murdering British Soldiers Sep 19, 2009
The Real Irish Republican Army, a terrorist group who oppose Northern Irelands U.K. link, claimed responsibility for shooting dead the two soldiers outside a barracks in Antrim on March 7. The fatalities were the first for the military in the region since 1997 and marked the beginning of the worst upsurge in terrorist activity in Northern Ireland for a decade. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Elite British forces reportedly training Libyan troops Sep 13, 2009
Britain s thirst for Libya s oil and gas resources was again thrust into the spotlight earlier this month when it was reported that Brown had refused to lobby Khadafy for compensation for the Britons killed and injured by Libyan-supplied plastic explosives used by the Irish Republican Army in the 1980s and 90s. In a letter written last year to a survivor of one of the IRA bombings, then-junior Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell explained that Libya was now a vital partner. (Boston Globe)
UK training Libyan forces? Sep 12, 2009
The SAS sources were also angry at having to train soldiers from a country that provided weapons to the Irish Republican Army (IRA) paramilitaries, who targeted British troops during the so-called Troubles in Northern Ireland. "A small SAS training team have been doing it for the last six months as part of this cosy deal with the Libyans," one SAS source told the Telegraph. (iAfrica.com)
* Police foil bomb plot in Real IRA border stronghold Sep 10, 2009
The area is a stronghold for the Real Irish Republican Army (IRA). It was from this region that the Omagh bomb plot was hatched and executed 11 years ago. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Ulster diehards set bigger bombs to revive chaos Sep 10, 2009
He warned on Wednesday that Britain might have to redeploy troops in South Armagh, a longstanding Irish Republican Army power base, because police still cannot move safely in the area four years after the IRA disarmed and renounced violence. The police - aware that dissidents want to lure them into ambushes - spent a week searching for the bomb, which was concealed in bushes. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
From the archive: Coming closer to home Sep 9, 2009
DAILY it becomes clearer that the Irish Republican Army wants to push the British government into policies that the IRA could characterise as a desperate last throw: detention without trial and more frequent use of the crack army regiment, the SAS. Both army and police intelligence agree that the terrorists have had large new supplies from Libya. At this moment the IRA has access to enough Libyan Semtex explosive, arms and ammunition to make possible at least a year of violence at the present... (The Economist)
N Ireland foils attack Sep 9, 2009
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Colombia's rebels step up a brutal tactic Sep 8, 2009
That is in part thanks to training received from explosive experts of the former Irish Republican Army. Three Irishmen arrested in Colombia in 2001 were convicted of training the FARC but jumped bail and fled to Northern Ireland. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
Britain to back IRA victims' suit against Libya Sep 8, 2009
DUBLIN - Britain's surprise decision to support a lawsuit against Libya by Irish Republican Army victims raised hopes Monday that thousands who were maimed or lost loved ones in IRA bombings might receive compensation payments one day from the oil-rich nation. Libya admits it shipped hundreds of tons of weaponry to the IRA in the mid-1980s, most critically the plastic explosive Semtex at the heart of the outlawed group's biggest and deadliest bombs. (MSNBC -- International)
* Documents leave IRA victims furious Sep 8, 2009
Britain made no demands that Libya offer compensation for Britons killed by Libyan explosives supplied to the Irish Republican Army (IRA) for fear it could jeopardize ties with Tripoli, new documents show. The revelation prompted accusations that Britain had acted to protect energy deals, and added to questions about whether trade ties influenced last months decision to release Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Northern Ireland Terror Group to Disarm by February, U.K. Government Says Sep 8, 2009
The Irish Republican Army, the terrorist group which fought to unite Ireland, disarmed in 2005 as part of a peace process that sought to end the conflict in Northern Ireland. In 2007, a power-sharing was created in the region between , former allies of the IRA and British unionists. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Scotland denies Libya paid Lockerbie bomber doctors Sep 6, 2009
A spokesman for Brown's Downing Street office said in response: "As the prime minister makes absolutely clear in his letter to Mr McCue, trade considerations were not a factor in the government's decision that it would not be appropriate to enter into direct negotiations with Libya on this issue. "The prime minister is sympathetic to the case put forward by the families of victims of IRA (Irish Republican Army) atrocities and met with a group representing them in December to listen to their... (Channelnewsasia.com)
Profile: Muammar Gaddafi Aug 31, 2009
The diplomatic community's rejection of Libya centred on Col Gaddafi's backing for a number of militant groups, including the Irish Republican Army and the Palestine Liberation Organisation. GADDAFI TIMELINE. (BBC News -- Europe)
The last sibling: Sister’s special tie with her brother Aug 30, 2009
In 1994, over the objections of the British and members of her own staff, Kennedy Smith strongly urged the State Department to allow a US visit by Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army. The IRA later declared a cease-fire, and the visa is viewed as a factor in that decision. (Boston Globe)
Northern Ireland Remembers Ted Kennedy, the Peacemaker Aug 30, 2009
Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, talks to reporters upon his arrival in Boston on Sept. 24, 1994, for a two-week visit to the U.S., as Senator Ted Kennedy looks on Brian Snyder / Reuters. MORE.. (Time.com)
Powerful gather in homage, gratitude Aug 29, 2009
Our appreciation for his efforts knows no bounds, said Martin McGuinness, a Sinn Fein politician and former Irish Republican Army leader who now serves as deputy first minister of Northern Ireland. He made a mighty contribution to the work of peace in Ireland. (Boston Globe)
Irish roots, understanding grew with time Aug 28, 2009
It was Baroness Paisley, wife of the fundamentalist preacher the Rev. Ian Paisley, a staunch enemy of the Irish Republican Army who once denounced what he called the Kennedy stable of the Boston lobby of republicanism. Would you care to sit with me. (Boston Globe)
Across the Pond, Irish Praise Hero Abroad Aug 28, 2009
But he also condemned the violence of the Irish Republican Army - a stance not always popular with Irish Americans. Kennedy became a key American promoter of peace, urging Britain to negotiate with the IRA-linked party Sinn Fein as he also reached out to Protestant Unionists. (CBS News -- World)
Peace broker Aug 28, 2009
The senator is credited with getting an American visa for Gerry Adams -- leader of the pro-Irish nationalism Sinn Fein party accused of links to Irish Republican Army militants -- allowing him to attend a pivotal U.S. conference on Northern Ireland's future. Kennedy was awarded an honorary knighthood in March 2009, for his contribution to Northern Irish peace, which included a landmark speech in the province in 1998 urging mainly pro-British Protestants and mainly pro-Irish Catholics to work... (CNN -- World)
Kennedy dead at 77 Aug 27, 2009
Years later, on St. Patrick s Day in 1977, Senator Kennedy and other leaders would ask Irish-Americans to shun the violence of the Irish Republican Army. It was called the big four statement, after Senator Kennedy and Speaker Thomas P. O Neill Jr. of Massachusetts, and Governor Hugh L. Carey and Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York. (Boston Globe)
Lockerbie deal leaves no clean hands Aug 26, 2009
However, since Libya ratted on the Irish Republican Army comrades it used to arm and finance, the British government has had no compunctions in cozying up to Gaddafi, and the eagerness of US business to get into the country has been palpable. It was naive of Brown to expect the notoriously quixotic Gaddafi to abide by the "no public rejoicing" clause in whatever discussions led up to the release. (Asia Times Online)
GOP congressman blasts Holder probe: 'It's disgraceful... you wonder which side they're on'... Aug 26, 2009
King, but I still remember his many years defending and financing the terrorist Irish Republican Army. He is a hypocrite when it comes to terrorism. (The Drudge Report)
* Suspected Real IRA link goes on trial in Lithuania Aug 19, 2009
A man suspected of trying to buy arms in Lithuania for an Irish Republican Army (IRA) splinter group that has returned violently to the spotlight was scheduled to go on trial in the Baltic state yesterday. Michael Campbell, a 36-year-old Irish citizen who is a brother of a senior Real IRA commander, has been behind bars for 19 months since being snared in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
* Lockerbie release may benefit Qaddafi Aug 15, 2009
In the 1980s he was locked in confrontation with the West, accused of supplying weaponry to the Irish Republican Army, of bombing a Berlin discotheque packed with US servicemen and of supporting Palestinian terrorism. In 1986 the administration of former US president Ronald Reagan, which dubbed him Mad Dog Qaddafi, launched air strikes on Tripoli and Benghazi in an attempt to kill him. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Last Provisional IRA inmates freed Aug 6, 2009
Pearse McCauley and Kevin Walsh walked free from Ireland s Castlerea prison 10 1/2 years after they were convicted in the Irish Republican Army killing of an Irish policeman guarding a cash delivery van. McCauley and Walsh were the last imprisoned members of the Provisionals, the dominant faction of the IRA that killed nearly 1,800 people during a failed 1970-1997 campaign to force Northern Ireland out of the United Kingdom. (Boston Globe)
What kills terror? Politics & policing Aug 6, 2009
Examples of this kind include the Irish Republican Army, which entered into a peace agreement after several decades of struggle, or the Italian terrorist groups that were granted leniency and gave up arms. However, groups espousing social revolutions or global change of political power may not be willing to sit across the table to hammer out a bargain as there is hardly any meeting ground between the two sides. (India Times, India)
Peace dances in the Philippines Aug 1, 2009
The MILF is believed to view the former Irish Republican Army (IRA) man Kelly as a credible interlocutor. These visits were followed by delegations from Sudan and the European Union, who "all helped relay messages that otherwise might not have gotten through to each side and contributed greatly to restarting the talks process", said Gorman. (Asia Times Online)
This day in history Jul 20, 2009
In 1982, Irish Republican Army bombs exploded in two London parks, killing 11 soldiers. In 1988, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis received the Democratic presidential nomination at the party s convention in Atlanta. (Boston Globe)
In N. Ireland, Rioters Test Fragile Peace Jul 14, 2009
Most passed peacefully, but a handful attracted violent protests that Catholic leaders blamed on Irish Republican Army dissidents opposed to Northern Ireland's joint Catholic-Protestant government. Gerry Kelly, a minister in that 2-year-old coalition from the major Catholic-backed party Sinn Fein, said the dissidents were pursuing an "anti-peace process and sectarian agenda" that seeks to stoke tensions with the Protestant majority and torpedo power-sharing. (CBS News)
Far From United Jul 14, 2009
Sinn Feinthe political arm of the Irish Republican Army terroristswon a lions share of the governments attention. The moderate Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)which had long championed mainstream and majority nationalist opinionwas sidelined. (Townhall.com)
Annual Protestant parade goes on after riot in Belfast Jul 14, 2009
No group claimed responsibility but police and politicians blamed Irish Republican Army dissidents who are trying to keep alive the IRA s abandoned campaign to force Northern Ireland out of the United Kingdom. The dissidents also were blamed for planting a fake van bomb Friday night in the province s second-largest city, Londonderry, leading to the shutting down of a major bridge for more than 24 hours. (Boston Globe)
Belfast Catholics riot over Protestant parade Jul 14, 2009
Several rioters and at least nine officers were injured, none seriously, when Irish nationalists in Ardoyne, a militant Catholic enclave of north Belfast, tried to block a parade by the Orange Order, Northern Ireland s major Protestant brotherhood (Somerset Daily American, PA)
Several police hurt in Belfast riots Jul 14, 2009
Most passed peacefully, but a handful attracted violent protests that Catholic leaders blamed on Irish Republican Army dissidents opposed to Northern Ireland's joint Catholic-Protestant government. advertisement. (MSNBC -- International)
Protestant outlaws in Northern Ireland embrace disarmament Jun 28, 2009
Together, the two underground groups killed nearly 1,000 people in a self-declared war against the support base of the Irish Republican Army. Unable to pinpoint IRA members living within minority Catholic areas, they opted to terrorize the whole Catholic community with machine-gun and bomb attacks on Catholic social venues. (Boston Globe)
Paramilitary disarms Jun 28, 2009
Its enemy, the Irish Republican Army, disarmed four years ago. Protestant paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association, is also expected to disarm. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Loyalists give up weapons Jun 28, 2009
The Irish Republican Army (IRA), the main republican paramilitary group, finished destroying its arsenal four years ago, overseen by the commission. Loyalist groups began disarming last year but the process was suspended after two British soldiers and a policeman in Northern Ireland were shot dead by dissident republicans in March. (iAfrica.com)
N. Ireland's Ulster Volunteer Force says disarmed Jun 27, 2009
From 2001 to 2005, he oversaw the total disarmament of the Irish Republican Army, the major outlawed group on the Catholic side of the community. The UDA said its representatives recently delivered an unspecified quantity of weapons to de Chastelain. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
* Irish loyalist groups disarming: reports Jun 20, 2009
The conflict ended with the Good Friday peace accords in 1998 and the Irish Republican Army (IRA), a largely Catholic group that wanted the British-ruled province to unite with Ireland, decommissioned its weapons seven years later. Reports on Thursday suggested that the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) had now decommissioned a major weapons cache, and the Ulster Defence Association and Red Hand Commando had also made further disarmament moves. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Britain to conduct Iraq war inquiry Jun 16, 2009
Jonathan Powell, Blair's chief of staff, said last year that Chilcott played a role in secret talks with Irish Republican Army dissidents that helped seal the Northern Ireland peace settlement. Brown said that Martin Gilbert, best known as Winston Churchill's biographer; Kenyan-born House of Lords member Usha Prashar; Lawrence Freedman, an academic Blair appointed as a government historian; and Roderick Lyne, a former British ambassador to Russia, also will serve on the panel. (MSNBC -- International)
Queen Elizabeth II to honor LA police chief Bratton Jun 5, 2009
British police, Pierce said, leaned heavily on Bratton for help when rethinking policing in Northern Ireland as part of the peace agreement between the Irish Republican Army and the British government. Bratton will receive a very royal-looking medallion at a September ceremony at the British Embassy in Washington. (Boston Globe)
Original 'King Kong' roars into Portsmouth tonight Jun 3, 2009
HungerJune 7, 8, 9 (no Sunday matinee, June 7 (PSO Concert))(NR, 96 mins, UK, 2009)Renowned English video artist Steve McQueens feature film debut brings a visceral intensity to his retelling of the hunger strike instigated by Bobby Sands and several other detained Irish Republican Army members in the early 1980s. West Side StoryJune 10- Scope. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Ex-boyfriend pleads not guilty in murder of NYPD criminologist May 29, 2009
His father, a member of the Irish Republican Army, was caught attempting to blow up a British Army patrol in 1981, according to the Belfast Telegraph. Queens Chronicle 2009. (Queens Chronicle, NY)
CIAs close collaboration with Libya May 13, 2009
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Ruthless, dedicated Tamil leader faces final assault May 3, 2009
He lacked the political savvy of the African National Congress or the Irish Republican Army to transition to a legitimate political entity, he said. That, he concluded, reflects several things. (Globe and Mail)
Hamas: U.S. Diplomacy's Final Frontier May 2, 2009
The Irish Republican Army only publicly renounced armed struggle in 2005, a full seven years after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which brought its civilian wing into the political process. And even in the case of the PLO, the U.S. and Israel negotiated secretly with Arafat for years before he finally met our demands. (Time.com)
Disappearing bullets: Obama administration provokes a run on ammunition Apr 28, 2009
Additional cases involve a Pakistani national with an expired (1988) student visa; a Lebanese native and Hamas member with numerous felony convictions; and a supporter of the Irish Republican Army. (USA Today, Wednesday, November 28, 2001 Americans for Gun Safety)According to Americans for Gun Safety (December 2002), gun theft is most likely in states without laws requiring safe storage of firearms in the home and where there are large numbers of gun owners and relatively high crime rates. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
The role of Irish Women in the East... Apr 18, 2009
Patrick Pearse, leader of the IRB (Irish Republican Brotherhood, the forerunner to the Irish Republican Army), seemed to offer women the opportunity they wanted. When he read his Proclamation announcing the formation of the Irish Republic, he clearly gave full equality to all Irish women. (Suite101.com)
Here is the latest New Jersey news from The Associated Press Apr 18, 2009
McAllister served time in prison for activities related to an Irish Republican Army splinter group. NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP). (NJ.com -- News)
* Increasingly impotent Apr 16, 2009
Savage force was indeed used at that very time, though not against the Irish Republican Army. Irish nationalists sometimes like to claim that those rebellions were anti-colonial, setting a pattern for further liberation movements, which is not so. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Don't talk of a war on terror Apr 13, 2009
If it were, it would have involved the Basque separatists in Spain, the Hindu/Marxist Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, the Maoist rebels in eastern India, Israeli ultranationalists, the Kurdish PKK, remnants of the Irish Republican Army and the Sikh separatist movements, and so on. Rather, the war on terror, as conceived of by the Bush administration, was targeted at a particular brand of terrorism that employed exclusively by Islamic entities. (Albany Times Union)
IRA dissidents threaten to kill Sinn Fein official Apr 13, 2009
DUBLIN - Irish Republican Army dissidents yesterday threatened to kill a top Sinn Fein politician, Martin McGuinness, and resume attacks in England as part of their efforts to wreck the IRA cease-fire and Northern Ireland power-sharing. A statement from the outlawed Real IRA distributed to Irish media branded McGuinness a traitor because he holds the top Irish Catholic post in Northern Ireland's government, which shares power with British Protestants. (Boston Globe)
//British Official Says U.S.OK With Overture to Hezbollah//(Damascus) Apr 5, 2009
Britain likens the attempt to engage Hezbollah, launched quietly this year, to London's outreach to political leaders of the Irish Republican Army earlier -- a move that helped quell the Northern Ireland conflict. "We have a different approach on this issue at the moment with the United States," he said. (OregonLive, OR -- News)
Artful, but brutal film tells story of prison Apr 4, 2009
His latest, "Hunger" is a (literally) gut-wrenching account of the 1981 Irish Republican Army hunger strike in the Maze prison in Northern Ireland, led by a young man named Bobby Sands (played in the film by Michael Fassbender). But the film avoids hagiography completely. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
N. Irish police arrest teen over soldiers' slaying Apr 3, 2009
Members and supporters of Irish Republican Army dissidents have mounted more than a dozen car hijackings and bomb hoaxes this week across Northern Ireland, and also tossed Molotov cocktails at a Protestant community hall in Belfast, in hopes of raising communal tensions to breaking point. advertisement. (MSNBC -- International)
Irish teen arrested over troops' deaths Apr 2, 2009
Members and supporters of Irish Republican Army dissidents have mounted more than a dozen car hijackings and bomb hoaxes this week across Northern Ireland, and also tossed Molotov cocktails at a Protestant community hall in Belfast, in hopes of raising communal tensions to breaking point. So far, leaders of both the British Protestant and Irish Catholic sides of the community have united against the dissidents and no other paramilitary group has joined the violence. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Northern Ireland Police Arrest Man in Connection With Soldiers' Murders Apr 2, 2009
The Real Irish Republican Army, a group opposed to Northern Irelands peace process and the provinces union with the U.K., said it carried out the attack. To contact the reporter on this story: in Belfast at. (Bloomberg -- UK)
From the sublime to the obscene to the obsessed Apr 2, 2009
By that time, the trail, which eventually led to Ireland, had gone cold - or at least Dreyfus's best sources, who were speculating the art theft was some scheme concocted by Boston's Irish mafia and the Irish Republican Army, had cold feet and would no longer appear on camera. The film also features the voices of Blythe Danner and Campbell Scott reading the late-19th-century letters between Gardner herself and her European agent, the art historian Bernard Berenson. (Globe and Mail)
