Posted on 11/22/2006 12:30:56 AM PST by mcg2000
Two Republican terror groups opposed to the Good Friday Agreement have denied they are involved in any plot to kill Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness. The Irish National Liberation Army and the Continuity IRA said this weekend there are no plans to assassinate Sinn Fein leaders. They also condemned any threats to the two Sinn Fein MPs even though they were political enemies.
The INLA and its political wing, the Irish Republican Socialist Party, described claims by Adams that he and Martin McGuinness and Gerry Kelly were under threat as 'nonsense'.
An INLA spokesman told The Observer that the allegation was 'designed to stifle debate about policing inside Sinn Fein'.
Last Monday the Sinn Fein leadership held a press conference during which Adams claimed they had been warned to step up their personal security due to threats from an alliance of anti-Good Friday Agreement republicans.
This was linked, it was later alleged, to a series of meetings between INLA and other dissident republicans across Northern Ireland to map out a strategy aimed at opposing the St Andrews Agreement. Dissident republicans and a number of activists inside Sinn Fein have been fiercely critical of that part of the St Andrews deal which requires the party to sign an oath pledging support for the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
'The INLA would be totally opposed to targeting any republican. As we have learnt bitterly from the past there is nothing worse in republican eyes than Irishmen killing Irishmen,' the INLA spokesman said.
The terror group has emerged from a series of internal feuds dating back to its split with the Official IRA 31 years ago.
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Ping
We are much too polite to OFFEND anyone
Damn for a moment there I thought they were accusing US of trying to take out a politician.
That's OK - the DemocRATs will eventually blame Bush and the US Republicans for it anyway.
Michelle Malkin, Ann Colter, Dr. Laura. ;)
Well I was wondering, at first, who the GOP was trying to murder (and maybe a little pleased at them developing a spine and some Hillaryesque ruthlessness...).
In any case, what's so bad about a dead Gerry Adams?
This group or ours needs a name change.
I'd say let them go right ahead and shoot themselves in the foot!
If they decapitate the Sinn Fein/IRA leadership, then they decapitate the strategy to overthrow the democratic institutions north and south of the border. If they then go back to the bomb and the bullet - fine, the British and Irish police and armies will soon wipe them out!
And another note: why risk the lives of police officers protecting a bunch of terrorists??
Are they calling Adams and McGuinness IINOs?
If it were that simple, wouldn't they have done it forty years ago?
Thatcher had it nearly done by the early 90s - but the rest of her government lost their bottle!
And the the Irish Army did so in the Irish Civil War!
It's finishing the job that's always the hard part.
Yet there's still some recognizable remnant of the IRA. Why is that?
Irish In Name Only? I'm not sure what you mean by it, but I consider all Hibernofascist terrorist scum to be IINOs!! They are a disgrace to my country!
Because WT Cosgrave made the mistake of accepting a ceasefire.
I'm making a play on how anyone who disagrees with certain FReepers is castigated as a "RINO."
It's still a better option than negotiating with them.
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