[Colosis]

Decommissioning looks slightly promising - lets hope it happens.

[Norn Iron]

Let's hope so but we need decommissioning and disbandment by all terrorist groups.

It's quite likely that only Sinn Fein/IRA will decommission and they will only do a token amount to repair the PR damage done by the Colombian fiasco and to prevent themselves being returned to the US Register of Terrorist Organisations.

I doubt if Blair and Ahern will act together to see that it is done despite Blair's gung ho approach to dealing with those who subjected the USA to Black Tuesday.

[Norn Iron]

The Observer and the Guardian are mouthpieces for the UK government and for Irish nationalism so we should perhaps take the story with a pinch of salt.

Their information could have come from London or Dublin or could have been submitted jointly.