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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1742490/posts

Republicans Deny Plot To Murder Adams
The UK Guardian ^ | November 19, 2006 | Henry McDonald

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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