IRA decommissioning statement [Official Full Text]

Guardian ^ | October 23, 2001 | Signed: P O'Neill. [A nom de plume used by the IRA to authenticate its statements]

[Norn Iron]

Why do you appear to condone terrorism after 9/11?

There is nothing very funny about 'crucifixion' or 'mixed grill'. Did the Mafia descend to this level of depravity?

[Norn Iron]

Kiss my royal Irish ass!!

I presume Adams did NOT speak these words to Egan and McGuinness would have had the wit not to say the same to Haass!!

[Norn Iron]

Why would Blair have to make any changes to the decisions he has already taken on policing and which have been accepted by Ahern and all the parties except Sinn Fein/IRA?

SF/IRA have been prevaricating for over 3 years on decommissioning. They've now started within a few weeks of the debacle in Colombia and 9/11. The conclusions to be drawn are fairly simple ones. No amount of blarney can disguise the bleeding obvious!!

[Norn Iron]

, you'll find that the meaning of TUAS changed over the course of 15 years.

It was still in place in February this year when Brian Keenan referred to the 'violence and negotiation' strategy. In other words, Tactical Use of Armed Struggle. Keenan was reported as the Chief of Staff before McGuinness replaced him recently.

[Norn Iron]

It's unlikely Blair would be so daft as to follow such a fantasy!!

Dead loyalists would be followed by dead Catholics and before you know the whole place would go up in flames.

[tonycavanagh]

re : It makes me sick the way the discussion on FR has turned in the past month. Your comments regarding America wanting her own empire are unfounded, you've read them from idiotic hotheads who want us to drop nukes and destroy both the Middle East and Islam. What the hell country do these people think we live in?.

I was funning with the guy, and with many others here.

But you have to admit it is interesting the way people react under pressure.

Take Gun Control, everyone on this site is against it, take weapons control with regards to other counties many on this site support it.

Take Sovereignty concerning America, everyone on this site is suspicious of the UN, they feel that the UN is using both Overt and Covert methods to take over the United States.

Take Sovereignty concerning foreign countries many here feel that where American security is concerned, America has the right to use methods both overt and covert to take over or manipulate foreign governments.

To further complicate matters many operations designated security have an a economic aspect to them

I get the feeling when I go on this site, that as a non American I have a better understanding and more knowledge of American foreign policy than a lot of Americans.

America was hit and hit badly, how you act when you are scared is a true mark of who and what you are.

How America will react and how Americans are reacting is a true mark of who and what America is.

Cheers Tony