[Rogers324]

"The Sinn Fein/IRA commitment to terror and criminality is total." Bar fight McCartney, a 33-year-old forklift truck driver, was beaten and stabbed to death in a bar fight at the end of January. His family, who hail from a working class Catholic district considered an IRA heartland, have mounted a vociferous campaign for the killers to be brought to justice, accusing the IRA of intimidating witnesses and cleaning the bar of evidence. The United States has already signaled its displeasure with the political stagnation in the province by failing to invite the leaders of Sinn Fein and the other Northern Ireland political parties to the White House for St. Patrick's Day celebrations this month. In a statement released on Tuesday, the IRA said it had held a five-and-a-half hour meeting with the dead man's sisters and fiancee, during which it "stated in clear terms that the IRA was prepared to shoot the people directly involved." The family rejected the offer, saying they wanted the killers brought to court. The IRA did not spell out whether it intended to kill or wound the suspects, but Northern Ireland's police chief Hugh Orde said he had no doubt the offer was to assassinate them. "We are not in the business of applauding or being impressed by illegal organizations' statements," he told the BBC. "We have to remember that it was IRA members who killed Mr. McCartney, it was IRA members who destroyed the evidence and it was IRA members who threatened and intimidated the witnesses.

[Cornpone]

ping...God be with you

[Rogers324]

Im dissapointed....Anyone who knows the real history of what has gone on in Ireland for the past century, knows which side to be on.

[Incorrigible]

Irish Bump.

The time is nigh.

[Incorrigible]

Irish Bump.

The time is nigh.

[TBarnett34]

Im dissapointed....Anyone who knows the real history of what has gone on in Ireland for the past century, knows which side to be on.

I got the feeling we might need a horse nose for this one.

[GarySpFc]

Ping!

[nuconvert]

pong

[MeekOneGOP]

[PilloryHillary]

So, you are on the side of murderers and terrorists?

YOU ARE A TROLL !!

[Corin Stormhands]

DRAT! I thought it said "IRS."

[Conspiracy Guy]

[Slings and Arrows]

[Knitting A Conundrum]

If it were always an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, the whole world would be groping around eyeless and toothless - Zorba the Greek

[Brian Allen]

<< .... the "guerrilla group" [Drug and gun running, bank-robbing, standover and shakedown mob of psychopathic, death-cultist, lying, looting, thieving, gutlessly-mass-murdering gangster-bastards] "was blamed for" [Perpetrated] a ... Fifty Million Dollar "bank raid" [Armed robbery] in central Belfast. >>

CNN -- its every employee but a mindless moron forming and but a bit part of a dangerously subversive, un-and-anti-American whole -- and the deadly enemy of freedom and liberty in general -- and long the champion and respectible facade of Saddam Hussayne and -- from Singapore to Peking, Damascus to Vientienne -- of every other, among its scores of customer states -- of the world's very worst despots and tyrannies -- cannot to this day -- and Eason Jordan et al notwithstanding -- call a spade a spade -- or the self-styled "ira" a mass-murdering psychopathological Irish Mob!

CNN?

What an obscene bunch of moraly and intellectually insolvent traitors -- every one of them but the supercilliously sanctimonious simpering servant of evil's every manifestation!

Bastards!

[Ex-Dem]

Terrorists are terrorists. It doesn't matter if they're Christian or Muslim, their victims are just as dead. Trying to pretend otherwise paints you as a terrorist sympathizer. I wonder if you tried to justify what Tim McVeigh did...

The Brits have been pretty supportive of us in the WOT, more so than any other country (the Aussies are pretty high up there too), and I find it a bit hypocritical and kind of a slap in the face to them to say that AQ and their kind are terrorists, but IRA isn't.

[Darkwolf377]

The IRA is a TERRORIST organization.

Al Qaeda has a "political wing"--Hezbollah has a "political wing"--the PLfrickinO has a "political wing".

USA should not deal with terrorist organizations.

It's that simple.

Signed, an American (whose grandparents all came over from Ireland,NOT an Irish-American) ;)

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Man, are we just gonne keep saying this line over and over to bad regimes (Iran/Syria/IRA) or are we gonna back up our words/threats?

[swordfish71]

uh, welcome to FR. (I think)

[Jim Noble]

The IRA died the day their brothers-in-arms murdered 343 NYC firefighters.

FDNY members, pound for pound, gave the IRA more financial and emotional support than anyone else on the planet.

After 9-11-01, Gerry Adams had a choice to make. He made the wrong one.

Now, he's screwed.

Too bad, so sad.

[D-Generation X]

IRA must disband now and that is right. They support and work with Hamas and other ISLAMIC terrorist organizations. Support for the IRA is support for Hamas!