"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.
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03/09/2005 6:05:20 AM PST by
Rogers324
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Rogers324 aka Syria_OUT, Patriot623, West of the Hudson, Eagle26, Jerseyboy49, Jersey_Republican, GenFranks08, cph90, Murph22, A_Lurker_No_More, Murphy63, F____y__12, CocoHar, Crusader44, KYGOP44, NJ_GOP_44, Ireland201, Archer812, BoysFromWexford812, Wexford, DUsoldier, WexfordBH, crusader812, sweetlife812, Fushuckit, RolDev123, PhantomPoster, COroge08, CJR812, wex606, et al, zotted again.
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5h1t!!! I missed it!!! Why do they always troll when I'm working????
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ZOT ZOT ZOT ZOT. Not worthy of a thermonuke
To: Rogers324
The IRA should be systematically disbanded and destroyed. Violent resistance should be crushed.
To: Rogers324
The Irish problem can no longer be addressed with shooting. It's time these two Christian groups to settle this matter peaceably. I think it's obvious that the British must leave the island of Ireland but I'm an American and I have no standing in this question. The people who are there must settle it and stop killing each other.
226 posted on
03/12/2005 4:47:46 AM PST by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopeckne is walking around free)
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ZOT!
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