How the USA made the IRA decommission it's guns.

[OUTSIDER]

IRA starts decommissioning 'to save peace process'


The IRA has announced it has begun decommissioning its weapons "to save the
peace process".

The leadership confirmed it would be following the procedure to put guns and
explosives beyond use.

A statement said the move, agreed earlier this year with General John de Chastelain,
was a bid to save the peace process.

It added: "Our motivation is clear. This unprecedented move is to save the peace
process and to persuade others of our genuine intentions."

The move came 24 hours after Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams said he had asked
the IRA to disarm and prevent the collapse of the Good Friday Agreement.

The Provisionals had been under enormous pressure from London, Dublin and
Washington to act. The IRA insisted there was a responsibility on everyone
committed to do their best to avoid a breakdown.

Last August, following the resignation of David Trimble as First Minister at the
Northern Ireland Assembly, the Provisionals agreed a method of putting their
weaponry beyond use. The agreement was withdrawn when Unionists demanded
immediate decommissioning.

The I RA has given no details of how many of their guns had been decommissioned
but General de Chastelain is likely to have recorded a full inventory.

Two of their secret dumps had been examined three times by government-appointed
arms inspectors Cyril Ramaphosa and Martti Ahtisaari.

Their statement said: "No one should doubt the difficulties these initiatives cause for
us, our volunteers and our support base. The political process is now on the point of
collapse. Such a collapse would certainly, and eventually, put the overall peace
process in jeopardy."

The above is a breaking story here in the UK and a joy to those of us who wish to see peace in Ireland, what it doesn't mention though is the fact that it's the USA that has really made the IRA get rid of their gun's.

The US was going to make the Sinn Fein a banned terrorist organisation, this scared the IRA so much they decided to get rid of their gun's.....and why were the IRA scared....money, if they became banned in the US then they would lose their biggest provider of money.

The US Govt has no time since 9/11 for any terrorist group and with three IRA men having been arrested helping commies in Colombia the IRA where shitting them selves the money would dry up.

What ever the right or wrongs of the past this is a good day for the people of Ireland who more than anybody want to live in peace.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Now that is cool.

 

[Pokerman]

raising a Guinness to peace

 

[naudiz]

*dances nekkid through the thread*

Woo hoo!

 

[OUTSIDER]

Shit if we'd known that it was all about the money earlier we would have pulled out the troop's years ago and sent in the accountant's instead

 

[mind canvas]

funny though hey... people in the USA had been funding the IRA for a long time before, and its only talk, been down this road b4..there's always the radicalists who oppose peace. It's another start, but unfortunately I doubt its the end to the troubles in Ireland somehow...

 

[OUTSIDER]

funny though hey... people in the USA had been funding the IRA for a long time before, and its only talk, been down this road b4..there's always the radicalists who oppose peace. It's another start, but unfortunately I doubt its the end to the troubles in Ireland somehow...

Not just talk, it's been confirmed by general Chasterlain(sp) an outside expert who was chosen by UK Govt and the IRA to be an independant judge.

 

[Mensa]

Not just talk, it's been confirmed by general Chasterlain(sp) an outside expert who was chosen by UK Govt and the IRA to be an independant judge.

To quote President Ronald Reagan "Trust but verify."

 

[shadowsource]

So now let's hope -

That the UDA, the Red Hand, the UVF, etc. will all either decommission or will be forthrightly crushed by the British government and by the soon-to-be-renamed and reorganized Royal Ulster Constabulary. The IRA was waiting for the police reorganization, so now they've jumped the gun, so to speak. I hope it all works. Congrats....

 

[Myrrdin]

Lets hope the IRA allow Catholics to become policemen. For a long time any Catholic who dared to join the RUC was ostracized by his own community and forced to live in hiding.

 

[shadowsource]

That was then, this is now -

Lets hope the IRA allow Catholics to become policemen. For a long time any Catholic who dared to join the RUC was ostracized by his own community and forced to live in hiding.

That was when they were at war with the RUC, of course. They haven't fired at them for quite a while, though the Red Hand, etc. have been doing that a lot. The IRA wants Catholic members of a renamed force. And guess who they're going to want to become members? And guess who's going to say they shouldn't be allowed to become members? This is going to be a bit like those weird army-rebel combos that get set up after third world guerrilla movements settle.