Big difference between Islamic and non-Islamic terrorist groups:  Muslims
would be committing mortal sins to betray a Muslim to the infidels.

 

The final sentence in the article is a premature judgement.wishful thinking.

 

Bruce

 



Adams hands names of seven murder suspects to the police
>From David Sharrock in Dublin

London Times

March 04, 2005






FIVE working-class women demanding justice for the murder of their brother
by the IRA last night wrung an unprecedented concession from its political
wing when Gerry Adams announced that he had handed over the names of fellow
republicans to a police body. 

The Sinn Fein president - named in recent weeks by the Irish Government as a
member of the Provisional IRA's seven-member ruling Army Council - said that
he had passed the names of seven party members to the Police Ombudsman of
Northern Ireland. 


 


 

The move comes after allegations by the sisters of Robert McCartney, 33,
that the Roman Catholic father of two children was murdered in a pub by
members of the IRA who then warned witnesses to stay silent. 

The McCartney sisters have refused to be silent, despite their roots in the
close-knit republican stronghold of Short Strand, East Belfast, and called
publicly on the IRA to give up the killers. On Sunday they staged the first
demonstration in the community against the IRA's paramilitary rule of law. 

The family pressure, widely supported at republican grassroots level, on
Sinn Fein and the IRA to take action against members who have been tarnished
as common criminals by their actions brought a breakthrough last night: the
acceptance of the authority of Northern Ireland's policing arrangements for
the first time. 

Until now that had eluded the best efforts of Tony Blair, Bertie Ahern, the
Irish Prime Minister, and even intense political input from the United
States. 

In a statement Mr Adams acknowledged the profound damage to the republican
cause wrought by Mr McCartney's murder a month ago. "I am deeply angry about
the alleged involvement of a number of republicans in the killing of Robert
McCartney," he said. 

"I believe I am speaking for the broad republican constituency in publicly
articulating my outrage and anger at what has happened. All of those
involved in this horrific incident must make themselves fully accountable
for their actions. Nothing short of this is acceptable." 

Giving his first full account of the events, he admitted that he had met the
dead man's sisters. 

"At a meeting on Thursday, February 24, the family gave me a list of people
who they allege were involved. As party president, I immediately instructed
the leadership of Sinn Fein in Belfast to establish if any of those named by
the family were members of Sinn Fein. I was informed that seven of those
named are members of Sinn Fein. All were immediately suspended from the
party. This is on a without-prejudice basis." He added that they would
remain suspended "pending the outcome of the legal process". "If any of
these seven are found to have been involved in the events surrounding the
death of Robert McCartney, or if they do not provide truthful accounts as
the McCartney family have requested, Sinn Fein will take further
"disciplinary action to expel these individuals,"he said. 

In an address in Dublin last night the Catholic Archbishop Sean Brady paid
tribute to the courage and the determination of Mr McCartney's family. 

He added: "It is not good enough; it is not consistent with the principle of
freedom, for people to present this information in a way which cannot be
used to secure a conviction. 

"What is certainly becoming clearer every day is that a fundamental shift is
taking place in the peace process. 

"The language of constructive ambiguity and moral murk has had its day."

 



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