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...British agent for more than 20 years, his treachery didn't trigger the normal end for informers - a hasty, secret court-martial and a bullet in the back of the head; only five months before, the IRA had renounced violence for good, and so its political arm, Sinn Fein, promised that Donaldson would be left alone...
...more than settling old scores. Donaldson was killed two days before the Prime Ministers of Britain and Ireland, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, were due to launch a joint plan for reviving the faltering political process in Northern Ireland. Thanks to continuing mistrust between Protestant unionist leaders and Sinn Fein, efforts to restart the kind of coalition local government that was borne out of the 1998 Good Friday peace accords have been stalled for the past three years. And the murder of Donaldson, a convicted IRA bomber who served time in prison along with Sinn Fein head Gerry Adams...
...party is shifting between tough-guy talk and moderation-a balancing act similar to the one practiced by Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland and by Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon. As it gains power, Hamas may come under pressure from Europe and the U.S to open talks with Israel- which senior Hamas officials last week said they would consider. But negotiating a settlement that recognizes Israel's right to exist would also force Hamas to renounce the ideology on which it was founded. "Sometimes they must pray that they don't win a majority and have to become responsible," says...
...that position. Another international panel is standing by to verify that the IRA has gone out of business, at which point unionists may begin to find it difficult to maintain it as the excuse for refusing to govern alongside their former enemies in the republican political movement Sinn Fein. But nobody is predicting any early breakthroughs...
That task will fall largely to Gerry Adams, who has led the group's political arm, Sinn Fein, as it evolved into Northern Ireland's largest nationalist party, aided by an I.R.A. cease-fire over most of the past decade. But Adams' effort will be difficult if splinter groups keep up the violence. "Nothing has changed," a member of a splinter group told TIME. "There is still a British presence that has to be removed." The I.R.A. will need to show the same determination to keep the peace as it once displayed to wage the war. --By Chris Thornton. With...