Word: iras
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...first clue comes in the bewildering slew of acronyms that clog up every discussion of the situation. RIRA - the self-styled Real IRA - has said that it killed the soldiers, while CIRA - Continuity IRA - laid claim to gunning down Carroll. Factional splits and bloody internecine feuds were long a feature of the covert paramilitary republican movement, and RIRA and CIRA are dissident groups dedicated to destabilizing the peace process. Both groups are breakaways from the Provisional IRA, which, together with its political wing, Sinn Fein, have embraced power-sharing in Northern Ireland and renounced violence. The dissidents accuse them...
Bernard Madoff's lawyer, Ira Sorkin, told U.S. District Judge Denny Chin on Tuesday that Madoff expects to plead guilty to charges that will put him in prison for up to 150 years. (Watch the video of Madoff pleads guilty...
...Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass,” even proved their most musically consistent, sonically adventurous album since “Heart Beat.”So what does any of this have to do with Condo Fucks? Condo Fucks are Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew. Yo La Tengo is Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew. But Condo Fucks are not Yo La Tengo—not quite, at least. From their cover of the Kinks’ “Big Sky” on their debut to the Beach Boys?...
...policy of positive discrimination has seen the number of Catholic officers jump from less than 3% to over 20% in five years. The force has also launched recruitment drives to attract more women and ethnic minorities. Members of Sinn Fein, the republican political party with close links to the IRA, now sit on Northern Ireland's Policing Board. Monday's shooting, therefore, was both an attack on an old enemy and an assault on one of the most progressive symbols of the new Northern Ireland...
...United Kingdom's intelligence service - raised the security threat posed by dissident republicans to "severe," meaning an attack was regarded as highly likely. Furthermore, the murder in Craigavon wasn't the first time dissidents have tried to kill police officers. An off-duty policeman was shot by the Real IRA in County Tyrone in November 2007, but survived. Security forces in Northern Ireland also say they have foiled major terrorist attacks by dissidents, including defusing a 300lb car bomb left outside a County Down town last month...