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...Florida, four people were convicted last year of smuggling guns and other weapons out of the state for the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). One of the convicted IRA terrorists, Conor Claxton, testified in federal court that he had gone to South Florida to buy guns at gun shows and was shocked by the variety of weapons available at gun shows and through newspaper ads. And on Oct. 30, Muhammad Navid Asrar, a Pakistani, pleaded guilty in Texas to immigration charges and to illegal possession of ammunition. State authorities reported that in the last seven years that Asrar, an illegal...
...will come roaring back? You can always record the loss and then buy back the same security 31 days later without violating the irs's "wash-sale" rule. You can also sell a security from your taxable account and then immediately purchase the same security in your tax-sheltered IRA or 401(k) account, says Martin Nissenbaum, Ernst & Young's national director of personal income tax planning...
...peace process in Northern Ireland rests precariously in the balance. On Oct. 29 the Irish Republican Army (IRA) announced that it had put a number of its weapons verifiably “beyond use.” This unprecedented move was a great step forward in what had been a faltering peace process, allowing David Trimble and his moderate Ulster Unionist Party to return to the region’s power-sharing assembly. Recently, however, the momentum has been stalled, as hard-line unionists prevented Trimble’s reelection and are attempting to block progress towards a lasting peace...
Trimble and the moderate forces for peace are determined to give the IRA another chance to prove their commitment to the ballot box instead of the gun. Fortunately, a number of neutral assembly members have declared their willingness to support Trimble in an attempt to keep the peace process moving forward. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern must press ahead and ensure that these moderate voices remain ascendant. If all sides make a serious effort to grasp this new opportunity, perhaps Northern Ireland can at last receive the peace and stability that so many...
...British government, the IRA and the protestant extremists can keep compromising and destroying their guns, peace and prosperity will replace anger and pessimism in the north. This can only be done if David Trimble is reelected first minister of the Northern Ireland assembly...