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Protracted negotiations won political concessions but fell short of achieving the desired action. Republicans didn?t exactly suffer from the stalemate. While unionist support for the agreement began to collapse, Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.?s political wing, rapidly grew into the largest party for Catholic nationalists. Many in Northern Ireland believed decommissioning would never happen...
...Pentagon, peace wasn?t one of them. But the shockwaves that rippled across the globe after the attacks on New York and Washington didn?t just bring war. Last week they proved to have one unforeseen, positive effect as changing attitudes to terrorism helped push the faltering Northern Ireland peace process decisively forward...
...made an "unprecedented move to save the peace process," and there was little argument on that point. British Prime Minister Tony Blair praised the group?s "boldness and courage," recognition that arms decommissioning is a difficult and radical departure for the I.R.A. Centuries of fighting the British in Ireland have been sustained by "the pike in the thatch" - hidden weapons stored for another generation of conflict...
Intense negotiations among Belfast, Dublin and London established that the elements of the summertime package could still save the Northern Ireland government from collapse, and the I.R.A. was finally persuaded to move. Sinn Fein also admitted some responsibility over the Colombian episode to answer the U.S. concerns...
Some in Northern Ireland remain worried that the size and method of the arms disposal remain shrouded in secrecy, which De Chastelain says is needed to continue the process. Gina Murray, whose 13-year-old daughter was killed by an I.R.A. bomb exactly eight years before decommissioning, is not alone in having doubts. "I think I have to see it to believe it," she said. But O?Dowd says the actions solved the republican movement?s problems in the U.S. at a stroke. At home, the peace process is revived, but some of its deepest problems haven?t been resolved...