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...Gerry Adams or David Trimble who has imperiled Northern Ireland's peace deal; it is their supporters. Britain has given the IRA until Friday to provide a "credible commitment" to disarm, failing which it will suspend the territory's historic joint assembly and executive. That would flash-freeze the peace process, which London considers preferable to allowing the total collapse that would result if Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble carries out his threat to resign by February 12 in the absence of any disarmament. The crisis reflects the mood of the hard-liners on both sides unconvinced by the compromises...
...While an uncooperative Ressam pleaded not guilty last Thursday in Seattle, Dahoumane remains at large. Then Irish police lost track of Hamid Aich, also Algerian. He lived in Vancouver at the same time as Dahoumane, and the U.S. would like to question him. But he had ducked out to Ireland, where he was arrested briefly during the holidays, then released. Now he has disappeared. Last week came the clincher. A man who might link the Algerians directly to bin Laden slipped past Canadian surveillance to exit the country. Mohambedou Ould Slahi ended up in Mauritania...
Citing his distaste for "the inauthenticity of movies," LIAM NEESON announced last spring that he was quitting the film business. Ireland's favorite son quickly retracted his statement--Neeson can be found on the silver screen in the dark comedy Gun Shy, opening this Friday--but he seems to have found an acting role that suits him more comfortably: narrator. Neeson lent his husky brogue to the pbs documentary The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization, which airs Feb. 9, and taped a special introduction to the Feb. 13 episode of Touched by an Angel, which focuses on the relations of Irish...
...body would make it a lot more difficult to put things back together if Trimble walked out, which is why London believes suspending the institutions is the best way of saving the deal," says TIME London bureau chief Jef McAllister. "But Sinn Fein, the government of the Republic of Ireland and the moderate party SDLP preferred by the majority of Northern Ireland's Catholic voters have warned that suspension could create a dangerous vacuum and deal a mortal blow to the peace process...
...anything, has made their task even more difficult, because the IRA has been adamant that it won't disarm in response to pressure from its enemies." No wonder McGuinness appeared on the verge of tears at his last media conference. Right now there's no lonelier place in Northern Ireland than at the head of Sinn Fein...