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...that helped to kill the latest round of peace talks. $95,000 of that stolen cash has turned up - inside a police sports club in Belfast. Red-faced police there said the cash had been planted by the I.R.A. to distract from the damaging raids in the Irish Republic. Sinn Fein denies criminal ties. But a party member...
...arrested in the raids and later released without charge. Sinn Fein's chief negotiator, Martin McGuinness, claimed he didn't know the man. Minutes later, they were shown on TV chatting together at an election event. After years of nurturing Northern Ireland 's peace process by ignoring I.R.A. activity on the margins, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern is out of patience. The peace process is going nowhere, he says, until Sinn Fein becomes a purely political organization. And that means the I.R.A. has to make a clean break from crime. - By Chris Thornton Bank Order SWITZERLAND The Supreme Court ordered...
...fight and negotiate." Although they have no immediate plans to halt attacks on U.S. troops, they say their aim is to establish a political identity that can represent disenfranchised Sunnis and eventually negotiate an end to the U.S. military's offensive in the Sunni triangle. Their model is Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, which ultimately earned the I.R.A. a role in the Northern Ireland peace process. "That's what we're working for, to have a political face appear from the battlefield, to unify the groups, to resist the aggressor and put our views...
...everyone involved in negotiations accepted the crisis could get worse. "These are very dangerous times," Martin Ferris, a former I.R.A. gunrunner who sits in the Irish parliament, told TIME. What makes a soft landing especially tricky is that Ahern has become fiercely critical of republicans. Ahern believes Sinn Fein duped him by saying the I.R.A. would retire when, he says, it knew the Belfast heist was being planned. Salvaging the negotiations could take months. For the people of Northern Ireland, the only good news is that the two sides are pointing fingers instead of guns...
...political deficit looks harder to fix. "It's a serious setback, let's face it," Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary, Paul Murphy, told TIME. Orde didn't offer proof but, if true, his accusation means the robbery was planned at the same time the I.R.A. 's political allies in Sinn Fein were negotiating with the Irish and British governments. The unionists, who would have been its partners in a new power-sharing administration, now want Sinn Fein banned from office. That seems unlikely; as the main nationalist party in the province, it represents a quarter of voters. The peace process...