AHERN CALLS FOR CLEAR STATEMENT ON TRUCE
Ahern calls for 'clear statement' on truce
BY Tom Brady Security Editor
THERE was a broad, welcome last night to the imminent decision by the self-styled Real IRA to lay down their arms.
The terror, gang reached their decision at Tuesday's crucial meeting, of senior figures in the organisation in Co Clare.
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern confirmed: the Irish Independent, disclosure of the secret Clare meeting last night. He said: "They have been involved in. the most horrendous deeds and nothing, short of a 'clear statement will be any use to the Government."
The leader of the terrorists," a former" quartermaster-general in the Provisional IRA, was not at the Clare meeting but is crucial to the final decision-making process. Other key votes are held by a woman forced to resign from the Provos' army executive with the quartermaster at a convention in Falcarragh, Co Donegal last October and the ruling body, which includes the former head of the IRA's "engineering" section from Inchicore, Dublin; two men from north Dublin, one each from counties Cork, Tipperary and Limerick, and a south Armagh terrorist who organised the Omagh bomb.
With the ceasefire declaration from the INLA and the defection of a key bomber from the Continuity IRA to Oglaigh na hEireann rendering the former organisation almost defunct, the quartermaster's group is now being heavily targeted by security forces North and South and former accomplices in the Provisionals to end their murder campaign.
Meanwhile, RUC inquiries into the blast continue to focus on suspected involvement of a number of former Provos from south Armagh.
A group representing victims of violence in the North has called for the British government to include in its new emergency legislation measures to tackle so-called punishment attacks, writes Ben Quinn.
Spokesperson for Families Against Intimidation and Terror (FAIT), Glyn Roberts, yesterday accused the British government of "sweeping punishment attacks under the carpet".
BY Tom Brady Security Editor
THERE was a broad, welcome last night to the imminent decision by the self-styled Real IRA to lay down their arms.
The terror, gang reached their decision at Tuesday's crucial meeting, of senior figures in the organisation in Co Clare.
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern confirmed: the Irish Independent, disclosure of the secret Clare meeting last night. He said: "They have been involved in. the most horrendous deeds and nothing, short of a 'clear statement will be any use to the Government."
The leader of the terrorists," a former" quartermaster-general in the Provisional IRA, was not at the Clare meeting but is crucial to the final decision-making process. Other key votes are held by a woman forced to resign from the Provos' army executive with the quartermaster at a convention in Falcarragh, Co Donegal last October and the ruling body, which includes the former head of the IRA's "engineering" section from Inchicore, Dublin; two men from north Dublin, one each from counties Cork, Tipperary and Limerick, and a south Armagh terrorist who organised the Omagh bomb.
With the ceasefire declaration from the INLA and the defection of a key bomber from the Continuity IRA to Oglaigh na hEireann rendering the former organisation almost defunct, the quartermaster's group is now being heavily targeted by security forces North and South and former accomplices in the Provisionals to end their murder campaign.
Meanwhile, RUC inquiries into the blast continue to focus on suspected involvement of a number of former Provos from south Armagh.
A group representing victims of violence in the North has called for the British government to include in its new emergency legislation measures to tackle so-called punishment attacks, writes Ben Quinn.
Spokesperson for Families Against Intimidation and Terror (FAIT), Glyn Roberts, yesterday accused the British government of "sweeping punishment attacks under the carpet".
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Publisher: IRISH INDEPENDENT
Ref: II/123
Published Date: 27-Aug-98
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