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NEWS ABOUT: IRA

IRA stories: 16 news summaries

 Libya Won't Pay 
 IRA Bomb Victims 

Gaddafi's son rebuffs Brown over compensation for terrorist attacks

Sep 7, 09 8:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - More messiness in the aftermath of the Lockerbie bomber's release. Following the Scottish government's decision to free Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, victims of IRA attacks in the 1990s have pressed Gordon Brown to petition for compensation from Libya, which allegedly provided the explosive Semtex in at least 10 attacks. Brown first said... More »

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Gordon Brown • Libya • Moammar Gadhafi • IRA • Lockerbie • Troubles • Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi


 Jacko Wants 
 Apology for 
 IRA Joke 

Singer wants apology for 'disgusting slur'

Mar 20, 09 8:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Jackson was “appalled” after BBC comedians compared him to the IRA, and he wants an apology, the Mirror reports. Just days after three IRA-related murders, the comedians noted that both Jacko and the terrorist organization are “80s celebrities” making a surprise comeback. “To compare him to... More »

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BBC • celebrity • terrorist • IRA • Michael Jackson • comedian • comeback • controversy • Howard Stern Grid

N. Ireland Police Nab 3 in Soldier Killings

Men aged 41, 32, 21 arrested in pair of raids

Mar 14, 09 9:17 AM CDT
(AP) - Northern Ireland police arrested three men today over the killings of two British soldiers last week in a gun attack at an army base by suspected IRA dissidents. Police in Belfast said that men aged 41, 32, and 21 were arrested in early raids at two separate locations and are... More »

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Northern Ireland • British Army • IRA • arrest

 Policeman's Funeral 
 Unites Northern Ireland  

Killing by IRA splinter group provokes defiant display in favor of peace

Mar 14, 09 7:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Northern Ireland's Catholics and Protestants united yesterday to mourn a policeman killed by an IRA splinter group, the New York Times reports. In what some mourners described as the most improbable gathering of old enemies in modern Irish history, IRA veterans stood side by side with loyalists and security chiefs... More »

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Northern Ireland • British terror attacks • Ulster • IRA • Real IRA • Northern Ireland peace deal • Continuity IRA

 Frantic Cops Hunt IRA Bomb 

Police from both sides of border team to find 300-lb. device

Mar 12, 09 9:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Security forces from both sides of the Irish border are scrambling to find a 300-pound bomb that the Real IRA may have smuggled from the Republic into Northern Ireland. A telephone call alerted authorities that the device was intended for an army barracks. Belfast was also on alert after a... More »

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terrorism • Northern Ireland • United Kingdom • Ireland • IRA • Real IRA • Continuity IRA

 IRA Splinter Groups Likely Coordinated Attacks

Security forces fear loyalist paramilitaries may respond to killings

Mar 11, 09 8:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - The IRA splinter groups responsible for two separate attacks in Northern Ireland within 48 hours most likely coordinated the attacks, security officials tell the Times of London. Officials say the two attacks point to an unprecedented level of cooperation between the Real IRA and the Continuity IRA—which have no... More »

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Northern Ireland • Sinn Fein • British terror attacks • Ulster • IRA


 IRA Splinter Group 
 Behind Cop Killing 

Dissident republicans vow more attacks in Northern Ireland

Mar 10, 09 7:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - A second Irish republican paramilitary group claimed responsibility for the murder of a police officer in Northern Ireland last night, the first constable killed there since 1998. The Continuity IRA, which considers itself the army of a united Irish republic, issued a coded message saying, "As long as there... More »

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Northern Ireland • police • Gordon Brown • Ulster • IRA

(Newser) - A police officer was killed in Northern Ireland tonight amid renewed tensions with suspected Irish Republican terrorists, the Guardian reports. Responding to a call on a private manor southwest of Belfast, one officer was fatally shot in the head and another injured. The Real IRA, which claimed responsibility for killing... More »

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Northern Ireland • IRA • Belfast • shooting

updated

 'Real IRA' Claims 
 It Killed 2 UK Soldiers 

Prime minister rips 'evil, cowardly' ambush

Mar 8, 09 6:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - An organization called "The Real IRA" claimed responsibility today for killing two British soldiers at a Northern Ireland army base, the Independent reports. Four other people, including two pizza delivery men, were seriously wounded in the drive-by ambush, reports the Times of London. The attack occurred just miles... More »

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sectarian violence • Northern Ireland • IRA • Belfast • mass shootings • ambush • troops

As Stocks Sink, New Cash
Cows Emerge

Alpacas, coins, comic books; a stampede to alternative investments

Oct 3, 08 12:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - With stocks tanking, 401(k)s plummeting, and the market’s usual safe haven—real estate—at the heart of the current crisis, investors are seeking refuge in unusual investments—everything from parking spaces to comic books to alpacas, the Wall Street Journal reports. A growing number of retirees are taking individual... More »

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retirement • alpaca • IRA • investment • comics • 401k • gold coins

Analysis

 Does al-Qaeda
 Do the Fist-Bump? 

Forget fist-jabbing, it's hugs that give terrorists away

Jul 16, 08 12:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Terrorists aren’t big on fist-jabbing or bumping—they’re all about kissing and hugging, writes Juliet Lapidos for Slate in the aftermath of the New Yorker's depiction of knuckle-knocking Obamas, a move referred to by Fox News as a “terrorist fist-jab.” Al-Qaeda members, she writes, are... More »

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Barack Obama • New Yorker magazine • Fox News • Osama bin Laden • IRA • FARC • al-Qaeda

Blair Offered to Meet Hooded IRA Militants

And Bill Clinton advised him to do it, new book reveals

Mar 17, 08 7:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new tell-all book by Tony Blair's chief of staff reveals that the former British prime minister offered to meet with eight leaders of the Irish Republican Army during a critical moment in Northern Irish peace talks. Jonathan Powell, one of Blair's longest-serving allies, admits in a memoir being serialized... More »

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Tony Blair • Northern Ireland • United Kingdom • Sinn Fein • Bill Clinton • Gerry Adams • IRA • Troubles • Good Friday Agreement • Jonathan Powell

Former Blair Aide Pushes Qaeda Dialogue

Secret British talks
with IRA could
serve as example

Mar 15, 08 7:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - One of Tony Blair's former top aides has called for Western governments to talk to al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, the Guardian reports. Jonathan Powell, the former British prime minister's chief of staff for 12 years, is thought to have played a key role in negotiating a settlement in Northern... More »

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Tony Blair • Taliban • terrorism • Northern Ireland • diplomacy • United Kingdom • British Foreign Office • IRA • terrorist organizations • al-Qaeda

Major Northern Ireland Militia Renounces Violence

Paramilitary group observes Remembrance Day with gesture toward peace

Nov 12, 07 10:55 AM CST
(Newser) - The largest Protestant paramilitary group in Northern Ireland stood down yesterday but didn't commit to destroying its arms, the Guardian reports. The Ulster Defense Association, the third and last of the major militant groups in the region to renounce violence, announced its commitment to "a society where violence and... More »

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Northern Ireland • IRA • Belfast • Ulster Volunteer Force

Nobel Laureate Downplays 9/11

Lessing: IRA violence
in Ireland was worse than WTC attacks;
Americans are 'naive'

Oct 23, 07 9:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Freshly minted Nobel laureate Doris Lessing said the 9/11 terrorist assault on the World Trade Center “wasn’t that terrible” in comparison to violence wreaked by the IRA in Britain. "Some Americans will think I'm crazy," she said in an interview in Spanish daily El Pais. "... More »

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Tony Blair • Ireland • IRA • Nobel Prize • Doris Lessing • George W. Bush

Britain's Longest Campaign Ends

Brit Army campaign in Northern Ireland shuts down

Jul 30, 07 5:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - The British Army's military campaign in Northern Ireland comes to an end at midnight tomorrow—after 38 years of bloodshed. It's  the longest conflict in the army's history. Some 300,000 military personnel served; casualties included 763 soldiers, and 309 civilians  and members of paramilitary groups.  More »

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Northern Ireland • United Kingdom • Ireland • British Army • IRA • Britain

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