http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8738475/
I think this is good news. Right? Or is it bad and I just don't see it?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8738475/
I think this is good news. Right? Or is it bad and I just don't see it?

What...again? Every time this happens, a bomb goes off somewhere and it all kicks off again. Or we won't free some IRA terrorists because of the IRA's 'good intentions', so they retract their words.
Maybe they mean it this time in light of the recent terrorist attacks in London.



No they don't, but they do go "s**t, if we carry on our armed campaign then the Americans won't give us any more money because they can't be seen to be funding terrorism, and the whole world will turn against us if we try to bomb anything." Admittedly the situation is a mess (will the IRA step up their non-lethal criminal activities?) but by any measure this is still (hopefully) a step forwards.


Don't you just love it when people accuse you of "knowing nothing", just after doing something offensive & juvenile (bus-bombing smilies?), and just before demonstrating their own "poorly informed" opinion (Blair stepping down because NI has been sorted out). Yes I realise they started the current cease-fire about 8 years ago, but the the IRA exists as a criminal/terrorist group (cease-fire or not) and currently the West has a dislike for people who use violence to achieve political/religious aims (especially in the USA, a large source of funding...) and I'm sure this is catalysing the current situation somewhat.
Mephs, the US had started the anti [mostly arab] terror stuff after the lesser-known-and-unsuccessful 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center (osama masterminded THAT one too...)






I never said it was all related (and was serious.) But i think it is somewhat related because ALL world events have a little bit of other world events in them.
the point is, Mephs is right (partially) Just because you're not the government doesnt mean that your fight is irrelevant or wrong. But, governments are made to HELP people. not just SOME people but ALL people in thier country and they even have some responsibility to the rest of the world. If a government is not giving all people equal representation, then they're not doing thier job and reforms are in order.
on the other hand, bombing and militias are not the way to get your point across. When you do that goverments don't listen to you and try to make you public enemy #1. i.e. IRA

sighs...1 thing that the ira want u to think that they have finished there armed campaign..the provos wont stop....everyone knows this ive been in the army for lest bout 4 years and i live in the ni you just know that those ppl will enevitably be doing somit bad/drug dealing/money laundering/ race fixing/armed robbery and probably weapons trafficing. saying that the uda/uff/uvf/lvf/uym arent too far off them aswell there just as bad..
To be honest im sick of the whole lot..i wanna move but i dont know where.. there all the same they say somit n go back on it ,eg their so called cease fire..in 95 then omagh bomb happens in 98.
btw im an irishman
in the RIR

I agree with mephs, for what it is worth, since i do not even live in the UK.
Wasnt there a exclusion from Irish politicians in there own governement a few years ago? This was deu to the terrorism of the IRA. Or am i totaly wrong on this?
