[list_indonesia] [ppiindia] IRA dan rampok ?
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- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 04:14:17 -0800 (PST)
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Kennedy cancels Sinn Fein meeting
Tuesday, March 15, 2005 Pos
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BOSTON, Massachusetts -- U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy has called off talks with
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams set for St. Patrick's Day.
The decision to scrap Thursday's meeting added to mounting pressure on the
Irish republican leadership following the alleged involvement of the Irish
Republican Army in the killing of a Roman Catholic man in Northern Ireland.
Adams has already been refused a meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush at
the White House and will not be attending the St. Patrick's Day lunch hosted by
U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert.
It is the first time since Northern Ireland's 1998 Good Friday peace accord
that Kennedy, a Democratic Irish-American senator from Massachusetts, has
refused to meet Adams on St. Patrick's Day.
In a statement, Kennedy spokeswoman Melissa Wagoner cited "the IRA's ongoing
criminal activity and contempt for the rule of law" as the reason for Kennedy's
decision.
"Sinn Fein cannot be a fully democratic party with the IRA albatross around its
neck," The Associated Press quoted her as saying. "The time for decisive and
final action is long overdue."
Sinn Fein is reeling from accusations that the IRA mounted the world's largest
bank robbery, stealing .26.5 million ($50 million) from a Belfast bank on
December 20, and was responsible for killing Robert McCartney outside a Belfast
pub on January 30.
Adams had been banned from visiting the United States until 1994, when
then-President Bill Clinton overturned State Department policy to encourage an
IRA cease-fire.
This year marks the first time since 1995 that Adams hasn't been invited to the
White House on St. Patrick's Day.
Instead Bush is set to welcome the sisters of McCartney, a 33-year-old forklift
truck driver who was beaten and stabbed to death in a bar fight. He lived in a
working-class Catholic district considered an IRA heartland.
Nobody has been charged with the murder despite the attack taking place at a
crowded pub and allegedly involving well-known local IRA figures.
The IRA initially denied any involvement in the killing. Last week, though, it
said held a meeting with McCartney's sisters and fiancee, during which it
"stated in clear terms that the IRA was prepared to shoot the people directly
involved." The victim's family rejected the offer, it added.
CNN European Political Editor Robin Oakley said the shooting and the IRA's
unprecedented public offer had horrified the political community.
The British and Irish prime ministers, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, both
denounced the IRA's offer as bizarre.
The outrage over the offer quickly spread to Washington, where U.S. special
envoy Mitchell Reiss said it was "time for the IRA to go out of business."
One of Sinn Fein's top supporters in the U.S. Congress, New York Republican
Sen. Peter King, also has called on the IRA to disband.
King said the IRA had made a series of poor decisions that had sparked anger in
Irish-American circles.
He said it was now standing in the way of a powersharing deal between Sinn Fein
and Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionists and that Americans were finding it "hard
to see what the justification is for the continued existence of the IRA."
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