Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Cold dead hand

The IRA has held on to some guns after its "final act of decommissioning". Shocker.

According to a BBC news story:

The head of the body responsible for overseeing decommissioning [the Independent Monitoring Commission - IMC], General John de Chastelain, said there was no indication that the "quantities of arms involved were substantial".

But intelligence reports suggest that the IRA is still holding on to weapons, despite making a big deal of "putting the weapons beyond use" in 2005.

In a classic example of British understatement:

"The level of confidence which he's expressed...is not a level of confidence about full decommissioning that we are in a position to share," said Lord Alderdice [an IMC Commissioner].

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