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04-12-2009, 01:09 PM
IRA dissidents threaten top Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DUBLIN - Irish Republican Army dissidents Sunday threatened to kill top Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness and resume attacks in England as part of their efforts to wreck the IRA ceasefire and Northern Ireland power-sharing.
An Easter statement from the outlawed Real IRA distributed to Irish media branded McGuinness a traitor because he holds the top Irish Catholic post in Northern Ireland's power-sharing government with British Protestants.
The statement warned McGuinness - a former IRA commander - that "no traitor will escape justice regardless of time, rank or past actions. The republican movement has a long memory."
McGuinness offered no immediate response. He previously has appealed to the public to tell police about dissident IRA activities and says extremist threats won't deflect him from co-operating with Protestant past enemies.
The Real IRA also claimed responsibility Sunday for a long-disputed killing of a Sinn Fein official who was exposed in 2006 as a British spy. Denis Donaldson, Sinn Fein's former chief legislative official inside the power-sharing government, was shot to death at his rural hideaway in northwest Ireland four months after he confessed his duplicity at a Sinn Fein news conference.Article continued at http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2009/04/12/9093091-ap.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DUBLIN - Irish Republican Army dissidents Sunday threatened to kill top Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness and resume attacks in England as part of their efforts to wreck the IRA ceasefire and Northern Ireland power-sharing.
An Easter statement from the outlawed Real IRA distributed to Irish media branded McGuinness a traitor because he holds the top Irish Catholic post in Northern Ireland's power-sharing government with British Protestants.
The statement warned McGuinness - a former IRA commander - that "no traitor will escape justice regardless of time, rank or past actions. The republican movement has a long memory."
McGuinness offered no immediate response. He previously has appealed to the public to tell police about dissident IRA activities and says extremist threats won't deflect him from co-operating with Protestant past enemies.
The Real IRA also claimed responsibility Sunday for a long-disputed killing of a Sinn Fein official who was exposed in 2006 as a British spy. Denis Donaldson, Sinn Fein's former chief legislative official inside the power-sharing government, was shot to death at his rural hideaway in northwest Ireland four months after he confessed his duplicity at a Sinn Fein news conference.Article continued at http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2009/04/12/9093091-ap.html