"Sinn Fein deputy leader Martin McGuinness, a former IRA commander who led secret talks with Britain that inspired the IRA’s original 1994 cease-fire, said he is certain that both governments are talking to dissident representatives despite their denials."
Just goes to show you that GOVERNMENTS CAN NOT TELL the TRUTH about ANYTHING!!!!
"British, Irish deny report of talks with IRA dissidents" by Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press | August 13, 2010
DUBLIN — The British and Irish governments are in secret negotiations with IRA dissidents in hopes they can be persuaded to abandon violence, the senior Sinn Fein official in Northern Ireland’s power-sharing administration said yesterday — a claim immediately denied by both governments.
Britain and Ireland have insisted publicly that it is pointless to talk to Irish Republican Army splinter groups. They continue to mount occasional bomb and gun attacks in Northern Ireland in an effort to undermine the territory’s Catholic-Protestant coalition and wider paramilitary cease-fires.
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Who are the "terrorists" again?
But Sinn Fein deputy leader Martin McGuinness, a former IRA commander who led secret talks with Britain that inspired the IRA’s original 1994 cease-fire, said he is certain that both governments are talking to dissident representatives despite their denials.
“I do understand the governments will come out and say that this isn’t true, it isn’t happening, and they have all sorts of mechanisms and phrases to use which cover themselves,’’ McGuinness told the BBC in Belfast.
“But the reality is that some of these dissident groups, I know for a fact, have been involved in discussions with both the Irish and the British governments in recent times.’’
British and Irish officials immediately rejected his claims.
The British government initially denied talking to McGuinness and other IRA representatives in the early 1990s. Sinn Fein revealed the secret diplomacy in 1993. Britain admitted using agents and intermediaries to meet IRA leaders sporadically for more than a decade before the 1994 cease-fire. Britain opened official talks with Sinn Fein, the IRA’s legal face, only after the IRA truce.
Some even infiltrated!
The IRA fully disarmed and renounced violence in 2005, formally ending its failed 1970-1997 campaign to force Northern Ireland out of the United Kingdom. IRA attacks claimed nearly 1,800 lives and maimed more than 10,000 other people.
The dissidents, by contrast, have rarely been successful in killing their targets or causing widespread destruction with car bombs.--more--"
So what are those "dissidents" up to?
"IRA dissidents set off bomb near police base" by Associated Press | August 4, 2010
DUBLIN — Irish Republican Army dissidents detonated a bomb in a hijacked taxi yesterday outside a police base in the Northern Ireland city of Londonderry, damaging buildings but wounding no one despite the attackers’ inaccurate warning, police said.
It was the fifth car bomb planted this year by IRA splinter groups trying to undermine Northern Ireland’s three-year-old government coalition of British Protestants and Irish Catholics. Dissidents also fired a homemade mortar shell at the same Londonderry police station in May but it failed to detonate.
None of those attacks since February — targeting police stations, a courthouse, and the British spy agency MI5 — has injured anyone seriously.
Incompetent Irish terrorists just like all the rest, huh?
Londonderry’s police commander, Chief Superintendent Stephen Martin, said two masked men ordered a cabbie at gunpoint to drive into the city’s Bogside district, a traditional IRA power base, shortly before 3 a.m. There they loaded a bomb into the car’s trunk.
“They repeatedly pointed a gun at him and warned him, if he did not do as they instructed, he would be shot,’’ Martin said.
He said the cabbie parked his car outside Strand Road police station, the city’s police headquarters just north of the Bogside, and the gunmen ran away. The driver then warned police he’d been forced to park a bomb outside.
Martin said police almost simultaneously received a coded telephone warning from IRA dissidents warning that the bomb would detonate 45 minutes later.
However, he said, it exploded less than 23 minutes later while officers were still evacuating nearby night spots and rousing people from their beds in nearby apartments.And he miss-set the timer?
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"A car bomb exploded last week in Derry, 90 miles from Crossmaglen. Martin McGuinness, Northern Irish deputy first minister, called the attack a “futile and cynical attempt to try to take us back to conflict.’’
Yes, and EVERYONE SEES THROUGH the false flag tricks now!
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"N. Ireland bomb injures children
LONDON — Three children suffered minor injuries in a bomb attack apparently timed to attack police and emergency services in Northern Ireland. Police said a device exploded close to a school in Lurgan, injuring two 12-year-old children and a 2-year old, who were struck by flying debris. Police had been evacuating homes after reports of a separate device."
Hallmarks of a false flag operation.
