Sinn Fein aware of IRA bank robbery plan, Ahern says

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Times
By David Lister

THE Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness knew that the IRA was plotting the biggest cash robbery in British history even as they were in Downing Street negotiating a peace deal, Bertie Ahern, the Irish Prime Minister, said yesterday.

Amid mounting anger in London and Dublin, Mr Ahern dismissed denials by Mr McGuinness that the IRA had been involved in the raid and said that he had no reason to doubt Hugh Orde, the Northern Ireland police chief.

Mr Orde said on Friday that the Provisionals were responsible for the robbery at the Northern Bank in Belfast six days before Christmas, in which two employees were held hostage and £26.5 million was stolen.

A clearly angry Mr Ahern told RTE, the Irish state radio: “This was an IRA job, this was a Provisional IRA job. This was a job that would have been known to the political leadership.”
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