Adams 'may be wrong' on IRA and bank heist

[emad]

Independent
By David McKittrick, Ireland Correspondent
17 February 2005


The Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams, has said he "might be wrong" in believing the IRA was not involved in the pre-Christmas bank raid in Belfast in which £26m was taken.

Mr Adams's comment was seen by many as a departure from the previous absolute insistence by both the IRA and Sinn Fein that republicans did not carry out the robbery. The British and Irish governments have blamed the IRA.

He quickly issued a disclaimer saying he believed the IRA, and added: "Any other interpretation of my remarks is malicious and misleading".

Those remarks came during an interview yesterday with a Madrid radio station, Cardenasur, on a visit to Spain. Mr Adams said he believed IRA assertions, but went on: "Maybe I'm wrong, but I believe them." Observers were left speculating whether his words were the beginning of a damage limitation exercise after weeks in which credibility has drained away from himself and Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/ulster/story.jsp?story=611785

[Stella_Artois]

1. Don't know about anyone else

But i'm suprised.

Have they owned up to the three who were arrested in Columbia yet ? They were not there training narco-terrorists in return for drugs, oh no, they were there on holiday. Yeah, thats it.