The IRA claims to have given up on its terrorism campaign, ordering its jihadis to stand down:
Bertie Ahern, the Irish prime minister, said the British and Irish governments had worked for 11 years for today’s outcome. He said: “The war is over, the IRA’s armed campaign is over, paramilitarism is over and I believe that we can look to the future of peace and prosperity based on mutual trust and reconciliation and a final end to violence.”
Mr Ahern added: “If the IRA words are borne out by the verified action it will be a momentous and a very historic development.”
Mr Adams called it an “emotional day” and, flanked by senior members of Sinn Féin, spoke directly to IRA volunteers, telling them: “National liberation struggles have different phases – a time for struggle … a time for war, and also a time to engage, to put the war behind us all – this is that time.”
I’ll believe it when I see it, but meanwhile those who supported the terrorist campaign by raising money in the US (Ted Kennedy, Tom Hayden, Peter King) still need to be prosecuted.