{"id":3500,"date":"2005-07-28T12:51:28","date_gmt":"2005-07-28T19:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/07\/28\/ira-orders-end-to-terrorism\/"},"modified":"2005-07-28T12:51:28","modified_gmt":"2005-07-28T19:51:28","slug":"ira-orders-end-to-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/28\/ira-orders-end-to-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"IRA orders end to terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe IRA claims to have given up on its terrorism campaign,<\/a> ordering its jihadis to stand down:<\/p>\n

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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.”<\/p>\n

Mr Ahern added: “If the IRA words are borne out by the verified action it will be a momentous and a very historic development.”<\/p>\n

Mr Adams called it an “emotional day” and, flanked by senior members of Sinn F\u00e9in, 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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading “IRA orders end to terrorism”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Us","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}