WikiLeaks: Sinn Fein Leaders Knew of Bank Heist

Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, right, and president Gerry Adams arrive to speak to the media at Parliament Buildings, Stormont, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Jan. 25, 2010. A WikiLeaks cable reveals a former Irish prime ministers thought Adams and McGuinness knew about a bank robbery planned by the IRA.

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The Guardian reports Sunday that Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness carried out negotiations for the Good Friday agreement with Irish then-prime minister Bertie Ahern while the two had explicit knowledge of a bank robbery that the Irish Republican Army was planning to carry out. The information comes from a WikiLeaks cable.

The cable states that Ahern figured Adams and McGuinness knew about the 26.5 million pound Northern Bank robbery of 2004 because they were members of the "IRA military command," according to the Guardian. Adams has always maintained he is not a member of the IRA.

One cable reads, "The [prime minister] ... believes Sinn Fein leaders were aware of plans to rob the Northern Bank even as they negotiated with him last fall. Publicly, he has been unprecedentedly critical of Sinn Fein and, until recently, greatly reduced private contacts as well," according to the Guardian.

The 1998 Good Friday agreement was a massive aid to the Northern Ireland peace process. It included among its many provisions that all parties involved in the process would use exclusively peaceful and democratic means, and there would be a repeal of the Government of Ireland Act of 1920 by British Parliament.

Adams is running for a seat in the Irish parliament. He stepped down from his Northern Ireland assembly seat to do so.

Read the full story here.

[wyodutch]

The following piece appeared in nespapers around the world... but not in the American media. You think maybe the Israel-First lobby kept it out since it paints Iran in a different light than the war-mongers prefer?
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"Leaked US cables show that Australia sees the Iranian nuclear programme as a "deterrent," a sharply contrary view to that of most Western countries. The leaks also reveal that Australia doesn't share the assessment that Iran is a rogue state. Also, Australian intelligence agencies fear Israel may launch a military strike on Iran to knock out its nuclear facilities, which they said could trigger a nuclear war, leaked US diplomatic cables have shown."

[wyodutch]

Meanwhile... our war of occupation in Afghanistan isn't going well...
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December 12, 2010 - Kabul - Six U.S. troops were killed Sunday when a man rammed a minivan packed with explosives into a newly built military installation in Kandahar Province, U.S. and Afghan officials said.
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Must be some way we can blame WikiLeaks for this mess too. After all... *someone* must have placed those troops in danger... right?

[differnet]

Yes, Mr. Assange, please go ahead and release documents related to terroristic/quasi-political groups. Your lifespan will only be further reduced. If I were you, I would stop worrying about the USA and be more worried about large corporation and groups like the IRA.

[infantryman1968]

WikiLeaks: Sinn Fein Leaders Knew of Bank Heist


LOL!


Assange knows that 99% of the world waits to be lead.

Ironically, all of the worlds infamous dictators all started out as a "political prisioner".

Where are the documents proving Bush knew their were no WMD in Iraq?

Where are the documents proving the U.S. Government took out JFK, RFK and MLK?

[Wookiee-1138]

That's a damn lie. Everything Yank intelligence sources know comes from Harrison Ford in Patriot Games. They wouldn't know an Armalite from a vagrant who sets himself on fire.

[genome2]

Wikileaks aren't the only ones who know secrets the Spirits see everything and know all the scores.