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Decommissioning Has Happened (BBC Website) and full report due Monday .

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  • 25-09-2005 11:51pm
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    Sponge Bob
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    and the full report is due tomorrow .

    My opinon is that this should have been completed about 2-4 years ago and that the IRA only did it reluctantly in response to the furore over the Short Strand Butchers after the murder of Raymond McCartney . That means its good news 'lite' at this stage rather than good news no doubt about it.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4281104.stm
    A report confirming that IRA decommissioning has been completed is to be given to the British and Irish governments on Monday.

    The churchmen who witnessed the process were Catholic priest Father Alex Reid and ex-Methodist president Harold Good.

    and
    General de Chastelain, Andrew Sens and Tauno Nieminen - the commissioners of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning - have been in Ireland overseeing the latest round of decommissioning since the beginning of September.

    however the party poopers are lining up already

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4279256.stm
    There won't be the photographs demanded by Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party last year, and there is nothing to suggest that the DUP-nominated church witness - the Reverend David McGaughey - will be involved.

    and the biggest poopers of all
    The focus will switch soon to the business of loyalist decommissioning.

    It has been their guns that have been loudest recently, and not one weapon has been decommissioned by the main organisations - the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Ulster Defence Association.

    How many guns and clips were they allowed to keep for personal security again or were they issued with new ones by the British ?


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