Though the IRA only recently claimed to have decommissioned its weapons (sorry, its old and oboslete arms to be more precise), the process actually began in 2001- again, to much public fanfare about this "historic" move. Well, it turns out that a full year after the IRA began to decommission they were importing even more.
Today's Belfast Telegraph carries a front page story about the police seizure of 10,000 rounds of 7.62 Russian ammo last October. The ammo was purchased through an arms dealer in Germany in 2002 and it ended up stored in a house in Belfast.
The Chief of Police here has briefed the watchdog group, the Independent Monitoring Commission, about the ammunition cache and they (the IMC) are still expected to announce that everything is fine- the IRA are officially "inactive". No word on what they say about the terrorists preparing to be active again if things don't go their way politically.
One wonders just what else is happening about that the police haven't discovered. Handy that since the IRA announcement Tony Blair ordered the removal of border watch towers- used to prevent the IRA smuggling items across the border- and listening posts in Belfast itself. According to the PM, we're all perfectly safe now.
Good job he's doing in the war on terror...
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