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IRA offers to kill own members

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By: BBC News Online

Date: March 9, 2005

Source: BBC News Online, <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4331819.stm> (accessed July 10, 2005).

About the Author: BBC News Online went "live" in November 1997. This article was written by a staff writer.

INTRODUCTION

When Northern Ireland's main political parties signed the Good Friday Agreement, the political settlement which brought an end to the province's 30-year-long troubles in April 1998, it closed one chapter of violence in Ulster's history, but seemingly opened up another. Even...