LONDON, July 28 -- The Irish Republican Army formally declared an end Thursday to its three-decade-long armed struggle against British rule in Northern Ireland and pledged to pursue its aims of a united Ireland through "exclusively peaceful means."
The recent London bombings have removed the cachet from being a European terrorist. When European and American Islamic leaders are issuing fatwah's stating that blowing up innocent civilians is un-Islamic, what is the IRA going to do? IRA Says It Will Abandon Violence |