IRA ‘will never hand over all its weapons’

TOTAL IRA disarmament is a mirage, it was claimed yesterday.

IRA ‘will never hand over all its weapons’
Tue, 30 Nov, 2004 - 00:00
Alan Erwin

The warning comes as decommissioning chief General John de Chastelain waits for the call to negotiate his way across miles of landscape where an estimated 150 tonnes of Provisional weapons are hidden.

Former west Belfast IRA man Anthony McIntyre insisted: “There are guns outside their control and some they won’t hand over.

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