Who can crack the IRA's code?

SWANNING around Northern Ireland gives you a different perspective on life there. Near Lambeg, I saw the Israeli flag fluttering alongside the Red Hand of Ulster and the Union Jack. In the nationalist side of Portadown, the graffiti feted the Palestinians.

Who can crack the IRA's code?
Mon, 29 Jul, 2002 - 01:00

Surreal or what?

And rumour has it that Republicans breached British intelligence in Castlereagh, not for any subversive or sinister motives, but to find the missing wheel for their cloned Enigma encoding machine, which would help them to translate the IRA's recent statements into the Queen's English. So far the results have been mixed:

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