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Sinn Fein: Gerry Adams
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British officials and Sinn Fein members said it was unlikely that Adams and McGuinness would have made the transatlantic announcements without prior agreement from the IRA to begin disarming. In 1997, when Adams and McGuinness declared that they had urged the gunmen to call a cease-fire, the IRA did so the next day.
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In response to the sisters' highlighting of witness intimidation and IRA involvement, the underground group has expelled three members, while Sinn Fein has suspended seven of its own. Adams ... has told witnesses to offer statements to a police-complaints official, but not directly to the detectives investigating the killing.
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Kennedy made it clear his frustration with Sinn Fein had been rising before the murder. Irish-American politicians had been involved in talks in December "at the same time the IRA was planning a bank robbery," he said. "That sends a special message to many of us who had confidence in terms of the negotiating process." Kennedy, who had met with Adams in every St. Patrick's week for more than a decade, said he had asked him to sever ties with the IRA. "I have done [this] repeatedly over the past years and it has not been effective."
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"The Shamrock Shake is a frosty, minty symbol of all that we hold dear," said Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein, the IRA's political wing. "It is shameful that we as a people cannot enjoy this proud, symbolic beverage any more than one week a year."
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Kennedy had already canceled his traditional St. Patrick's Day meeting with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams. He said in a statement after meeting the sisters: "Their presence in Washington on this St. Patrick's Day sends a very powerful signal that it's time for the IRA to fully decommission, end all criminal activity and cease to exist as a paramilitary organization."
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