Adams bolsters suspicion that IRA robbed bank of £26.5m

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From The Guardian:

Gerry Adams last night raised the possibility that the IRA may have robbed the Northern Bank in Belfast after all.

In an interview in Madrid, where he was promoting the last volume of his autobiography, the Sinn Féin leader repeated his denials that republicans carried out the £26.5m raid in December, the biggest heist in UK or Irish history.

"The IRA has said it was not them. I believe them," he told a Spanish radio station. But he added: "But maybe I am wrong."

He said: "What I can say categorically is that Sinn Féin was not involved."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1416289,00.html

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1. Adams clarifies Madrid remarks

http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0217/adamsg.html

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said remarks he made yesterday during a radio interview in Madrid about the Northern Bank robbery before Christmas have been misrepresented.

He said he had made it clear that he believed the IRA when it said it was not involved.

He said any other interpretation of his remarks was mischievous and misleading.

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2. Thanks for the link. Read RTE when I got home from work today.

See that they have made some arrests but, I haven't heard anything about a IRA or Sinn Fein connection with suspects.