Adams’s secret, now his shame

By Thomas Gagen | Thursday, January 7, 2010 | The Boston Globe

“…Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams kept many secrets as he coaxed the Irish Republican Army away from violence and steered it toward a political settlement with the British government and its Unionist allies in Northern Ireland. Some were widely known – that Adams had been a senior IRA commander in the 1970s, responsible for terrorist attacks. Some were known only to his closest political supporters – that while he was quietly moving Sinn Fein, the IRA’s political arm, toward a peaceful compromise, he was supporting IRA attacks against the British and Unionists….”…BS

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