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Priest believes IRA on bank raid
Fr Alec Reid said he believes IRA denials over bank raidThe priest who compared unionists to Nazis in their treatment of Catholics has said he believes IRA denials it carried out the Northern Bank robbery.
Fr Alec Reid was speaking about the £26m raid during a BBC NI Hearts and Minds interview, which was recorded earlier this week.
"On that issue their leadership has denied it. I believe absolutely they had no truck to do with it," he said.
Fr Reid, who witnessed IRA disarmament, apologised for his Nazi comments.
Fr Reid conceded that it was possible IRA members out to feather their own nests could be involved in criminality because every organisation could have individuals prepared to go to such lengths.
However, in the programme broadcast on Thursday night, he said he did not accept the IRA was a criminal organisation.
'War'
"The whole spirit of that would be a betrayal of the whole meaning of the republican movement," he said.
"In their own minds they are fighting a war."
The decommissioning witness said he was also opposed to the paramilitary style attacks carried out in nationalist neighbourhoods and he knew republicans who wanted an alternative.
However, he said the attacks occurred in the context of there being no police service in nationalist areas.
"There is an absence of a police force that has functionality in nationalist districts and people are going around who are raping, who are breaking into houses, who are joy-riding and knocking people down, who are terrorising the elderly people," he said.
"There are drugs of course... those people, whoever they are, they will do something about it themselves."
Fr Reid was criticised by DUP assembly member, Ian Paisley junior.
Mr Paisley said Fr Reid "appears to have totally, utterly lost it".
"He is in denial about criminality and if he is in that sort of denial there can be little credibility in what he says or what he claims to have seen," he said.
"If he had not made the Nazi comment last night, these comments alone would have struck at his credibility."
The Ulster Unionist Party's Fred Cobain said no-one has the right to carry out paramilitary style attacks.
"There is no justification for this type of action and people should not be trying to even explain it. It is wrong and Fr Reid should know that. He is a priest," the North Belfast assembly member said.
"The danger of comments like these is that they are used to legitimise this type of activity."
Fr Reid's comments on the treatment of Catholics at Wednesday night's public meeting involving his fellow decommissioning witness, the Rev Harold Good, were also criticised by Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain.
are thes the words of a man of god this man has been a friend of gerry adams and confidant so what is he putting his two pence in for.is it only a couple of ira men well the ones who killed the gardi officer in a bungled robbery was that a act of war? and the drugs that they supplied was that a act of war? the innocent civillans they targeted was that a act of war? many say that civillians get killed in war but this was nt a war it was terrorists who bombed and killed and torturted there own kind so to try and justify it shows this mans contempt.
here is his latest offerings
Priest believes IRA on bank raid
Fr Alec Reid said he believes IRA denials over bank raidThe priest who compared unionists to Nazis in their treatment of Catholics has said he believes IRA denials it carried out the Northern Bank robbery.
Fr Alec Reid was speaking about the £26m raid during a BBC NI Hearts and Minds interview, which was recorded earlier this week.
"On that issue their leadership has denied it. I believe absolutely they had no truck to do with it," he said.
Fr Reid, who witnessed IRA disarmament, apologised for his Nazi comments.
Fr Reid conceded that it was possible IRA members out to feather their own nests could be involved in criminality because every organisation could have individuals prepared to go to such lengths.
However, in the programme broadcast on Thursday night, he said he did not accept the IRA was a criminal organisation.
'War'
"The whole spirit of that would be a betrayal of the whole meaning of the republican movement," he said.
"In their own minds they are fighting a war."
The decommissioning witness said he was also opposed to the paramilitary style attacks carried out in nationalist neighbourhoods and he knew republicans who wanted an alternative.
However, he said the attacks occurred in the context of there being no police service in nationalist areas.
"There is an absence of a police force that has functionality in nationalist districts and people are going around who are raping, who are breaking into houses, who are joy-riding and knocking people down, who are terrorising the elderly people," he said.
"There are drugs of course... those people, whoever they are, they will do something about it themselves."
Fr Reid was criticised by DUP assembly member, Ian Paisley junior.
Mr Paisley said Fr Reid "appears to have totally, utterly lost it".
"He is in denial about criminality and if he is in that sort of denial there can be little credibility in what he says or what he claims to have seen," he said.
"If he had not made the Nazi comment last night, these comments alone would have struck at his credibility."
The Ulster Unionist Party's Fred Cobain said no-one has the right to carry out paramilitary style attacks.
"There is no justification for this type of action and people should not be trying to even explain it. It is wrong and Fr Reid should know that. He is a priest," the North Belfast assembly member said.
"The danger of comments like these is that they are used to legitimise this type of activity."
Fr Reid's comments on the treatment of Catholics at Wednesday night's public meeting involving his fellow decommissioning witness, the Rev Harold Good, were also criticised by Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain.
are thes the words of a man of god this man has been a friend of gerry adams and confidant so what is he putting his two pence in for.is it only a couple of ira men well the ones who killed the gardi officer in a bungled robbery was that a act of war? and the drugs that they supplied was that a act of war? the innocent civillans they targeted was that a act of war? many say that civillians get killed in war but this was nt a war it was terrorists who bombed and killed and torturted there own kind so to try and justify it shows this mans contempt.
posted by William at 1:31 PM
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What evidence is there that the IRA was responsible for the bank raid? All we have been getting for much of the last year is unsubstantiated allegations of IRA involvement.
there are reports that just came out that it has been recently that the gardi have said that its been connected with forencis so what more evendience do you require maybe it was nt the provos but it was ira men if they are working indepently and the money went into there pockets then its nothing to do with the ira but if it went into there coffers then what can be said and wil the ira give up all there money they have aqquired over the years?
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