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Originally Posted by garinda
They'll be banning Gerry Adams and Martin McGuiness next.
Hang on, no they won't, they liked, and funded, that particular style of 'freedom fighter'.
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The U.S. government never funded the IRA. The organization received private donations from American citizens of Irish descent. The IRA may also have engaged in a little Belfast bank heist to the tune of $50 million. Or so the British government suspected. Sinn Fien also indulged in money laundering according to Ireland's Justice Minister. Several police raids were conducted - as recently as '05, I believe, netting around $6 million.