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Mon 08 Aug 2009Dissidents motivated by vanity, says Adams
SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams has accused dissident republican groups of engaging in futile “old-fashioned physical forcism” and suggested they recently murdered two British soldiers and a PSNI officer “almost because it could be done”.
Ahead of a meeting in Navan today with party members from all over Ireland to try to plan a course that would see an improvement in party fortunes in the Republic, Mr Adams took time to turn his scorn on the dissidents.
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