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Date Posted: 04:19:07 05/28/05 Sat GMT
Author: Lynn
Subject: Victim's family says IRA issuing threats (Chicago Tribune)

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0505210075may21,1,4608165.story


AROUND THE WORLD
Victim's family says IRA issuing threats

May 21, 2005

NORTHERN IRELAND -- Members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army are threatening to attack a Belfast family that has been focusing international attention on the IRA's killing of a Catholic man, sisters of the victim said Friday.
The five sisters and fiance of Robert McCartney, who was fatally stabbed and clubbed by IRA members outside a Belfast pub Jan. 30, have spent the past four months campaigning to bring his killers to justice.
While the McCartney family's efforts have won praise and support from the European Parliament and White House, back home in their hard-line neighborhood, witnesses to the attack have either been afraid or unwilling to give evidence to police.
One of the sisters, Catherine McCartney, said Friday that detectives had told the family of a threat from the IRA.
"This threat implies that [Irish] republican elements are going to take action against the McCartney family if they continue to discredit the [Sinn Fein-IRA] republican movement," Catherine McCartney said.
In Belfast, the IRA's allied Sinn Fein party denied any involvement by the IRA or its own members in threats. "We absolutely abhor any intimidation against the family," it said in a statement.

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