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Article: Northern Ireland To Empty Prison
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- July 26, 2000
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KRISTIN GAZLAY, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
07-26-2000
Northern Ireland To Empty Prison
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -- By week's end, when most of the remaining inmates file out of Northern Ireland's anti-terrorist Maze prison, the murderers and bombers who made headlines and broke families' hearts during 30 years of sectarian strife will be free men.
The Irish Republican Army sniper who shot the last British soldier killed in Northern Ireland. The bomber who massacred nine people in a Protestant fish shop -- and the Protestant who killed seven people in retaliation. The IRA man who bombed London's Docklands area, killing two.
All of them -- a total of 86 prisoners -- are to ...