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Article: Sinn Fein faces rising pressure, cash penalties over IRA activity
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- April 20, 2004
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SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
04-20-2004
Dateline: DUBLIN, Ireland
The governments of Britain and Ireland are warning Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army-linked party, it must end all IRA activities or face growing financial and political penalties.
Britain announced Tuesday it was cutting 120,000 pounds (US$215,000) in annual taxpayer-provided funding to Sinn Fein as both governments jointly published an expert report into current activities of the IRA and a half-dozen other illegal groups in Northern Ireland.
The Independent Monitoring Commission, which includes a former deputy director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, blamed the IRA for a range of ...