BELFAST (Reuters) – One of the most lethal paramilitary groups in the Northern Ireland conflict is expected to announce on Monday that it has dumped all its weapons, sources close to the militants said yesterday.
The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) had said its armed struggle was over in October but its formal decommissioning will come just days after Northern Ireland agreed a deal to take full control of its own police and justice system.
A small but ruthless splinter group, the INLA killed Margaret Thatcher’s Northern Ireland spokesman Airey Neave with a bomb under his car in the House of Commons car park weeks before she was elected Prime Minister in 1979.
