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NORTHERN IRELAND
Police blame IRA for huge Belfast heist

Hugh Orde

The Irish Republican Army committed last month's massive raid on a Belfast bank, the Northern Ireland police commander bluntly announced Jan. 7 in a move that complicated the province's peacemaking efforts.

Chief Constable Hugh Orde said his detectives probing the Dec. 20 raid on Northern Bank -- when a hostage-taking gang stole an estimated 26.5 million Pounds ($50 million) the biggest all-cash robbery in history -- were confident that members of the outlawed Provisional IRA planned and carried it out.

The IRA and its allied Sinn Fein political party have repeatedly rejected mounting accusations of IRA involvement in the robbery.

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