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Dec 19th 2014, 1:35 pm

#46

scot47

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Re: Torture

Torturing your adversaries might make you feel better. It does not provide much useful information.

Dec 20th 2014, 1:28 am

#47

kimilseung

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Re: Torture

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Originally Posted by Bob

Exactly. Cutting off the money would have been far more effective....then again, the IRA weren't on the ban list in the US at the time :/

I kind of just assumed that the money was supposedly for Sinn Feinn, thus never an issue of terrorism.

edit: I was very much wrong http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1563119.stm
says Sinn Feinn "was de-designated as a foreign terrorist organisation by the US State Department in 1994"

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