From Times Online:
The Provisional IRA's military leadership was declared officially redundant by the Government today, after a report declared that the group's terrorist infrastructure “is no longer operational or functional”.
The report, by the Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC), was requested by ministers at the beginning of the summer when it became clear that the new political dispensation in Northern Ireland was in trouble yet again.
The current impasse has been caused by Sinn Fein’s refusal since June to attend meetings of the province’s power-sharing executive because of the opposition of its government partner, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), to the devolution of policing and justice powers from Westminster to Northern Ireland.
The DUP says that it will only agree to the move once there is sufficient public confidence that terrorism is at an end. It demands the complete disbandment of the Army Council, which ran what was arguably Europe's most feared terrorist organisation in the 1980s.
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My Comment: And good riddance to it all.