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 THE BLANKET * Index: Current Articles
The narrative shifts from the perspective of the Real IRA to that of the Irish and British security forces and the relatives of the victims of the Omagh bomb.
Real IRA Units now operated independent of each other." (292) This might be the case, but there is not enough evidence to assert this.
For example, a Real republican might reply something like "in 2001 the Army was in a process of restructuration and debating a long term strategy taking account of new circumstances." According to the authors, in 2003, "the RIRA had become a group of free wheeling mercenaries and smugglers answerable only to themselves.
lark.phoblacht.net /lorrealreview.html   (1021 words)

  
 BBC News | NORTHERN IRELAND | Who are the Real IRA?
The Real IRA quickly took over from the older Continuity IRA as the leading home for dissidents, and the security forces believe the two organisations have co-operated in a number of attacks.
The Real IRA carried out the worst single atrocity of over 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland when it bombed the County Tyrone town of Omagh, killing 29 people, in August 1998.
Police suspect the explosion in Birmingham was the work of an Irish republican dissident group, and the Real IRA is likely to be the focus of their attention.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/1471373.stm   (469 words)

  
 Go Ira! - The real story behind the first man to Mars
Ira and I were introduced by a mutual friend somewhere around 1981 and became fast friends almost immediately.
Ira told me that there had been several incidents like this which brought him so close to death, and he finally came to believe that he was simply not going to go home alive.
I gave Nick a brief rundown on how Ira had ended up languishing in my desk and his face immediately to take on that far away look that comes to an engineer’s face when he or she discovers a solution to particularly difficult problem, or stumbles upon a design problem that especially captures the imagination.
www.green-electronics.com /columns/lgoldberg001.html   (3372 words)

  
 Real Estate Adviser: Buying property with your IRA
But going the real estate route with an IRA is not exactly an easy journey and there are some potential pitfalls.
Your IRA can't buy property that's going to be used as your residence or vacation home.
Add these concerns to the custodian's fees, property-brokerage fees, and such a self-directed real-estate IRA may not be as beneficial as a conventionally taxed real estate investment.
www.bankrate.com /brm/news/real-estate/20040731a1.asp   (586 words)

  
 Real IRA admits to Omagh bomb and disbands
The dissident Real IRA announced that it was disbanding last night as it issued an admission of responsibility for the Omagh bomb and declared that the 1998 outrage had "irreparably damaged" the republican cause.
Real IRA prisoners issued a statement admitting responsibility for the attack, and blamed its "corrupt" leadership for its disintegration.
In contrast, the Provisional IRA yesterday rejected Mr Blair's call last week for a signal that it was ready to disband for the sake of rescuing the peace process.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/772632/posts   (1003 words)

  
 >Real IRA (RIRA)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Former IRA "quartermaster general" Mickey McKevitt leads the group; Bernadette Sands-McKevitt, his common-law wife, is the vice-chair of the 32-County Sovereignty Movement.
Most Real IRA activists are former IRA members; the group has inherited a wealth of experience in terrorist tactics and bombmaking.
Most Real IRA members are former IRA who opposed the IRA's cease-fire and bring to RIRA a wealth of experience in terrorist tactics and bombmaking.
www.milnet.com /tgp/data/rira.htm   (422 words)

  
 CBS News | Real IRA Leader Jailed | August 7, 2003 23:34:09
The Real IRA was one of two dissident groups blamed for the Aug. 15, 1998, bombing in Omagh in which 29 people were killed and more than 200 injured.
His wife, Bernadette, is the sister of Bobby Sands, an IRA man who was elected to the British parliament while on a hunger strike in 1981.
The Real IRA, also known as the True IRA, is a member of the State Department's list of foreign terrorist organizations.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/08/07/world/main567177.shtml   (569 words)

  
 Real Estate IRA Investing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Real estate IRA investing opens up a huge range of alternative investments for individuals who are knowledgeable about real estate investing or who work with knowledgeable advisors, sponsors, or brokers.
Investing in real estate for your retirement may serve as a means to diversify your retirement portfolio to hedge against the cyclical changes in the stock market, economy and bank and government-based investments.
Your IRA can also buy property through leveraging, provided the loan is not guaranteed by the IRA owner (or any other disqualified person) and that the IRA has enough liquidity to support the mortgage and expenses.
www.marcotreasures.com /ira.htm   (352 words)

  
 Real IRA
The Real IRA is a hard-line splinter group that broke away from the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in November 1997 on the background of the Northern Ireland Peace Process.
It is strongly suspected that the Real IRA is the military wing of the 32 County Sovereignty Committee, lead in part by Bernadette Sands McKevitt, who serves as acting vice president.
British authorities are convinced that Real IRA is responsible for a 500lb car-bomb attack in the town of Bangridge in August 1997.
www.eyespymag.com /terrorgroupsR.htm   (3285 words)

  
 Real IRA (RIRA)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Many Real IRA members are former Provisional Irish Republican Army members who left that organization after the Provisional IRA renewed its cease-fire in 1997.
The organization may receive limited support from IRA hardliners and Republican sympathizers dissatisfied with the IRA’s continuing cease-fire and Sinn Fein’s involvement in the peace process.
RIRA also is reported to have purchased sophisticated weapons from the Balkans, and to have taken materials from Provisional IRA arms dumps in the later 1990s.
library.nps.navy.mil /home/tgp/rira.htm   (443 words)

  
 MSN Money - Yes, you can buy real estate with your IRA -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Given the real estate boom of the 1980s, and its current resurgence, it's curious that so little is understood about “the real estate IRA.” Perhaps it's simply a lack of advertising.
IRA accounts invested in stocks, bonds and other financial paper are very lucrative for banks, mutual funds, insurance companies and brokerage houses.
If the value of the real estate is expected to appreciate, it would be best to opt for a self-directed Roth IRA and pay the taxes over the next four years.
moneycentral.msn.com /content/Investing/Realestate/P39217.asp   (1444 words)

  
 Terrorism: Q & A | IRA Splinter Groups (U.K., separatists)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
There are three IRA splinter groups: the Real IRA, the Continuity IRA, and the Irish National Liberation Army.
The Real IRA was formed in 1997 by hard-liners who opposed the negotiations being pursued by the IRA and its political wing, Sinn Fein, which culminated in the April 1998 Good Friday accord, a peace pact that renounced violence.
The group that was later established as the Continuity IRA is thought to have carried out a notorious 1987 bombing in the Northern Ireland town of Enniskillen that killed 11 Protestants; experts say the IRA leadership saw the attack as a tactical mistake.
www.terrorismanswers.org /groups/realira.html   (601 words)

  
 BBC - History - The Real IRA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Real IRA is a dissident republican splinter group responsible for the Omagh bomb in August 1998.
Styling itself the Real IRA they denounced the "old leadership" of Provisional IRA for betraying republicanism by allowing Sinn Féin to enter Stormont "in defiance of the constitutional position of Óglaigh na hÉireann to uphold the Republic".
The Real IRA is responsible for the single worst atrocity of the Troubles; the Omagh bomb planted during the town's civic week in August 1998 killed 29 men, women and children.
www.bbc.co.uk /history/war/troubles/factfiles/rira.shtml   (637 words)

  
 BBC News | Northern Ireland | Understanding Northern Ireland
The dissident republican Real IRA has emerged as one of the most dangerous groups opposed to the Good Friday settlement.
It is reportedly led by the man who resigned as the IRA's quartermaster-general in October 1997 after he broke with Sinn Fein because of its support for the Good Friday Agreement.
The Real IRA was responsible for the Omagh bombing on 15 August 1998 in which 29 people died.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/northern_ireland/understanding/parties_paramilitaries/real_ira.stm   (219 words)

  
 Real IRA is illegal, rules court Alex Richardson
In a decision handed down at the court of appeal in Belfast, a panel of three senior judges, headed by Lord Chief Justice Brian Kerr, said the Real IRA was a banned group, even though it was not specifically mentioned in anti-terrorism legislation.
Girvan said the Real IRA, which killed 29 people in a bomb blast in Omagh in 1998, could not be considered banned because it was not listed in the Terrorism Act of 2000.
The Real IRA split from the mainstream IRA in late 1997 after the latter called a ceasefire in its campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.
www.namibian.com.na /2004/July/world/044F7E2379.html   (493 words)

  
 Real Estate Investments in Your Self-Directed IRA
Speaking across the country to thousands of real estate investors each year, we always love hearing how excited these investors become when they learn that they are able to combine their present investment strategy, (lease options, rehabs, foreclosures, rentals, raw land, notes etc.) with the incredible forces that IRAs offer.
What really astounds them is the realization of how much faster their money is able to compound without the eroding factor of taxes.
Real estate investors should realize that they are eligible to take full advantage of small business retirement plans created by the government.
www.creonline.com /art-161.html   (1473 words)

  
 Using Your IRA For Real Estate Investing
Through the use of a "self-directed IRA," an account that allows you to select your own investments, "investors can sell real estate, buy stocks, sell stocks, buy real estate, back and forth, all within one retirement plan," explains Wagner.
The same tax benefits remain regardless of whether you're buying stocks or real estate, "All gains are tax-deferred as you buy and sell within the retirement," says Wagner.
Using your IRA for real estate investing has to be on investment properties only, not a residence.
realtytimes.com /FinancialWire/pages/1.47_5usingira.htm?opendocument&ID=lennharley   (474 words)

  
 British double-agent was in Real IRA's Omagh bomb team
SECURITY forces didn't intercept the Real IRA's Omagh bombing team because one of the terrorists was a British double-agent whose cover would have been blown as an informer if the operation was uncovered.
The revelations follow claims by another British double-agent in the IRA, Kevin Fulton (not his real name), that he phoned a warning to his RUC handlers 48 hours before the Omagh bombing that the Real IRA was planning an attack and gave details of one of the bombing team and the man's car registration.
Last night, the Sunday Herald was told by republican sources that the Real IRA had launched an internal inquiry on Friday morning to find the spy in their midst.
www.prisonplanet.com /news_alert_mi5terror_4.html   (754 words)

  
 Irish Police Arrest Real IRA Members
Police in the Irish Republic have arrested the leaders of the Real IRA, the Republican dissident group responsible for the Omagh bombing.
They believe the Real IRA had planned bomb attacks to coincide with the Ulster Unionist council vote on a return to power-sharing with Sinn Fein.
McKevitt, a former quartermaster with the IRA, broke away from the organization in 1997 in protest of the IRA's cease fire and the peace process.
www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=436   (419 words)

  
 KtB - High Lonesome Theology: Louvin Bros.
Ira Louvin, a drunkard, a brute, and one half of Elvis’ favorite gospel duo, sang in a tenor that pioneered the place of sin close to the heart of country music.
When Ira was killed by a drunk driver in 1965, he died with a warrant out for his arrest on DUI charges and with three bullets buried near his spine—the work of his third wife, who had shot him five times in 1963, after Ira had tried to strangle her with a telephone cord.
For Ira, to be a man was to be a drunk, and he was by all accounts the kind of drunk whose sickness looks and feels like a kind of possession.
www.killingthebuddha.com /dogma/high_lonesome.htm   (2179 words)

  
 Bombing Victims' Families Want Real IRA Listed As Terror Group -- 12/04/2001
The Omagh Victims Legal Trust protested this weekend outside the Irish Embassy in London, calling for the Real IRA and its political wing, the 32 County Sovereignty Movement, to be officially labeled terror groups.
A Real IRA bomb killed 29 people in Omagh in 1998, the worst atrocity in the 30-year history of the Northern Irish troubles.
Michael Gallagher, whose 21-year-old son Aidan died in the Omagh bombing, has traveled to Washington, Dublin and London to convince governments that the Real IRA should be officially designated a terrorist organization, a move that could choke off the group's funding and aid police investigations.
www.cnsnews.com /ViewPrint.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200112\FOR20011204e.html   (605 words)

  
 THE REAL ESTATE IRA: AFFILIATE PROGRAM
There is a "secret" that these IRA participants don't know and their IRA portfolio managers don't want them to know.
Real estate is the only investment that has historically continued to increase in value over the years.
Many IRA holders are now on their way to a comfortable retirement because of this book.
www.ira-real-estate.net /affiliate.html   (412 words)

  
 IRA Wealth - Real Estate Investment Strategies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For nearly twenty years, IRA investment expert Patrick W. Rice has taught thousands of men and women his revolutionary strategies for using an IRA to create wealth based on real estate.
The book is organized to first dispel the myth that investing in real estate with your IRA is illegal and second to explain how to structure your IRA investments with a "self-directed" IRA.
The following chapters identify IRA real estate investments based on the level of risk associated with that particular type of real estate investment.
www.militarybyowner.com /Books/ira-wealth.htm   (513 words)

  
 Real estate in your IRA/Texas Realtor
The chart shows the phase-in of the new traditional and Roth IRA contribution limits, including catch-up contributions that may be made by people 50 and older.
IRA custodians that hold real estate will usually allow any form of real estate: raw land, residential, commercial, or rental property.
Investing in real estate through a self-directed IRA might be of interest to some of your clients as well.
www.texasrealtoronline.com /issues/1202/ira/1202ira.html   (1341 words)

  
 Investing in Notes with your self directed IRA
Many people have exited the stock market in recent years because they have lost control and confidence in the assets that their self-directed IRA was invested in.
These notes are also known as hard money and their borrowers are real estate investors who need cash to rebuild homes.
To learn more about how you can prosper in real estate rehabs without having to swing a hammer investing self directed IRA in hard money may be be the answer.
www.iranoteinvestments.com   (487 words)

  
 Real Estate and IRAs
To buy real estate you may have to find an independent administrator to serve as a trustee or custodian.
IRA Resource Associates, Inc in Camas, Wash., helps people find the right administrator for their self-directed IRAs.
One reason you probably shouldn't tackle an IRA real estate investment on your own is the IRS.
www.bankrate.com /brm/news/sav/20010213a.asp?prodtype=grn   (1643 words)

  
 CNN.com - Hunt on for Real IRA bombers - August 3, 2001
The Provisional IRA is observing a cease-fire as part of a peace process after 30 years of strife between the republican and nationalist communities of Northern Ireland.
The Real IRA's most notorious act was the Omagh bombing in 1998 in which 29 civilians were killed, the single worst atrocity in Northern Ireland's three decades of conflict.
The Real IRA split from the IRA to oppose its strategy of backing the participation of Sinn Fein -- a republican political party with close links to the provisionals -- in Northern Ireland's peace process.
edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/08/03/london.blast   (620 words)

  
 CNN.com - Real IRA blamed for London blast - April 15, 2001
It came two days after the renegade Real IRA issued a statement vowing to keep up its struggle to end British rule in Northern Ireland.
The Real IRA split from the mainstream Irish Republican Army in 1997 and is believed to be behind Northern Ireland's single worst atrocity -- the 1998 car bomb attack in Omagh which killed 29 people.
Unlike the IRA, which is under ceasefire, the Real IRA opposes the 1998 Good Friday Agreement upon which the current peace process is based.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/04/15/london.explosion.02   (375 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Norma went on to tell me she wished she had bought real estate instead of "investing in an IRA." She was amazed when I told her she could have her cake and eat it too — or rather, have her IRA and real estate too!
You already know your real estate IRA cannot own property that is used by you, certain family members or your business.
Real estate opportunities are everywhere for those savvy enough to recognize them and motivated enough to take action.
www.brokeragentnews.com /news/residential/2004_2/3_19_2004_sq_1079737529.html   (1510 words)

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