Belfast, U.K.
Gerry Adams murder allegation: Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams ordered murders and bombings as an Irish Republican Army commander, according to a book published this week. Adams, a key Republican leader in Northern Ireland, has always said he was not an IRA member. But in Voices From the Grave, a book of interviews conducted with now-deceased IRA members, Adams is alleged to have directed some of the IRA’s most notorious killings. “I never carried out a major operation without the okay or the order from Gerry,” said Brendan Hughes, an IRA member who died in 2008. “And for him to sit in his plush office and deny it, I mean it’s like Hitler denying that there was ever a Holocaust.” Sinn Fein denied the allegations.
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