Police Chief Links IRA to Huge N.Irish Bank Raid
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Northern Ireland's police chief blamed  the IRA on Friday for a massive bank raid in Belfast, an  accusation that undermines efforts to hand running of the  British province back to its divided Catholics and Protestants.
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More than 22 million pounds (31.48 million euros, 42.1 million dollars) was taken in this week's dramatic robbery at the Northern Bank in Belfast, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said.
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A bank heist and a stabbing undermine trust-building efforts. Police blame the IRA.
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A spectacular bank robbery in Belfast last month, in which thieves netted nearly $50 million, has cast a pall on Northern Ireland peace negotiations and thrown Catholic-Protestant political relations in ...
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Police have raided properties in two Irish Republican Army strongholds of Belfast in search of the Â£22 million ($42.5m) stolen this week from a bank&#39;s underground vault.
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More than 500 police mounted dawn raids around the capital to smash a suspected 100-million-pound cocaine network, a senior officer said Wednesday.
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The Irish Republican Army committed last month's massive robbery of a Belfast bank, the Northern Ireland police commander bluntly announced Friday in a move that complicated the province's peacemaking efforts.
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A gang held the families of two  Northern Ireland bank officials hostage for 24 hours before  stealing about 20 million pounds ($39 million) in one of  Britain's biggest robberies, police said on Tuesday.
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A substantial amount of money is stolen from a Northern Bank branch in the centre of Belfast.
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BELFAST, Dec. 21 -- Thieves took hostage the families of two top bankers and forced the officials to help them steal more than $39 million from the vaults of a Belfast bank&#39;s main office, authorities said Tuesday.
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The NI secretary and Irish Foreign Minister are 100% convinced the IRA was behind the Northern Bank raid.
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AN armed gang made up of former terrorists stole up to Â£40million in one of the country&#39;s biggest ever bank raids. Two managers were taken at gunpoint from their homes and forced to open the vaults of the Northern Bank in Belfast.
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Police in Northern Ireland on Friday blamed last month's $50 million bank robbery here on the outlawed Irish Republican Army, in a move that is certain to derail peacemaking efforts in the province.
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Police investigating this week's 22  million pound ($42 million) bank robbery in Northern Ireland  have carried out raids on commercial and residential  properties.
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Police in Northern Ireland are expected today to formally implicate the IRA in last month's $41 million Belfast bank heist, British and Irish officials said, and Britain's top official in Northern Ireland said that could dramatically complicate efforts to restore a power-sharing government there.
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The Provisional IRA was planning the 26.5m raid on the Northern Bank for up to two years, according to the latest intelligence supplied to the Irish and British governments.
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Detectives in Northern Ireland are investigating a bank theft that may be in excess of 20 million pounds ($38.5 million), the police said.