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13 December 2010
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Leaked US diplomatic cables that shed light on the prospects for an inquiry into Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane's murder have appeared in the Guardian.
The paper also publishes the Irish government's views about Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness's status within the republican movement.
The cables, obtained by the Wikileaks website, date from 2005.
One suggests the Sinn Fein leaders had advance knowledge of the Northern Bank robbery.
Another cable said the former head of MI5 told US envoy Mitchell Reiss that her agency would turn over all the evidence it had on Mr Finucane's killing, provided any inquiry into the killing is conducted under the terms of a law passed in 2005.
The murder of Mr Finucane, 39, by the UDA/UFF remains one of the most controversial of 30 years of violence.
Loyalist paramilitaries shot him 14 times as he sat eating a Sunday meal at home, wounding his wife in the process. The couple's three children witnessed the 1989 attack.
The killing was one of the most controversial of the 30 years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, mainly because of the allegations of collusion between loyalist paramilitaries and members of the security forces.
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The paper also publishes the Irish government's views about Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness's status within the republican movement.
The cables, obtained by the Wikileaks website, date from 2005.
One suggests the Sinn Fein leaders had advance knowledge of the Northern Bank robbery.
Another cable said the former head of MI5 told US envoy Mitchell Reiss that her agency would turn over all the evidence it had on Mr Finucane's killing, provided any inquiry into the killing is conducted under the terms of a law passed in 2005.
The murder of Mr Finucane, 39, by the UDA/UFF remains one of the most controversial of 30 years of violence.
Loyalist paramilitaries shot him 14 times as he sat eating a Sunday meal at home, wounding his wife in the process. The couple's three children witnessed the 1989 attack.
The killing was one of the most controversial of the 30 years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, mainly because of the allegations of collusion between loyalist paramilitaries and members of the security forces.
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