Hillary: IRA called Ian's bluff

Charles · Aug 5, 2005

THE IRA "called Ian Paisley's bluff" by announcing the end of its campaign of violence, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has told the Belfast Telegraph.
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Asked about statements in her memoir, Living History, that the DUP leader the Rev Ian Paisley seemed stuck in a time warp, she said that she believed that all the obstacles he could place in the way have now been cleared.

"In effect, I think that the IRA has called his bluff," she said.
"The constant demands about what the IRA needed to do have been met and now it really is up to the DUP, of which he continues to be the principal spokesperson but is not the only leader."

Senator Clinton said that she realised it would still be difficult to persuade Mr Paisley to enter a government with Sinn Finn.
"I'm not underestimating the difficulty because, as I wrote in my book, it was very apparent to me that this was a person who had a very set view of the world and was unlikely personally to change," she said.

However, she said that younger members of his party did not share Mr Paisley's intransigent views.
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