Kew Files: Adams and McGuinness separately said IRA had been wrong not to decommission earlier
Declassified documents reveal impact of 9/11 on talks with Provos to give up arms, governments’ frustrations and methods of destroying weapons
Prime Minister Tony Blair with Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness in his office at the House of Commons
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness were in Dublin to meet US President George W Bush’s envoy to Belfast.
Richard Haas was already furious with the IRA over its collaboration with Colombia’s FARC rebels, to whom it had been selling bomb technology which could have killed US soldiers.
