Brian Keenan, former IRA leader
                   
charlotte.com     22-May-2008            

Brian Keenan, a commanding figure during the Irish Republican Army's long march from war to peace, died Wednesday of cancer, the Sinn Fein party said. He was 66.He built up the IRA's weapons arsenal in the 1970s, directed its bombing campaign in England and served on the IRA's ruling "army... [read full story]                    


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