IRA Disarmament

From The Guardian: "The IRA's entire arsenal of weapons has been destroyed, the head of the international decommissioning body said yesterday. The retired Canadian general John de Chastelain said that he had examined 'large quantities of arms' which he was satisfied made up the 'totality of the IRA's arsenal.' This included 'a full range of ammunition, rifles, machine guns, mortars, missiles, handguns, explosives, explosive substances and other arms'."

The report comes from the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (IICD). Several web sources have posted the text of the brief report:

BBC News

CAIN web service

Northern Ireland Office

The CAIN Reports and Statements by the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (IICD) website hosted by the University of Ulster is an excellent source for IICD documents. The BBC News and Guardian websites have good links to other background documents. Finally, the White House and State Department have posted the U.S. response to the IRA statement on decommissioning.

Sources: "Entire arsenal was destroyed, monitors say." Guardian Unlimited September 27, 2005.
"IRA 'has destroyed all its arms'." BBC News. September 26, 2005.