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"President Bush personally ordered that Gerry Adams be frozen out of official engagements during his visit to America, furious that the Sinn Fein leader had betrayed his efforts to help to re-start the Northern Ireland peace process.
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Mr Bush now views Mr Adams in the same unfavourable light as he did Yasser Arafat, the late Palestinian leader, a senior presidential adviser said last night. “At the White House, Adams is now regarded with the same sort of disdain as Arafat,” the adviser told The Telegraph. “The President no longer considers Mr Adams a reliable partner for peace. He doesn’t want to meet him.”
Mr Bush was enraged to learn that at the same time as he was pressing Mr Adams late last year to relaunch the power-sharing deal, Sinn Fein’s armed wing, the IRA, was planning the £26 million Northern Bank raid in Belfast. He had telephoned both Mr Adams and Ian Paisley, the leader of the Democratic Unionists, in an attempt to persuade Northern Ireland’s two biggest parties to resume the stalled peace negotiations…"
news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/13/wadams13.xml
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Mr Bush now views Mr Adams in the same unfavourable light as he did Yasser Arafat, the late Palestinian leader, a senior presidential adviser said last night. “At the White House, Adams is now regarded with the same sort of disdain as Arafat,” the adviser told The Telegraph. “The President no longer considers Mr Adams a reliable partner for peace. He doesn’t want to meet him.”
Mr Bush was enraged to learn that at the same time as he was pressing Mr Adams late last year to relaunch the power-sharing deal, Sinn Fein’s armed wing, the IRA, was planning the £26 million Northern Bank raid in Belfast. He had telephoned both Mr Adams and Ian Paisley, the leader of the Democratic Unionists, in an attempt to persuade Northern Ireland’s two biggest parties to resume the stalled peace negotiations…"
news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/13/wadams13.xml