D Monday, October 12, 2009 METRO MI5 planned to blow up Sinn Fin HQ in DublinTHE British Security Services plotted to blow up Sinn Fins Dublin headquarters during the height of the Troubles, a former undercover police officer has claimed. An IRA informer was asked to place the bomb in the offices on Kevin Street in the summer of 1971, according to George Clarke, a retired Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch Detective Sergeant. Mr Clarke said he was told by MI5 to offer his Republican mole 500 to leave the explosives in the property on a Friday night. It was to detonate the next morning when it was known a number of high profile IRA men visited the office to pick up weekly payments from party funds. The counter-terrorism officer, who left the force more than 20 years ago, said the security services eventually decided not to go through with the attack, but not before he had put the proposition to his source. He made the claims in Border Crossing his newly published memoirs of his time working in the RUCs intelligence unit. A spokesman for the UKs Home Office said the Security Services did not comment on past intelligence operations. Clinton: No support for evil Real IRA from the USUS SECRETARy of State Hillary Clinton said yesterday there was no financial support for the evil enterprise of the Real IRA coming from American sympathisers. Dissident republicans were out of step and out of time, said Mrs Clinton, who used a press conference to call for an end to violence in Northern Ireland ahead of her visit there. There is no support coming at all from the United States. The best we can tell is that those who try to inflict harm on others, to cause damage, are funding their evil enterprise from criminal gains. We hope to see an end to all of that. Mrs Clinton stressed: The continuing evidence of extremism in Northern Ireland, because to me terrorism is terrorism, and those who would try to disrupt the peace of people going about their daily lives are out of step and out of time. But it is imperative that the process that was established by the Good Friday Agreement be seen all the way through to conclusion. Hillary Clinton meeting Taoiseach Brian Cowen and Minister for Foreign Affairs Michel Martin in Dublin yesterday Pictures: AFP INLA vows to end 30 years of terrorism A REPUBLICAN paramilitary group vowed to end violence yesterday. The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) announced at a ceremony in Bray that it was ending its 30-year campaign of violence that saw it claim more than 100 lives during the Troubles. Confirmation that the splinter group, linked to infamous attacks such as the murder of British politician Airey Neave in 1979, formally ended its campaign comes as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said violent republicanism has no support among Irish-Americans. Deputy leader of the nationalist SDLP Alasdair McDonnell said: Slowly but surely we are putting the horrors of the past 40 years behind us,. The INLA used an oration at the grave of one of its founders at a cemetery in Bray to announce it was renouncing vio- lence and decommissioning its weapons. Earlier this year the loyalist Ulster Vol- unteer Force decommissioned, while the loyalist Ulster Defence Association start- ed to put its weapons beyond use. The legislation that allows armed groups to dispose of their weaponry without fear of prosecution has only months to run and the British government has said it would not renew it. Any paramilitaries found in possession of weapons after that time face prosecu- tion and imprisonment. The INLA was formed in the 1970s and was known as a brutally violent organisa- tion that also engaged in bitter internal feuds. In 1979 it killed Conservative Shadow Secretary for Northern Ireland Mr Neave who died when a boobytrap bomb exploded beneath his car at the House of Commons in London. In 1982 it was responsible for one of the largest death tolls of the Troubles when it murdered 17 people including 11 sol- diers and six civilians in a bomb attack on the Droppin Well pub in Ballykelly, Co Derry. By STeven McCAFFery Proud: An InLA member back in March 2000 index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html