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Old 04-21-2005, 09:22 AM   #8
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And the results are in. Thanks to the hearing and the issues raised, the US State Department sided with Sinn Fein and is forcing the british government to open an inquiry into the murders.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4458373.stm

Inquiry into Nelson murder opens

An inquiry into the murder of Northern Ireland solicitor Rosemary Nelson has opened in County Armagh.
Mrs Nelson died after loyalists planted a booby-trap bomb underneath her car outside her Lurgan home in March 1999.

Retired judge Sir Michael Morland is chairing a three-strong panel examining alleged security force collusion. It will hear evidence next spring.

One of the Nelson family's solicitors, Barra McGrory, said it had been "a long road" for the family.

"We will give it every cooperation, and we sincerely hope that it will succeed in its clear and stated intention to get to the truth of the full circumstances of Rosemary's murder - we certainly wish it well," he said.

Sir Michael made an opening statement to the inquiry outlining how it would be conducted.

Sir Michael and his colleagues - ex-chief constable of South Wales Sir Anthony Burden and Dame Valerie Strachan, former chair of the board of Customs and Excise - will examine allegations that police ignored death threats against Mrs Nelson.

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WHO WAS ROSEMARY NELSON?

-A Catholic solicitor who came to prominence representing high profile cases
-These included working for the nationalist Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition in the dispute with Orangemen over Drumcree
-The 40-year-old mother-of-three was killed in a booby-trap car bomb near her home on 15 March 1999
-A splinter loyalist group, the Red Hand Defenders, said it carried out the murder


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