31.   It was also at odds with the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, the mostly Roman Catholic Sinn Fein, which wants closer links with Dublin.

32.   Marzook, who now lives in Syria, has insisted that the Hamas political wing does not sponsor the violence by its military wing.

33.   McCartney has threatened to walk out if members of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, take up executive positions.

34.   Major made it clear that Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, would be expected to participate in the election.

35.   Mehmet Balci, a Rome-based spokesman for the political wing, said refugees were fleeing their home region because of brutal practices by the Turkish Army.

36.   Minutes before Mandelson spoke, Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA, made a surprise announcement of his own.

37.   Mousa Abu Marzook, head of the political wing of Hamas, a Palestinian organization suspected of directing suicide bombings in Israel.

38.   Mo Mowlam, the minister for Northern Ireland, will rule this week on whether the IRA or its political wing, Sinn Fein, broke the accord.

39.   Oddly enough, the political wings of the Unionist terrorist groups, unlike the main Unionist political hacks, are willing to negotiate.

40.   Officials of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA, said that the release was timed to pander for votes in the Tuesday leadership election.