1.   He told parliament that all parties, including the Sinn Fein political wing of the Irish Repoublican Army and parties close to loyalist militia, would be invited.

2.   His plea fell on deaf ears but the organisation last August announced a ceasefire which loyalist militia have since joined.

3.   A loyalist militia customarily claims a killing, portraying the victim as either a republican militia member or sympathizer.

4.   A Northern Ireland Protestant loyalist militia claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on a northern Belfast pub early Monday during which no one was hurt.

5.   A truce called by the Protestant loyalist militias at about the same time as that of the IRA is still technically in force.

6.   The Protestant loyalist militia want to see Northern Ireland remain under the British flag while the IRA is fighting for a united Ireland.

7.   The shooting, by loyalist militia, was a reprisal for the Shankill Road bomb.

8.   The talks last Wednesday took place eight months after the IRA declared a ceasefire, later reciprocated by loyalist militias.

9.   The talks will take place eight months after the IRA declared a ceasefire, later reciprocated by loyalist militias.

10.   They said the shootings were probably sectarian and bore the earmarks of loyalist Protestant militias.