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By Hasan Suroor
LONDON, NOV. 27. In a surprise intervention, the U.S. President, George W. Bush, has offered to help resolve the political deadlock in Northern Ireland where self-rule has been suspended for over two years following allegations of spying against the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the Unionists' insistence that the IRA destroy all its weapons as a precondition for the provincial Assembly to be restored. Mr. Bush spoke to Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein, which is the political wing of the IRA, and to Ian Paisley, leader of the hardliner Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) on Friday as the British and Irish Governments stepped up pressure on the two sides to come to an agreement. "I am trying to be a part of the process of getting both Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams to the table to get a deal done — in other words, to close the agreement they have been working on for sometime,'' Mr. Bush was reported as saying. He hoped that his intervention would help. "Anything I can do to help, I am willing to do,'' he said in what was seen as a throwback to the former President, Bill Clinton's role in brokering the Good Friday Agreement. Mr. Paisley regards the IRA as a `terrorist' organisation and says his party would not share power with Sinn Fein so long as it is linked to a `terrorist' organisation.
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