But recent violence in Port Harcourt has involved "former gunmen," and MEND is already accusing the Nigerian Army of truce violations and threatening "appropriate retaliatory actions".
Building on Shaky Trust There is one overriding issue when it comes to the Awakening Councils, the groups of mainly Sunni former gunmen who were hired by the Americans to stop attacking them: Will they return to violence?
The PSNI said the weapon and bullets used to shoot the 47-year-old former IRA gunman were of east European origin.
Gerry Adams has denied claims that the IRA is still active and was involved in the murder of a former IRA gunman, the latest twist in a fierce dispute that has engulfed Northern Irish politics.
As improbable as "Mona Lisa" may now seem to Mr. Jordan — a story about the unrequited love of a chunky, balding ex-con for a soft-spoken call girl — it pales in comparison to "The Crying Game" (1992), in which a former I.R.A. gunman develops a bit of a thing for the, let's say, sexually ambiguous lover of one of the organization's victims.
One thing is certain so far though; it would be the richest irony of all if the death of a former IRA gunman who killed to destroy the state of Northern Ireland ends up with unionists abandoning a political arrangement that has secured the union for the foreseeable future.
More than 40 former NI gunmen and bombers gave interviews to the college.
After killing five people and wounding a friend of his former wife, the gunman, identified as Carey H. Dyess, 73, of the farming community of Wellton, killed himself, the authorities said.
Mr. Sampson, a former Greek Cypriot gunman linked to the killing of 20 British servicemen, adopted his surname probably as a disguise when he belonged to the E.O.K.A. guerrilla movement that fought against British rule and for union with Greece.
Luca Odevaine, a senior local authority official, is accused of being a pivotal figure in a web of corrupt links between the Rome council and an organised crime syndicate headed by a former neo-fascist gunman.
