Rep Peter King defends his past support of the IRA as he readies his anti-Muslim hearings
Politics • March 2011 • Views: 594
Rep. Peter King, who will hold hearings this week on Islamic radicalism, is defending his support in the 1980s and 1990s of the Irish Republican Army’s political wing.
The New York Republican says the IRA and al-Qaida are very different — the IRA was a narrowly focused homegrown movement while al-Qaida has attacked the U.S. and other countries. King said in an interview Tuesday he was right to advocate that the IRA be brought into peace negotiations to stop the violence