"Experts said Monday's raid on the Northern Bank cash center was the biggest robbery since 1987, when thieves made off with about $65 million in cash and other valuables from the Knightsbridge Safe Deposit Center in west London.
The tactics in Belfast - particularly the use of hostage-taking as a way to infiltrate a high-security target - suggested a level of sophistication and experience most commonly found within Northern Ireland's rival outlawed groups, particularly the Irish Republican Army.
"This isn't a gang of Belfast criminals who just got together. It's more than that. This looks like a military operation with obvious connotations," said John O'Connor, a former commander of Scotland Yard's elite detective unit in London."
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If this was not the work of one of the paramilitary organizations then I am a fine piece of mutton.
The IRA was responsible for most of the well organized heists while I live in Ireland. I just hope that this money is for a retirement fund, not for more operations !
Do I need to go to the slang dictonary to see what it means to be a fine piecs of mutton. I was under the impression that mutton was nasty, so will you be kind enough to translate your Irish into American.
They're not *that* bright, though. Apparently, all the cash is in Northern Ireland pounds, making them far less accepted and much more easily recognisable than your common or garden England/Wales pound - the standard version. So it's all going to be much harder to shift...
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