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Spy case puts Ulster regime at risk©Associated PressOctober 9, 2002 BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Sinn Fein must be kicked out of Northern Ireland's administration within a week or Protestants will scuttle the entire Protestant-Catholic power-sharing government, First Minister David Trimble warned Britain on Tuesday. Trimble said his Ulster Unionist Party would withdraw if Britain didn't formally recommend that Sinn Fein, the party linked to the Irish Republican Army, be expelled because of alleged IRA spying. British Prime Minister Tony Blair scheduled talks starting today with Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, Sinn Fein and the larger moderate Catholic party in the coalition, the Social Democratic and Labor Party. Protestants moved to force Sinn Fein from office after police raided the homes and offices of party activists Friday and allegedly seized stacks of pilfered British documents provided by a sympathetic civil servant. Among the documents, police said, were details of potential IRA targets, ranging from the top British army general in Northern Ireland to rank-and-file prison officers. The person accused of smuggling the bulk of the documents, William Mackessy, 44, was arraigned Tuesday on two charges of possessing information likely to be of use to the IRA. He joined two Sinn Fein members behind bars.
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