IRA has completed disarmament: de Chastelain

The head of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning has said that he is satisfied that the IRA has completed its disarmament. General de Chastelain said the decommissioning body had reported to the Irish and British governments that it had observed and verified events to put beyond use all of the arms in the IRA's possession. He said the arms decommissioned included ammunition, rifles, machine guns, mortars, missiles, handguns, explosives and explosive substances.