The
BBC has an article about
Sinn Féin:
Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams (photo, top) has been arrested by Northern Ireland police in connection with the 1972 murder of Jean McConville (photo, bottom left).
McConville, a 37-year-old widow and mother of ten, was abducted from her flat in the Divis area of west Belfast and shot by the IRA. Her body was recovered from a beach in County Louth in 2003.
Speaking before his arrest on Wednesday, Adams said he was "innocent of any part" in the murder.
Police said a 65-year-old man presented himself to Antrim police station and was arrested.
In a statement, Sinn Féin said: "Last month Gerry Adams said he was available to meet the PSNI about the Jean McConville case. That meeting is taking place this evening."
McConville, one of Northern Ireland's Disappeared, was kidnapped in front of her children after being wrongly accused of being an informer.
Last month, Ivor Bell, 77, a leader in the Provisional IRA in the 1970s, was charged with aiding and abetting the murder. There have also been a number of other arrests over the murder recently.
The case against Bell is based on an interview he allegedly gave to researchers at Boston College. The Boston College tapes are a series of candid, confessional interviews with former loyalist and republican paramilitaries, designed to be an oral history of the Troubles.
The paramilitaries were told the tapes would only be made public after their deaths.
However, after a series of court cases in the United States, some of the content has been handed over to the authorities.
The claim that McConville was an informer was dismissed after an official investigation by the Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman.
She was held at one or more houses before being shot and buried in secret.
The Disappeared are those who were abducted, murdered, and secretly buried by Republicans during the Troubles. The IRA admitted in 1999 that it murdered and buried at secret locations nine of the Disappeared.
The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains was established in 1999 by a treaty between the British and Irish governments. It lists sixteen people as "disappeared". Despite extensive searches, the remains of seven of them have not been found.
Rico says the Brits have wanted to bust this guy for a long time, but 1972? That's stretching it...
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