article_snippet: Gerry Adams has been named by an influential American magazine as a former IRA commander who personally passed ‘death sentences’ on an influential American magazine enemies.
article_snippet: Gerry Adams, 64, has long denied belonging to the terror group.
article_snippet: New Yorker magazine has accused Gerry Adams, pictured, of being a former IRA commander .
article_snippet: New Yorker magazine claims that Gerry Adams issued the order to ‘disappear’ mother-of-ten Jean McConville who was dragged screaming from her Belfast home by a masked gang in 1972 after her was suspected of being a British Army informer.
article_snippet: Last year Gerry Adams was arrested by police investigating Mrs McConville’s murder.
article_snippet: Gerry Adams has always denied any involvement and was released without charge.
article_snippet: The article names Gerry Adams as having been a senior member of the IRA and the military commander responsible for the Belfast Brigade.
article_snippet: None of the claims is new but None of the claims collation by New Yorker magazine in a devastating essay entitled ‘Where the bodies are buried’ with another headline saying Gerry Adams ‘authorised murder’ – is seen as a sign that the Sinn Fein president can no longer regard the Sinn Fein president as the ‘acceptable face’ of Irish Republicanism in America.
article_snippet: New Yorker magazine claimed that Gerry Adams, pictured, joined the IRA in the 1960s and passed 'death sentences' Patrick Radden Keefe, the author of the New Yorker essay, wrote: ‘It is believed that Gerry Adams joined [the IRA] as a teenager, in the mid-Sixties.
article_snippet: Several former IRA volunteers confirmed to me that Gerry Adams was a member of the group.
article_snippet: He said Gerry Adams had presided over a meeting of IRA bombers in Belfast to plot the 1973 bombing campaign in London.
article_snippet: The article also said Gerry Adams dispatched an IRA member to New York to procure Armalite assault rifles for use against the British Army, having Armalite assault rifles smuggled back aboard the QEII ocean liner.
highlights_snippet: The Sinn Fein leader has long denied being a former IRA member .
  
highlights_snippet: New Yorker magazine said Gerry Adams issued the order to 'disappear' a mother of ten .
  
highlights_snippet: They also allege The Sinn Fein leader was at a planning meeting for a London terror strike .