Paisley: "No transparent verification"

Democratic Unionist Party leader Rev Ian Paisley has said there was no transparent verification of IRA decommissioning in today's announcement. He said today's announcement showed the duplicity and dishonesty of the two governments and the IRA. Mr Paisley said the "Not one iota was given to verify that assurance," he said. He dismissed the independent witnesses, saying they were approved by the IRA and therefore were accepted by the IRA and in no way could be independent.