Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Ian Paisley talks to the media
at DUP headquarters in Belfast during elections to the Northern Ireland
powersharing assembly, November 28, 2003. Britain's worst case scenario
in Northern Ireland's election loomed on Friday as hardline Protestants
opposed to a 1998 peace pact and their arch-foes, Catholics allied to
the IRA, led the count. REUTERS/Peter Macdiarmid

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