Posted on 12/19/2014 9:27:17 AM PST by kristinn
A controlled explosion has been carried out on a device found under a soldier's car in Portadown, County Armagh.
It is understood the booby trap bomb was discovered under a serving soldier's vehicle at Corbracky Road.
Upper Bann MP David Simpson said it was his understanding that the Army officer found the device earlier on Friday and that she phoned police.
Bomb disposal officers were called to scene and a number of houses have been evacuated.
The bomb squad carried out a controlled explosion on the device at about 16:45 GMT.
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You mean this is still a thing in Ireland?
You would think the IRA (or whatever pretends like they are these days) would be more concerned with radical Islam than the English.
The IRA...trying to do with bullets what they know they can’t do with ballots.And yes,I’m Irish...and Catholic.
One of my father's late brothers *hated* the British with a fervor that you'd expect to find with a moslem who hates an "infidel".I'd have no problem believing that he gave money to the "Catholic" psychopaths doing the bombing.
Don’t forget that IRA got quite a bit of training from the PLO and other outfits in the Bekaa Valley back in the day.
“The IRA has supported the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) for many years. Some IRA actions committed abroad involved the PLO: in August 1979 a bomb attack in Brussels which injured four members of a British military band and 12 others was carried out in conjunction with the PLO. Again, it was a two-way traffic: Israeli Intelligence knew about IRA arms smuggling from Al-Fatah in exchange for bomb-making techniques with Black September (Al Fatah’s armed wing – responsible for the deaths of Israeli athlete hostages at the 1972 Munich Olympics). These techniques were honed at a training camp near Beirut and at a Syrian-controlled camp in the Bekaa Valley. The IRA also taught them how to pack milk churns with home-made napalm to produce a hail of shrapnel on exploding. The British Army dismantled several IRA napalm milk churn bombs in the 1970s.”
More about crime and territories than about politics. Of course, the difference is barely perceptible.
Under, as in just sitting there? Or under, as in attached to the undercarriage?
This will sound like crazy talk but if I had written this account I would have included whether they blew up the car or were able to move it. Also, if it was blown in place was some kind of shielding placed around it.
Guess I will never make it as a journalism professional.
Thank God they found it before she was killed.
Chickens—ts bomb.
Oh very much so. I have a dear friend is Portstewart and the parades by the different factions from bot sides take place all year long, about some real or imagined outrage from one side of the other.
The two sides generally manage to keep themselves separated and stay in their own neighborhoods, but occasionally there is some mayhem.
Haven't heard about any actual deaths for a few months now.
Would you believe - Orange day this past July 12 was a Saturday. The vigil Masses were CANCELLED.
Priests disappear that day.
A lot of former terrorists have renounced it and joined the peace process. Including most of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (they declared a ceasefire in 1997 and officially joined talks in 1998, and finally disarmed in 2005). But there were other small groups and some of those, and some diehard members of the larger groups, still carry on the violence on a smaller scale.
There are also terrorists on the ‘other side’ - loyalists. Again, most loyalist groups that once engaged in terrorism no longer do and have to at least some extent embraced the idea of peaceful coexistence and change through peaceful means. But not all.
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