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Associated Press
"Security Raised at N.Ireland Assembly"
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK 11.27.06, 11:23 PM ET

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Politicians faced extra security Monday at the Northern Ireland Assembly as they debated their failure to forge a Catholic-Protestant administration - an argument dramatically interrupted last week by a Protestant extremist with a bag full of nail bombs.

Security guards patrolled the manicured lawns of the Stormont government estate and two armed police officers flanked the entrance of Stormont Parliamentary Building, which convicted killer Michael Stone breached on Friday carrying a range of weapons. Two unarmed guards wrestled Stone, 51, to the ground as others evacuated politicians, journalists and civil servants from the building.

On Monday, both sides' politicians lauded the bravery of the guards who trapped Stone in a revolving door. British army experts dismantled at least six homemade nail bombs inside a bag Stone had been carrying.

"The devices that were defused may have been crude in nature, but were no less life-threatening for that," said Eileen Bell, speaker of the 108-member assembly, which wields the power to elect or block a Catholic-Protestant administration."