Posted on 04/11/2010 5:59:11 PM PDT by rdl6989
Police say a car bomb has exploded outside a British Army barracks in Northern Ireland.
The blast was behind Palace Barracks in Holywood, Belfast, at 12.24am and is described as "ongoing".
Reporting from the scene, Sky's Ireland correspondent Vicky Hawthorne said: "Police are not confirming this but there are unconfirmed reports of some injuries on the ground.
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Thank you Manc.
UPDATE:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iYNNGX8vebjGnghuxfnl99YqgZgwD9F180200
“Bomb rattles British spy HQ in Northern Ireland”
(AP) – 45 minutes ago
SNIPPET: “DUBLIN — Police say Irish Republican Army dissidents have detonated a bomb near the British spy headquarters in Northern Ireland hours before rival Catholic and Protestant leaders elect a new justice minister.”
“BREAKING NEWS: ‘Dissident Republican bomb’ rocks Belfast barracks on day power transferred from London”
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 2:21 AM on 12th April 2010
SNIPPET: “A suspected dissident Republican car bomb exploded outside a British Army barracks in Northern Ireland today less than half an hour after law and order powers were officially transferred from London to Belfast.”
Wow, count me as one of those people who thought “The Troubles” were pretty much over. I guess I should clarify what I said to mean “I actually thought the worst of ‘The Troubles’ were over”.
From what little I had read, I think even the Real IRA had pretty much hung it up.
I guess not.
ADDING to post no. 11:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article7095068.ece
From Times Online
April 12, 2010
“Car bomb explodes near MI5 in Belfast”
David Sharrock in Belfast
SNIPPET: “Republican terrorist splinter groups were suspected of causing the explosion, which according to first reports caused no injuries.”
SNIPPET: “Police say IRA dissidents held a Belfast taxi driver at gunpoint in his home on Sunday and used his taxi to carry the bomb to the rear of Palace Barracks.
The MI5 building is situated inside Palace Barracks in Holywood, County Down, one of the province’s permanent military bases, and has its own separate and secondary layer of security.
In the last twelve months MI5 has increased the number of officers dedicated to countering Irish terrorism to more than four hundred, according to sources consulted by The Times.
That decision came after the murders of two soldiers and a police officer by two groups calling themselves the Real IRA and the Continuity IRA – both splinter groups of the Provisional IRA, which formally ended its campaign of violence in 2007.”
ON THE INTERNET:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/continuityira/index
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/realira/index
ON THE INTERNET:
www.youtube.com/results?search_type=videos&search_query=continuity+ira&search_sort=video_date_uploaded&suggested_categories=25%2C29&uni=3
www.youtube.com/results?search_type=videos&search_query=real+ira&search_sort=video_date_uploaded&suggested_categories=25%2C29&uni=3
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8614723.stm
Page last updated at 04:50 GMT, Monday, 12 April 2010 05:50 UK
“Car bomb explodes near Northern Ireland army base”
“Locals describe hearing the large explosion”
SNIPPET: “It happened outside Palace Barracks, where MI5 has its Northern Ireland headquarters. A warning was given.”
SNIPPET: “Locals said they heard a large bang just after midnight. One man was taken to hospital.
Between 50 and 60 people were spending the night in a local community centre, said Basil McCrea, an Ulster Unionist member of the Policing Board.”
SNIPPET: “There were two explosions - first the bomb and then the petrol tank, destroying the car and damaging other property.
An elderly man, believed to have been walking near the car at the time of the explosion, was “blown off his feet” and taken to hospital, Mr McCrea said.
“The warning was given and the attack alarms went off, but it is obviously a significant device.”
Asked about who carried out the bombing, Mr McCrea said: “It’s obviously people trying to make a statement about the transfer of policing and justice powers.”
Ireland should be one country because otherwise it can’t function.
If the IRA had actual guts they’d push for some real changes in Ireland instead of taking it out on the obvious figures of authority.Instead they keep ripping into people who have nothing to do with the misery that is Ireland.
You got a country still very much owned/ruled by an elite that believes is has more in common with the English or the Scottish then the Irish.That is the Republic of Ireland.
It is like the Mexicans blowing up American consulates in Mexico;it really isn’t Americans forcing you to live that way.
Ireland is one country, and how well it functions is entirely up to them.
As for being “owned/ruled by an elite that believes is has more in common with the English or the Scottish then the Irish.That is the Republic of Ireland.” Well, you apparently don’t even know about which country you are talking about. The Republic IS the Irish, so perhaps they have a far amount in common with themselves, don’t you think ?
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