Thursday, March 23, 2017

The World In Armed Chaos

Are 'the Troubles" starting anew in Northern Ireland?
The Police Service of Northern Ireland said a device exploded while police were on patrol in the Townsend Street area of Strabane shortly after 8:30pm on March 21.

It said the blast was an attempt to kill police officers.

Chief Inspector Ivor Morton said it was “incredible” that no-one had been killed, the Irish News reported.

“It was a deliberate targeted attack on police officers,” he said.

Detectives said it was too early to attribute blame, the Belfast Newsletter reported, but investigations are likely to focus on dissident Irish republicans opposed to the peace process.

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On February 27, the Irish republican paramilitary group known as the New IRA claimed responsibility for a bomb that exploded in the driveway of a PSNI officer’s home on February 23 after falling from his vehicle the previous day.

  Grasswire

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