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Britain
Bomb defused at supermarket
2005-03-31
"Faith, Pat! What kind o' symbol of oppression can we boom next?"
"How about a grocery store, Mike?"
"Good idea! Can we machinegun the survivors, too?"
Army bomb experts defused a firebomb at a Northern Ireland shopping centre on Wednesday in what appeared to be the latest incident in an arson campaign by Irish Republican Army dissidents. The firebomb, described by police as a "viable incendiary device", was found at a supermarket in Newtownards, 10 miles east of Belfast. It was the fifth such device planted at stores in the British-ruled province in recent days. Last month Northern Ireland's police chief Hugh Orde blamed the Real IRA, a so-called dissident republican group, for 20 firebomb attacks on shops and business premises since November. The small splinter group opposes the ceasefire called in 1997 by the mainstream IRA in its campaign against British rule. The Real IRA carried out the 1998 Omagh bombing which killed 29 people, but has been unable to mount a sustained campaign.
Posted by:Fred

#4  Duh... took me a second, Spembles are notorious dry wits.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-03-31 4:40:46 PM  

#3  Attention, clean up to isle 7,firebomb.
Posted by: Spemble Hupains4886   2005-03-31 3:59:20 PM  

#2  Thugs and fuckwits is all the IRA/Sin Fien can produce . They lost and cant deal with it , boo-fucking-ho. Someone feed these peices of shit into the grinder and let everyone else move on .
Posted by: MacNails   2005-03-31 11:40:51 AM  

#1  We've barricades and gelignite
And gunmen walk the street
We've CS gas imported for the hungry kids to eat
Our town's an old sand castle now
And the waves begin to pound
And I tell you, John, I've oft times longed
to leave old Belfast town.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2005-03-31 11:15:37 AM  

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