Carol,
‘thirty years on I hardly think about the IRA anymore’
Maybe you should.
These are only a fraction of the attacks by the Real I.R.A and the Continuity I.R.A in the last six months.
A car bomb has been exploded outside Newtownhamilton police station, injuring two people.
A car bomb also has been defused outside Newtownhamilton police station in south Armagh on Tuesday 13 April.
A bomb in a hijacked taxi explodes outside Palace Barracks in Holywood on Monday 12 April – the day policing and justice powers are transferred to Northern Ireland.
On 12 April, the Real IRA leaves a no-warning car bomb outside MI5′s Northern Ireland headquarters at Palace Barracks in Holywood, County Down.
Dissident republicans were also blamed for leaving a car containing a 400lb bomb outside the Policing Board’s headquarters in Belfast.
600lb bomb left near the Irish border in south Armagh was intended to kill its officers
Real IRA claimed responsibility for placing two explosive devices near the homes of a policeman’s relatives.
March 2009,
Two young soldiers were shot dead as they collected pizzas outside Massereene Barracks in County Antrim.
Sappers Patrick Azimkar and Mark Quinsey were killed just hours before they were due to be deployed to Afghanistan.
Within 48 hours a policeman, Stephen Carroll, was shot dead in Craigavon.
He was the first police officer to be murdered in Northern Ireland since 1998.
Our security services have reported these terrorists are a bigger threat then Islamic groups.
Other Americans are still thinking about the I.R.A.
In 2008, Peter King spoke in defense of bail for a fugitive IRA member, convicted terrorist Pól Brennan, who had escaped from prison in the UK .
“My experience dealing with (Irish) republicans is that they don’t jump bail in THIS country. They honor their commitments.”
‘ to young, extremely unreceptive students in England.’
Maybe they were unreceptive because the speech being given was mis informed
and inaccurate.
If it was muslims doing this then i am sure people including you would know about it.
