Bomb left outside Northern Ireland police station.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/18/bomb-northern-ireland-police-station
Last night a 300lb (300 pound) bomb was left in a van outside a Northern Ireland police station. The police of Aughnacloy was warned by dissident republicans who phoned a Belfast newsroom last night warning that a bomb had been placed in the van. Citizens living near the police station were quickly evacuated and spent the night in three community halls during the security alert. Bomb experts from the army have examined the vehicle and confirmed that there was indeed a bomb in it. If it had gone off it would have caused a lot of damage to buildings and resulted in a considerable number of civilians being killed. There have been several more bomb attacks on police stations and other buildings in recent months.
I was quite surprised by this news item as I thought that things were getting calmer in Northern Ireland. I really need to improve my knowledge about this conflict. Is it still about Catholics versus Protestants or some spin-off? Whatever the reason, the police seems to be well organized, quickly deploying army bomb experts and evacuating those in danger around the van. Bomb attacks are one of the hardest things to tackle, because when they go off, the damage is already done. One question is still on my mind. Were the dissident republicans in the complot or are they working for the police? It seems a strange thing to do to tell the news about the bomb, unless they thought it would go off in a matter of minutes… Beside that, I’m glad no damage was done in this attack.
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This comes as a shock to me too. I thought the Northern Ireland conflict was something of the eighties, but it seems to be quite alive today. I think the boms are a very cowardly way of protesting. The thing is, they actually never intend to hurt anyone with the bombs, since they always send out a warning in beforehand. They simply use them as a way to scare the population. To keep them living in fear all the time. So weird that this happens in such a developed western country.
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