Police Officer Dies In Booby Trap Car Bomb (In Northern Ireland)

[Turborama]

Source: Sky News

A 25-year-old new recruit to the Police Service of Northern Ireland has died after being caught up in a booby-trap car bomb.

The device exploded under the vehicle outside the Catholic officer's home in Omagh, Co Tyrone, just before 4pm.

Sky's Northern Ireland correspondent Vicki Hawthorne said: "Police have confirmed that some kind of device exploded underneath the car.

"They say the vehicle belonged to a new recruit of the Police Service of Northern Ireland and that he was a Catholic officer."

Read more: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Northern-Ireland-Police-Say-They-Are-Responding-To-Reports-Of-A-Car-Bomb/Article/201104115964819?lpos=UK_News_Top_Stories_Header_2&lid=ARTICLE_15964819_Northern_Ireland_Police_Say_They_Are_Responding_To_Report

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The article later mentions there's a likelihood that fingers will be pointed at Catholic extremists who are trying to "discourage young Catholics from joining the police service".

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. Police officer injured after car bomb detonates in Omagh (Ireland)

Source: Daily Mail

A police officer is understood to have been caught up in a booby trap car bomb in Northern Ireland.

The device exploded under the vehicle outside his home in Highfield Close, off the Gortin Road, in Omagh, Co Tyrone, just before 4pm today.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland was unable to immediately confirm if there were any casualties.

The blast comes 13 years after 29 people were killed and 220 injured after the Real IRA planted a car bomb in central Omagh.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372698/Police-officer-injured-car-bomb-detonates-Omagh.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

[sharp_stick]

2. Are there any more

incompetent bomb builders than the IRA or whatever the fuck acronym they go by this week?

[Turborama]

3. Al Jazeera English: N. Ireland Car bomb targets police

Northern Ireland police say a bomb has exploded under a car in the town of Omagh.

The AFP news agency reports that a policeman was killed in the attack on Saturday when the bomb went off in a car parked at his house.

Since 2007, Irish Republican Army dissidents have planted dozens of booby-trap bombs under the private cars of police officers.

The bombs usually fail to detonate and have killed nobody. But two policemen have lost their legs in attacks in May 2008 and January 2010.

Full article: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/04/20114217356125325.html

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. Police officer injured after car bomb detonates in Omagh (Ireland)

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[customerserviceguy]

5. I thought Northern Ireland was pretty much over this shit

Does it occur to anyone in the UK that this was a terrorist incident of another type, rather than Catholic-Protestant tensions?

[CountAllVotes]

6. it has been going on for 800 years now

and no, sadly I will not see it change in my lifetime.


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[Selatius]

9. Religious hatreds do not die so easily. The history of Europe seems to bear this out. nt

[customerserviceguy]

11. It does take a long time for religious hatreds to die

But as the UK and France are no longer at war with each other, there is hope for the rest of Europe when it comes to this. I had that hope for Northern Ireland.

I'm still not convinced that this was not islamic religious hate for christian people. That seems to be the chief source of religious tension in Europe these days.

[Stella_Artois]

7. Utterly futile

Murdering policemen does not advance their cause in the slightest.

[Arrowhead2k1]

8. Damn Musli...

Oh wait. Nevermind...

[Turborama]

10. Yep.

I know exactly where you're coming from and agree.