2 British soldiers killed in N. Ireland gun ambush
source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090308/ap_on_re_eu/eu_northern_ireland
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Saturday night's attack at the entrance to Massereene army barracks in Antrim, west of Belfast, was the first killing of British troops in Northern Ireland since 1997. Its callousness, in targeting soldiers and civilians alike, appeared calculated to inflame community tensions and undermine Northern Ireland's Catholic-Protestant administration.
"The whole country is shocked and outraged at the evil and cowardly attack," British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in London. "I assure you that we will bring these murderers to justice. No murderer will be able to derail a peace process that has the support of the people of Northern Ireland."
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jinners
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It is not suspected that this was the I.R.A but a group of dissident republicans who do not want the peace process to continue in the North. Martin Mc Guinness (long considered a former I.R.A commander and is now Chief of Staff of the IRA under Parliamentary privilege) has condemned these attacks describing the dissident republicans as “traitors to the island of Ireland”.
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jinners
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The real IRA appear to be taking responsibility.
The real IRA is essentially just organised crime masquerading as some sort of political freedom fighters.
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csmonut
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I thought the violence of the IRA was long gone and the few remaining voilent memebers had either been arrested or had given up.
Guess that's what I get for thinking.
This would not keep me from visiting though. Violence in some US cities are equal to, if not worse than this. - 3 years ago
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