Hardly anything in the National press or on 24 hour news about the latest bomb scare in the UK. A pipe bomb was found, and described as viable. POLICE have confirmed that a "viable pipe bomb" was left close to the scene of a Remembrance Sunday parade in Omagh, Northern Ireland, which could have been killed dozens attending a wreath-laying ceremony. Police carried out three controlled explosions after a suspicious object was found near the cenotaph in Omagh, Northern Ireland. But they are still not near done with their investigations and are searching the area with a fine-toothed comb after the threat emerged this morning. Several hundred people were expected to attend the Remembrance Sunday parade in the centre of Omagh today. However police were forced to set up a cordon around the area after a suspicious object was discovered in the early hours of this morning. The parade was initially suspended so investigations could be carried out but has continued on a different route. It has now been confirmed by police that the device discovered at the scene was a "viable pipe bomb". Chief Constable George Hamilton said: "This small but potentially dangerous device was left to cause the maximum amount of disruption to the Remembrance Sunday commemorations. This is the action of a small and callous group of violent people who have nothing to offer our communities other than fear and intimidation. http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/878550/Omagh-bomb-threat-Remembrance-Sunday-parade-suspended Hopefully these murderous scum will be caught and brought to justice, but it is reminder for us in the UK of the years of terrorism we faced. We can only guess why this has hardly been reported.
first of all, the occupation of the northern counties will never be legitimate and ireland should be a united 32 county republic, so jot that down
Well that is now there choice. It'd be a good idea however to check how much Eire wants this. When Scotland was possibly going for Independence they were getting their knickers in a twist about the possibility rUK would not find them worth keeping. Does happen fairly regularly. Obviously leaving the EU is putting more pressure on this.
Yes, still the biggest source of terror threats in the UK are dissident Republicans, it seams strange then that only you and I are interested Alexa. Maybe if I had put Muslim bomb scare it would of got a greater reaction!
Indeed. Had it been a suspect Islam terror attack we would have had 24 hour coverage. It reminded me that with NI, intelligence was to keep as quiet about things as possible both so as not to encourage negative feelings towards the Irish and so as not to encourage copy cats. I haven't been following NI much recently but seems they have still not got their government sorted out, that there is no possibility of a coalition and that they may be looking at going back to direct rule. I will try and keep a better eye on it but it begs the question what a 'no deal' would result in there. But as to recent terror activity in NI, this is last year
This is yesterday https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...-to-transferring-power-london-regional-budget I would think when considering NI we need to remember that the Tories are being held in power by a deal with the DUP.
It is troubling times, one of the unmentioned results of brexit is what effect it will have on the peace agreement. I cannot see how you can have a soft boarder and satisfy the aims of leaving the EU, whilst a hard boarder will not satisfy the terms of the peace treaty. And of course the Tories are in bed with the DUP as you have shown. People who think the NI issue is settled appear unaware of the fragility of the peace and just how volatile the situation still is.
The DUP wanted Brexit because it believed that the EU encouraged Scotland to go for Independence and Northern Ireland for Unity but yes as soon as the Brexit Referendum got a small majority people realised that Northern Ireland had serious problems with this and indeed there was a call then for Unity, it being believed the UK could lose both Scotland and NI through Brexit Well to be honest they have forgotten anything about conflict resolution. Nowadays it is just an ever more lethal hand on such people . They do a massive attack, destroying infrastructure and killing thousands of civilians and expect rebels to say . OK I give up. When they do not they just give an even worse attack annihilating even more people. The idea of finding out what the problem is and sorting it just is not there. It is simply the rule of the gun. Alistair Crooke noticed from the changes in Britain and the EU's position on Palestine how the West was throwing away all the lessons learnt from Northern Ireland on conflict resolution and just allowing might is right, basically the way things are run everywhere nowadays. However with Northern Ireland, too near home, too many people on the mainland with roots there, it would still be unlikely for them to be dehumanised as most others are.
Now that the great and the good have declared terrorism over in Northern Ireland, solved by their own brilliance... there is none. Obviously.
