IRA Car Bomb Targets Belfast's Top Shopping Mall
Source: Associated Press
BELFAST, Northern Ireland November 25, 2013 (AP)
A suspected Irish Republican Army car bomb targeting Belfast's biggest shopping center has failed to detonate. But police say the driver ordered to deliver the bomb was been traumatized, and security in the Northern Ireland capital is being increased in the run-up to Christmas.
Police evacuated a cinema, restaurants and apartments connected to the Victoria Square complex after the car containing about 130 pounds (60 kilograms) of homemade explosive was abandoned Sunday night at the entrance to the shopping center's underground parking lot. The alert snarled rush-hour traffic Monday.
Police say the bomb's detonator was triggered before British Army experts could dismantle the device, but explosives packed inside a barrel failed to detonate.
No group claimed responsibility, but police and politicians blamed IRA extremists opposed to the group's 1997 cease-fire.
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warrior1
(12,325 posts)when will this violence stop
Archae
(46,326 posts)Even then, whatever animal becomes intelligent will take up the "cause," killing for their deity.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)My wife walked past the Harrods bomb in 1983 about 20 minutes before it detonated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrods_bombing
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Nihil
(13,508 posts)... of saying "Scared shitless because of his near-death experience".
(The IRA - like many other terrorist groups - like to kidnap innocent civilians
and hold their families hostage while the poor bastard concerned has to drive
the bomb to the destination.)
tblue
(16,350 posts)I am nonviolent, but these things don't happen for no reason. Give Ireland back to the Irish!
iandhr
(6,852 posts)mulsh
(2,959 posts)n/t