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Current Events => Terrorism In the US and Around the World => Topic started by: bijou on March 28, 2011, 06:34:33 AM
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Police have described a device found outside the courthouse in Londonderry as 'substantial' and 'viable.'
The bomb was found in a vehicle abandoned outside Bishop Street courthouse after several controlled explosions were carried out.
Elderly residents from a local fold and choirboys, some as young as seven, in the nearby St Columb's Cathedral were evacuated following a telephone bomb warning on Sunday evening.
The area surrounding the courthouse remains cordoned off and Bishop Street is also closed to traffic.
District Commander, Stephen Martin, said had it exploded, it could have caused death or serious injury. ...
http://www.4ni.co.uk/northern_ireland_news.asp?id=124734
No word yet on which offshoot organisation planted this.
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I'm betting Moose-limbs. Hey, it's the safe bet.
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I'm betting Moose-limbs. Hey, it's the safe bet.
I wouldn't be quite so sure. Muslims don't tend to give warnings, they just do it.
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I'm betting Moose-limbs. Hey, it's the safe bet.
Unlikely, it's more likely to be a home grown Northern Irish group.
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I wouldn't be quite so sure. Muslims don't tend to give warnings, they just do it.
Quite the contrary, Thor. Muslims, IIRC, are required by the Koran to give a warning to those they are going to strike, so as to give them a chance to convert. A bit over two weeks before the September 11th attacks, al Qaida did say that they were going to strike America "in an unprecedented way." I specifically remember hearing that on the last Saturday in August, on a radio news broadcast.
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Unlikely, it's more likely to be a home grown Northern Irish group.
That does seem to be most probable, given the circumstances as described. Still, there are so many possible candidates these days, it's best not to rush to judgement on the origin.
One of the more endearing features of terrorists is that they are usually dying (literally in the case of jihadists) to claim credit for their atrocities, so much so that there are often multiple groups claiming credit for the publicity value. This makes it so much easier to decide who to hunt down and kill.
If they just wanted to kill people without getting notoriety for it, they would all be trying to make it look like some other, possibly-rival group did it, but no, they don't think that way.
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I tend to think muslims are behind this as well.
There has not been an IRA attack in years...certainly not on this scale.
On the muslim side there numbers have been building up to dangerous levels in Brittan. They may have been motivated to send a message-and this is a sure way to send a message. Terrorism is designed to induce terror, it doesn't always have to kill.
Brits are beginning to organize a grass roots resistance to islamic encroachments as the govt isn't doing its job.
I think this message was meant for the people, not the govt.