why did it turn out this way?
there was once peace and love,
now is the time for change
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March 2009
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31st March 2009: IRA dissidents burn cars, block Belfast roads
Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 2:26 AM
In Dublin, suspected IRA and their supporters hijacked cars on Monday in the Catholic areas of Northern Ireland in an attempt to block roads and threaten police stations.The Police Service of Northern Ireland said that it was receiving a wave of reports of vehicles being hijacked by masked gunmen in several parts of Belfast. Some vehicles were being set on fire in roads to disrupt traffic at the rush hour, while others were abandoned near 4 Belfast police stations and on Northern Ireland's major motorway near Lurgan. Police stated that they were treating all the abandoned vehicles as potential car bombs, even though this was most unlikely. They urged motorists to avoid Kilwilkie and parts of Catholic west Belfast entirely. One of the hijacked cars was abandoned on the M1 motorway, which connects Belfast to Dublin. Authorities shut part ir the motorway as a precaution. One abandoned vehicle- which police said did not contain a bomb- was left near the Stormont Parliamentary Building, the center of Northern Ireland's power-sharing government between the British Protestant majority and Irish Catholic minority. "The criminal terrorists responsible for the series of bomb scares and hijackings are beneath contempt and have no support whatsoever in the community," Robinson said. The hijackings and security alerts also coincided with a widespread breakdown of Belfast's traffic lights system. Police in a statement called that an "unfortunate coincidence". credit: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jNzlO_HDT9z2VIAjQtX2evl4EFUQD978HLGO0 |