The Troubles Returning To Northern Ireland?

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Northern Ireland: IRA Dissidents' Car Bomb Defused -- International Herald Tribune

DUBLIN, Ireland: British Army experts defused a 300-pound (150-kg) car bomb Saturday that Irish Republican Army dissidents had abandoned four days earlier in a Northern Ireland village.

Police who found the car bomb parked near a Catholic elementary school in the village of Castlewellan, south of Belfast, initially feared the dissidents might have planted other booby-trap bombs in the area. But after no other devices were found, army engineers used a remote-controlled robot to dismantle the bomb.

IRA dissidents telephoned in at least two warnings describing the bomb's approximate location — raising police fears they were being lured into an ambush, a past IRA ploy. But the dissidents said in a later statement they abandoned the car bomb short of their intended target, a major army base in nearby Ballykinlar, after encountering heavier-than-expected British security near the installation.

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