IRA Dissidents Arrested Over Londonderry Car Bomb

DUBLIN — Northern Ireland police say they have arrested three suspected Irish Republican Army dissidents over a suspected car bomb in Londonderry.

British Army engineers are examining Monday's potential bomb at a road junction on the city's outskirts. The alert has caused traffic jams along Northern Ireland's border with the Irish Republic.

The three men aged 46, 49 and 56 are being questioned at the main police interrogation center near Belfast.

Police reported a second suspected bomb in the border town of Newry. It was found on a road running underneath the main Belfast-Dublin highway and near the town's train station.

Several IRA splinter groups seek to force Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom. They reject the IRA's 2005 decisions to disarm and renounce violence.

Comments

[Moxo]

09:46 PM on 09/26/2011

Since when do we call terrorists who plant a car bomb "dissidents"?

Or are they "dissidents" because they are non-Muslim and look just like your average white guy from Boston?

[KIVPossum]

09:54 PM on 09/26/2011

Yeah...seems they never use the word terrorist unless it there is a Muslim involved.

[NotBetterThanYou]

11:34 PM on 09/26/2011

Maybe they are only labelled "dissidents" because many in the USA actually think they are in the right. Just like the Mujahadeen were "anti-Soviet freedom fighters", the IRA have traditionally been viewed as legitimate dissidents by their American suppporters. British supporters did the same for the UDA.

You are absolutely right, however. We need to see these organisations for what they really are. The IRA and the UDA (and their various splinters) are just hate groups that harbour sociopaths and career criminals. They cynically use a struggle they don't believe in to further their own violent and selfish ends, and care little for the people they claim to represent.

St Patrick needs to come back and drive out all these new snakes.

[Seaniebhoy]

08:41 AM on 09/27/2011

No, they are labelled dissadents because the mainstream became involved in politics.

[czs5056]

08:09 PM on 09/26/2011

I look forward to the day when these irish stop trying to attack the queen.

[Moxo]

09:47 PM on 09/26/2011

I look forward to the day we call them "terrorists" and not "dissidents".

[RobertFromMN]

04:11 AM on 09/27/2011

I look forward to the day that people know what they're talking about before they comment.

[Seaniebhoy]

08:42 AM on 09/27/2011

They are only called disadents becasue the mainstream became involved in politics; also it is easier for the media to call it dissadent IRA instead of referring tot hem as a seperate group.

[RobertFromMN]

04:10 AM on 09/27/2011

Which queen have they attacked? The English queen? When was that?

[czs5056]

09:11 AM on 09/27/2011

the queen as in her realm, her cities, and her army