Police have escaped a second gun attack in Belfast 2 days

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Police escape injury in gun attack

Police in Belfast have escaped injury after a gun attack on a patrol in the west of the city on Friday evening.

The Land Rover the officers were travelling in was hit twice as it travelled along the Suffolk Road at around 11.45 pm.

It's the second time in the past week police have come under attack.

On Thursday, officers were shot at in the north of the city while policing a loyalist protest.

Following the attack senior officers said it was fortunate no one was injured or killed in the attack.

http://www.u.tv/News/Police-escape-i...3-bbdd4f178eb2

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

what's the skinny in relation to northern ireland at the minute? i figured that in recent years, most of these attacks were done by very small cells. could there be a possibility of a resurgence or is this more or the same?

[tallguy]

what's the skinny in relation to northern ireland at the minute? i figured that in recent years, most of these attacks were done by very small cells. could there be a possibility of a resurgence or is this more or the same?It's a re-boot of the old fight by people who were only temporarily bought off with the promise of jam that accompanied the boom years. The old enmities never really went way, they just went to sleep. For them to have gone away, Ireland would have needed economic prosperity to have lasted for at least a generation or two, so that a whole generation would grow up with no physical connection to those who had fought previously. That didn't happen and so the old shit is going to kick off again, I reckon.

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Dissident republicans blamed for 'reckless' shooting

Henry McDonald Ireland correspondent
theguardian.com, Saturday 7 December 2013 13.23 GMT

The Police Service of Northern Ireland has come under attack twice in the last 24 hours. Photograph: Paul Faith/PA
Police in Belfast have come under gun attack for a second time in 24 hours.

Dissident republicans are being blamed for the shooting in which two bullets struck a police armoured vehicle on the Suffolk Road in west Belfast around 11.45pm last night.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland confirmed today that none of their officers were injured in the incident.

Condemning those behind the shooting, District Commander Chief Superindentant George Clarke condemned those behind the attack.

"For the second night in a row, dedicated community police officers have found themselves under attack from terrorists," he said.

"It is by luck and not design that we are not dealing with fatalities this morning and those responsible are to be utterly condemned for their evil and reckless actions.

"These officers go out each day to serve this community and they should be free to do so without the threat of attack."

Local SDLP Assemblyman for West Belfast Alex Attwood said there was now a "worrying trend" in the city with two attempts to murder police officers in 24 hours.

"Those engaged in this type of reckless violence are not advancing any political ideal, they are hurting the community they claim to represent," he said.

On Thursday night the republican terror group Oghlaigh na hEireann fired up to 10 shots at police vehicles guarding a loyalist protest in north Belfast.

Winston Irvine, a representative of the Progressive Unionist Party, which is linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force, accused the dissidents of attempting to antagonise the unionist community as well as seeking to murder police officers.

"This was an attack on the whole community. This is absolutely an upping of the ante by republicans.

Irvine has appealed to loyalist paramilitaries not to be drawn into retaliation in response to increasing republican dissident terror attacks across Northern Ireland in recent weeks.

Sinn Féin North Belfast Assembly man and Stormont minister Gerry Kelly described the gun attack as "reckless".

He added: "Those behind this attack are serving their own narrow agenda and are in no way representative of this community."

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...lice-attacked?

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what's the skinny in relation to northern ireland at the minute? i figured that in recent years, most of these attacks were done by very small cells. could there be a possibility of a resurgence or is this more or the same?

The armed groups have been trying to kick start an armed campaign for the last four years. The attacks by the armed groups do be on and off. There would be some attacks for a few month's then it would die down for another few months. Both states have been coming down heavy on the armed groups. There has been loads of arrests and there are just a little over a hundred men and women in jail in the free state and in the occupied six counties jails and there are a good few more out on bail. There has also been loads of weapons sized in raids. Yeah it looks as if most of the attacks are pulled off by small cells. I would say most of the people that have been arrested and put in jail were arrested on their way to pull off attacks, so the cops do jail 3 and 4 volunteers each time.

Do I think there could be a resurgence or more of the same? Its hard to tell just when it looks about to kick off the 2 states come down really heavy. I wouldn't rule out a resurgence , there has been a few attacks over the last couple of months and not very many volunteers have been caught and jailed.

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DUP Leads Assembly Debate on Weekend Shootings...
09 December 2013

DUP MLA Nelson McCausland has led a Matter of the Day debate today in the Assembly on the attempts by dissident republicans to murder police officers in recent days

Speaking afterwards Mr McCausland said, ‘On Thursday night a republican gunman from Ardoyne opened fire on police officers travelling up the Crumlin Road. The terrorists were able to construct a firing platform within Ardoyne and ten shots were fired. This was attempted murder which also placed passers-by in danger.

The following night several shots were fired on officers on the Suffolk Road in West Belfast. The murder or attempted murder of police officers is always wrong.

It was wrong in the past when the Provisonal IRA attacked the RUC and it is wrong today when dissidents attack the PSNI.

There is also a grotesque irony about the Crumlin Road attack that it was carried out outside the grounds of Holy Cross church. It is a disgraceful mindset which can protest about music in this area but then carry out murderous attempts in the same area.

We can speculate about the reasons for the increased level of terrorist activity and there may even be competition between various terrorist groups. However, those who carry out such acts must be identified, placed before the courts, convicted and placed behind bars.'

http://www.mydup.com/news/article/du...end-shootings?

[Sea]

The murder or attempted murder of police officers is always wrong.

It was wrong in the past when the Provisonal IRA attacked the RUC and it is wrong today when dissidents attack the PSNI.Oh boo fucking hoo.

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Personally I think the next few years will be very crucial. Especially with the different anniversaries coming up, a big one being the centenary of the Easter Uprising in 2016.

I also think the "dissidents" are made up of different factions including members of the Provisionals who agreed to peace but are not happy at the current situation in the occupied counties. For one the PSNI are supposed to be unbiased but to be honest they are just the RUC under a different guise!

There will always be the threat of serious violence on the streets though while there is a British hold on the North. As the saying goes "Ireland unfree will never be at peace"




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