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For the 2nd night in a row, Bullets and Petrol Bombs are fired at Northern Irish Police... | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1425103  Ireland06/21/2011 05:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Clashes have erupted again as we speak... Short Strand: Police say riot was 'orchestrated' by UVF Quoting: June 21st 2011 A senior police officer has described shots aimed at officers during rioting in east Belfast on Monday night as "attempted murder". Violence erupted at a sectarian interface on the lower Newtownards Road and Mountpottinger Road around 2100 BST. Chief Superintendent Alan McCrum said the trouble was "orchestrated" by the loyalist paramilitary group, the UVF. Two men are being treated in hospital for gun shot wounds. In all 11 shots were fired - six from the nationalist side and five from loyalists. Two shots hit a police landrover. Police said it was "clearly an attempt to murder police officers". Petrol bombs, fireworks, bricks, stones and smoke bombs were thrown and homes were damaged during the disturbances. Chief Supt McCrum said the trouble started after a group of young men came out of the loyalist Mount and Castlereagh Street areas, and made their way into the Catholic enclave of Short Strand. "That precipitated a response from the community in the Short Strand, and then we were left with two communities, who for the next four hours were seeking to involve themselves in conflict across what was, and continues to be a very challenging interface in the city." [link to www.bbc.co.uk] The youth are getting restless ...  |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1425103 Ireland06/21/2011 08:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1417728  United States06/21/2011 08:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1425103 Ireland06/21/2011 08:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1437496  United Kingdom06/21/2011 08:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OP Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1417728Do you subscribe to the theory that both sides are manipulated? I subscribe to the theory that the peace process was nicely timed just before a war in Afghanistan and Iraq and British troops would have been to busy to fight a war in Northern Ireland too. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1425103 Ireland06/21/2011 08:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OP Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1417728Do you subscribe to the theory that both sides are manipulated? I subscribe to the theory that the peace process was nicely timed just before a war in Afghanistan and Iraq and British troops would have been to busy to fight a war in Northern Ireland too. Plus, they got good urban warfare experience in NI. Some of the future Top Dogs in the British Army have cut their teeth on the streets of the North, invaluable, real-life urban warfare |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1425103 Ireland06/21/2011 08:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ooooooh please----they (military) practiced for years up north. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1169966anyway,marching season already ? or soon ? the 12th is just 3 weeks away, might get interesting up North as it gets closer... There are reports of marauding Loyalist and Republicans gangs attacking each other and attacking houses in rival estates |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1437496 United Kingdom06/21/2011 08:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OP Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1417728Do you subscribe to the theory that both sides are manipulated? I subscribe to the theory that the peace process was nicely timed just before a war in Afghanistan and Iraq and British troops would have been to busy to fight a war in Northern Ireland too. Plus, they got good urban warfare experience in NI. Some of the future Top Dogs in the British Army have cut their teeth on the streets of the North, invaluable, real-life urban warfare Yeah, nice live practice ground, just keep the peeps hating each other, and if they don't kill each other first send in the SAS disguised as murderers from one side or the other. That should stir the shit. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1437496 United Kingdom06/21/2011 08:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ooooooh please----they (military) practiced for years up north. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1169966anyway,marching season already ? or soon ? the 12th is just 3 weeks away, might get interesting up North as it gets closer... There are reports of marauding Loyalist and Republicans gangs attacking each other and attacking houses in rival estates I think I'll switch on the telly. |
