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26/03/2008
INLA Bomb Attack Foiled
A pipebomb disarmed in Dublin yesterday may have been the work of the republican terror group, the INLA.
The bomb was discovered in a Pringles crisp container, taped to the side of a maroon Nissan Almera. The car was in the car park in the centre of the Braithwaite Street flats complex in Pimlico.
Garda have linked the bomb attempt to senior INLA figures and local sources in the area have indicated the INLA have become more active in criminal elements in the city. It is understood the INLA have began taking money from drug dealers and intimidating them.
The bomb attempt is thought to involve the same people as a grenade attack in the Coombe area last June.
The International Monitoring Commission (IMC) said in a report last year that the INLA were becoming particularly active in Dublin.
The increasing activity has been linked to the release from prison last February of a leading member of the organisation, who is also thought to be behind the latest incident. A Dublin City Council worker spotted the device.
An Army bomb disposal team carried out a controlled explosion at 10.05am and gave the all-clear at 11.15am.
An army spokesman, describing the device as “viable”, said: "If you were standing next to it and it went off, you could have been killed or maimed. The disguising of this precarious, crude, homemade device in readily recognisable packaging is disturbing.
"This could have attracted the attention of children in the vicinity with potentially dangerous results."
The Army's Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) team have now been called out 15 times this year to deal with suspect devices.
In the whole of 2007, they were only called out 14 times.
(DW)
The bomb was discovered in a Pringles crisp container, taped to the side of a maroon Nissan Almera. The car was in the car park in the centre of the Braithwaite Street flats complex in Pimlico.
Garda have linked the bomb attempt to senior INLA figures and local sources in the area have indicated the INLA have become more active in criminal elements in the city. It is understood the INLA have began taking money from drug dealers and intimidating them.
The bomb attempt is thought to involve the same people as a grenade attack in the Coombe area last June.
The International Monitoring Commission (IMC) said in a report last year that the INLA were becoming particularly active in Dublin.
The increasing activity has been linked to the release from prison last February of a leading member of the organisation, who is also thought to be behind the latest incident. A Dublin City Council worker spotted the device.
An Army bomb disposal team carried out a controlled explosion at 10.05am and gave the all-clear at 11.15am.
An army spokesman, describing the device as “viable”, said: "If you were standing next to it and it went off, you could have been killed or maimed. The disguising of this precarious, crude, homemade device in readily recognisable packaging is disturbing.
"This could have attracted the attention of children in the vicinity with potentially dangerous results."
The Army's Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) team have now been called out 15 times this year to deal with suspect devices.
In the whole of 2007, they were only called out 14 times.
(DW)
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