Posted on 03/09/2009 5:31:08 PM PDT by the scotsman
A police officer has died following a shooting incident in Craigavon, County Armagh.
The incident is understood to have happened near Lismore Manor in the Brownlow area as police investigated reports of suspicious activity.
The attack follows the weekend murder of two soldiers outside an Army base in Antrim. The Real IRA said they were responsible for that shooting.
Politicians have condemned the latest killing of a security force member.
DUP assembly member David Simpson described the attack as an "outrage" and said those behind it were "vermin".
"What we have seen over the last 36 hours is a deliberate and sustained effort by terrorist murderers to try to drag Northern Ireland back to the worst days of Ulster's past," he said.
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Thanks for the welcome.
PS. It seems Obama doesn’t agree with your username eh? :)
No...I am not expecting an invitation to the White House any time soon. LOL!
I hadn’t heard about the local church having a service where the two soldiers were murdered. Thanks for sharing it.
Hi, here is some on that:
“Catholic and Protestant communities prayed together at Massereene barracks in the aftermath of the attack and senior clergy from the Church of Ireland and Catholic Church visited the injured in hospital.”
It sounds like both sides are strongly condemning this attack. Hopefully these attacks will be the only ones and the people of Ireland can continue to work at dissolving old hatreds.
“It sounds like both sides are strongly condemning this attack.”
Yes and No. Sinn Feinn still cannot bring themselves to condemn the killing of a Policeman or Soldier in cold blood - rather they are condemning this act because it is “counter-productive.”
So although I believe the majority of ordinary Catholics in Northern Ireland don’t want this, there is a relativey large minority (along with their politicians) who know they cannot return to the bad days but still see murdering an innocent (unarmed lets not forget) Soldier or Policeman in cold blood as a bad tactic rather than as evil.
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