Posted on 03/12/2009 12:25:58 PM PDT by 82ndABNOfficer
DUBLIN, Ireland A security alert has been issued today in the Northern Ireland town of Ballykinler, the site of a British Army base.
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The Real IRA was responsible for the largest bombing of the Troubles - the Omagh bombing in 1997.
They made several phone calls calling in a bomb threat, waited for the people to be evacuated and then set off the bomb in the area where all the people had been evacuated to.
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