Explosive thrown at house of former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams

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Explosive thrown at house of former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams

By Ian Graham

 

FILE PHOTO: Gerry Adams speaks at an event to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, April 10, 2018. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo

 

BELFAST (Reuters) - An explosive device was thrown at the home Gerry Adams in Belfast overnight, the former Sinn Fein leader said on Saturday, saying the attack may have been carried out by Irish nationalist militants opposed to Northern Ireland's peace deal.

 

A second device was thrown at the home of the party's former Northern Ireland Chairman Bobby Storey, he said.

 

Adams told journalists that no one was hurt in either attack, but that two of his grandchildren had been in his driveway 10 minutes before and could have been killed.

 

A police spokesman said remnants of "large industrial, firework-type devices capable of causing serious damage or injury" were found at both locations after the attacks, which he said took place late on Friday.

 

The Belfast attacks came after days of street violence in Northern Ireland's second city Londonderry, which police blamed on militant Irish nationalists opposed to a 1998 peace deal that Adams helped to broker.

 

Asked if dissident Irish nationalists were responsible for the attack on his home, Adams said that "there may be a connection with what is happening in Derry", referring to Londonderry.

 

Adams later said he was willing to meet with dissident nationalists and pro-British groups involved in violence in east Belfast in a bid to end recent street violence.

 

Northern Ireland's peace deal largely ended three decades of violence between Irish nationalists who wanted the region to join the Republic of Ireland and pro-British unionists who wanted it to remain British. More than 3,000 died in the violence.

 

Several groups of dissident Irish nationalists remain active and carry out occasional attacks, but their capacity is tiny compared with the Irish Republican Army (IRA), which decommissioned its weapons after the 1998 deal.

 

Many of the dissidents consider Adams and his Sinn Fein party - the former political wing of the IRA - as having betrayed the Irish nationalist cause by signing a peace agreement with the British government.

 

Political leaders in Northern Ireland have warned that Britain's decision to leave the European Union and the possibility of infrastructure on the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic for the first time since 1998 could help dissident groups to recruit new members.

 

Police on Friday blamed dissident group including the Real IRA for several nights of violence in Londonderry.

 

On Friday, 74 petrol bombs and two improvised explosive devices were thrown during street violence in the city, which Police Service of Northern Ireland Chief Constable George Hamilton said included attempts to murder police officers.

 

A spokeswoman on Saturday said police were attending incidents at two locations in West Belfast, but did not give any further details.

 

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said he "unequivocally condemned" the violence in Londonderry and Belfast, writing in a post on Twitter.

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-07-14

 

[Anythingleft?]

And we should care about his family? He never cared for anybody elses in the past....

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[Jack100]

Waited years and years for this !

[Denim]

This is normal for people like this. Not really newsworthy.

[JAG]

Live by the sword...

[Kieran00001]

1 hour ago, Jack100 said:

Waited years and years for this !

 

20 long year of peace, however did you manage, I take it you have no one to worry about should the troubles start again.

[Jonmarleesco]

17 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Adams told journalists that no one was hurt in either attack, but that two of his grandchildren had been in his driveway 10 minutes before and could have been killed.

Hmm. Takes you back a few years then, doesn't it, Gerry. 

[Jack100]

16 hours ago, Kieran00001 said:

 

20 long year of peace, however did you manage, I take it you have no one to worry about should the troubles start again.

Sorry about that , just personal , I know someone who has been in a ' chair  with wheels " for  nearly 40 years due to an explosive device set off in the UK. She's still only 44 .

I know there were probably even greater atrocities carried out by the other side but ............

 

[Baerboxer]

On 7/15/2018 at 3:06 PM, Jack100 said:

Sorry about that , just personal , I know someone who has been in a ' chair  with wheels " for  nearly 40 years due to an explosive device set off in the UK. She's still only 44 .

I know there were probably even greater atrocities carried out by the other side but ............

 

 

No actually, the indiscriminate murder of innocent people through the use of IED's such as car bombings, pub bombings etc was an IRA tactic. Go back and they were at it before WW1 and during WW2. The "troubles' of more recent times would have been much worse had there not been the real fear of a backlash against the Irish community living and working in the UK. 

Yet of course they all screamed about their HR when caught or shot.

 

The Irish were treated appallingly by Cromwell, who also treated anyone against him appallingly, and was a tin pot dictator. The restoration did little to improve that and the potato blight was handled appallingly. However, none of that excuses the murderous activities of terrorists who raise money through drugs and extortion and are little more than criminals in the main.

 

Adams has never renounced anything.

[JAG]

5 hours ago, Baerboxer said:

 

 

The Irish were treated appallingly by Cromwell, who also treated anyone against him appallingly, and was a tin pot dictator. The restoration did little to improve that and the potato blight was handled appallingly. However, none of that excuses the murderous activities of terrorists who raise money through drugs and extortion and are little more than criminals in the main.

 

Adams has never renounced anything.

In the immortal words of Flanders and Swan, from their "Song of Patriotic Prejudice" : " they blow up policemen, or so I have heard, and blame it on Cromwell or William the Third!"

[sammieuk1]

Gerry might need a pacemaker and a concrete overcoat. 

[bristolboy]

6 hours ago, Baerboxer said:

 

No actually, the indiscriminate murder of innocent people through the use of IED's such as car bombings, pub bombings etc was an IRA tactic. Go back and they were at it before WW1 and during WW2. The "troubles' of more recent times would have been much worse had there not been the real fear of a backlash against the Irish community living and working in the UK. 

Yet of course they all screamed about their HR when caught or shot.

 

The Irish were treated appallingly by Cromwell, who also treated anyone against him appallingly, and was a tin pot dictator. The restoration did little to improve that and the potato blight was handled appallingly. However, none of that excuses the murderous activities of terrorists who raise money through drugs and extortion and are little more than criminals in the main.

 

Adams has never renounced anything.

The Catholic Irish were treated appallingly by Cromwell. As were the Catholic Irish in Northern Island. Had the Northern Irish treated the Catholics as decently as the rest of Ireland treated Protestants after independence, the IRA would never have thrived in Northern Ireland. This was something the UK brought on itself. 

[AYJAYDEE]

On 7/14/2018 at 6:29 AM, Anythingleft? said:

And we should care about his family? He never cared for anybody elses in the past....

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Yes. Innocent children

[RuamRudy]

On ‎14‎/‎07‎/‎2018 at 5:29 PM, Anythingleft? said:

And we should care about his family? He never cared for anybody elses in the past....

 

I am sure that his justfication for his actions would be very similar to yours, and every bit as bogus.

 

"Man hands on misery to man,

It deepens like a coastal shelf..."