4/12/10 - Car Bomb - Belfast, Northern Ireland
Sunday, April 11, 2010
9:50 PM
Claire Morcos
Labels: 04/10 , Belfast , Car Bomb , Ireland , Irish Republican Army , 1 comments
Date: April 12th, 2010
Method: Car Bomb
Location: Palace Barracks in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 1
Perpetrators: Irish Republican Army
Wire Update reports:
A car bomb exploded near the security headquarters in Belfast, Northern Ireland on Monday, local media reports. Dissident Republicans are suspected.The New York Times reports:
The Police Service of Northern Ireland said IRA dissidents held a Belfast taxi driver at gunpoint in his home and used his cab to carry the bomb to the security walls of Palace Barracks, a former British Army base that houses the Northern Ireland branch office of domestic spy agency MI5.
The Guardian reports the car bomb was:
timed to coincide with the transfer of power as the Stormont parliament took over judicial and policing powers at midnight. Northern Ireland now has its first justice minister in nearly four decades.
Later today David Ford, the leader of the centrist Alliance party, is expected to receive the backing of the two main parties in the assembly and become the head of the new justice ministry.
Ford's elevation is due to a deal hammered out earlier this year between Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionists at Hillsborough that saved power sharing.
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