Good And Bad News In Northern Ireland


Huge bomb threat close to Northern Ireland border (ITN News)

Massive Bomb Defused In N.Ireland: Police -- AFP

BELFAST — Army experts in Northern Ireland defused a massive roadside bomb on Tuesday, averting what could have been a "devastating" explosion in the long-troubled province, police said.

The discovery of the 600-pound home-made device came six months after dissident Republicans shot two British soldiers and a police officer, reviving the spectre of violence a decade after a landmark peace accord.

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More News On The Discovery Of A Huge IED
Bombers 'intended to murder police' -- Press Association
NI police on 600lb bomb discovery -- BBC
Massive bomb found in Ulster -- The Sun
Bomb found in Northern Ireland -- The Telegraph
Police find huge bomb on Irish border -- The Guardian

Toursts stop to take photographs of some Ulster Defense Association (UDA) murals in the loyalist Shankill area of West Belfast, Northern Ireland February 22, 2003. REUTERS/Paul McErlane

Pro-British Group in Northern Ireland Pledges to Give up Arms -- Voice of America

Northern Ireland's last pro-British paramilitary group said it will get rid of its weapons within six months as police announced the discovery of a huge bomb in the province.

The Ulster Defen
Toursts stop to take photographs of some Ulster Defense Association (UDA) murals in the loyalist Shankill area of West Belfast, Northern Ireland February 22, 2003. REUTERS/Paul McErlane

Pro-British Group in Northern Ireland Pledges to Give up Arms -- Voice of America

Northern Ireland's last pro-British paramilitary group said it will get rid of its weapons within six months as police announced the discovery of a huge bomb in the province.

The Ulster Defense Association announced its plans to an international decommissioning body in what British and Irish authorities are calling a milestone in Northern Ireland's peace process.

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Update #1:
N. Ireland paramilitaries to decommission weapons -- AP
Update #2: Northern Ireland Terror Group to Disarm, U.K. Says -- Bloomberg

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