New IRA Threatens Home Bombings

0:00On April 2, 8, the new IRA claimed responsibility for a car bomb that blew up outside of Belfast Police Station last Saturday. No one got hurt, but in a statement, they warned those start targeting cops right in their own homes with no warning. This came after they hijacked the delivery van and forced the driver to park it at the station. It's the latest in a string of sporadic attacks by these dissidents, nearly 30 years after the peace deal that mostly ended the troubles. These groups reject the 1998 Good Friday agreement, which keeps Northern Ireland tied to the UK unless voters say otherwise. The last officer killed was Constable Ronan Kerr, 15 years back when a bomb hit his car outside his house. The statement, verified by a co-worker to the Irish news, said they meant to take out police leaving the station that day. Now they're escalating, promising home bombings if cops keep harassing Republican communities. Police aren't high alert for this potential ramp up in violence, as these small factions try to stir old flames in a mostly peaceful region.

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