Thursday, August 30, 2007

Terrorist Attacks Continue in Northern Ireland

Never mind the lies that Sinn Fein/IRA tell about laying down their weapons and seeking peace. Terrorist attacks continue in Belfast, and the nature of their intended targets reveal what cowards these terrorists really are. In the first case, they are attacking a pregnant woman and an 18 day old baby boy:


Tuesday night's petrol bomb attack on the home of a young couple and their new-born baby
was the latest chapter in the ongoing nightmare on north Belfast's Twaddell Avenue. A young couple targeted by petrol bombers in the latest of a summer of attacks on Twaddell Avenue in north Belfast say they've no option but to leave the area. Their 18-day-old son was lying sleeping just feet beside the living room window when it was engulfed in flames late on Tuesday night.The baby's father, who did not want to be named, said his son would have been burned alive if the petrol bomb had broken through the window.He and his girlfriend have endured five years of sporadic attacks on their terrace home on the frontline of the interface with the nationalist Ardoyne.However, with the welfare of their firstborn in mind, they've now decided enough is enough and are set to move away.

And in this case, they are attacking elderly people who live on the border between a catholic and a protestant neighborhood:


Dark days go on for petrified pensioner

LEN Kane has read plenty about Ulster's bright new dawn of late.
The 82-year-old former professional footballer has also heard all about the shared future everyone has supposedly embarked upon.But from the window of his Twaddell Avenue home he’s yet to see much evidence of any of it.Len lives on the unionist side of the volatile interface with the nationalist Ardoyne area. He’s done so for 57 years.He’s seen the Troubles come and go, but one thing hasn’t changed – Len still lives in constant fear of attack.“This isn’t a new Northern Ireland here,” he said.“We’re having daily trouble. It’s hard to say what can been done, but to me it will never settle – we’ll always get these hit-and-run attacks coming in and out.“Nobody can control them because it’s a hit-and-run set up. They fly in and fly out again.”

And do their catholic neighbors feel the same fear?

John McVicker from the Greater Shankill Community Council said Twaddell Avenue was “a very settled community, disproportionately high with elderly”.The nationalist side of the interface is not attacked in the same way, he said.“I keep asking nationalist and republican residents how many times houses in Brompton Park, which would be equivalent of Twaddell Avenue [on the Ardoyne side], have been attacked in last 30 years – it would be minimal.”

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