Security Alert in Forkhill

aoifemonaghan

Hiya, was just wondering has anyone heard anymore on whats happening in Forkhill?? it supposed to be a big operation with the british camped up for the night...

Burnt

BBC are reporting a hoax... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8241091.stm

aoifemonaghan

think that was another suspect device in co down, this was in county armagh just on the boarder...

marco murphy

Army choppers are flat out over Forkhill.

In other news, cops and tactical support are crawling all over Derry.

marco murphy

Army makes safe 600lb border bomb



A 600lb bomb has been made safe by an Army bomb disposal team near Forkhill, County Armagh, on the border with the Republic of Ireland.

The device had a command wire running from where it was planted in Northern Ireland to a firing point across the border.

It is suspected that dissident republicans planted the bomb.

Police said that there could have been a "devastating outcome" and that the police were the targets of the bombers.

"The actions of terrorist criminals in planting this device in the Forkhill area put local people and police officers at significant risk," Chief Inspector Sam Cordner said.

'Reckless'

"Their actions were reckless and dangerous in the extreme. Their target may have been the police, but they did not care who they killed or injured.

"It is only through the hard work and professionalism of police officers and their military colleagues that the area has been made safe."

The remains of the device, which contained fertiliser-based homemade explosives, have been removed for further examination.

The Irish Army and police carried out a similar security operation in the Republic.

The alert in the area began last Tuesday following a telephoned warning to a newspaper.

In January, a 300lb bomb was defused in Castlewellan, County Down.

It is thought the bomb was planted by dissident republicans who were trying to target the Ballykinler army base.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8244138.stm

Morpheus

is that an irish aircorps chopper?

marco murphy

I'm pretty sure its the PSNI one

citizen_p

Perestroika wrote: »

The device had a command wire running from where it was planted in Northern Ireland to a firing point across the border.

It is suspected that dissident republicans planted the bomb.

just look for the guys that both all the exstension leads

Local-womanizer

Perestroika wrote: »

I'm pretty sure its the PSNI one

Yea,its not Irish,big yellow band along the top usually means police in the UK.

Steyr

Yup that helicopter is a PSNI helicopter, RTE had good footage of an RAF Wokka ( Chinook ) lovely sound off those birds.

Local-womanizer

Steyr wrote: »

Yup that helicopter is a PSNI helicopter, RTE had good footage of an RAF Wokka ( Chinook ) lovely sound off those birds.

Seen that.I would love to get a go in one.