'Foreign link to Dorset St explosive find'

Morlar · 05-01-2010 03:45PM #1

~Does anyone know what the hell this is about ?

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0105/dorset.html

Foreign link to Dorset St explosive find
Tuesday, 5 January 2010 14:10

A 49-year-old man has been arrested following the discovery of explosive material in a flat on Dorset Street in Dublin.

RTÉ News has learned that the commercial explosive was illegally brought into the country as part of a security operation by another country.

It is understood the man and the explosives ended up in Ireland as part of a test exercise which appears to have gone wrong.

Gardaí received a phone call this morning from a security service abroad, telling them that a man was in a flat in Dorset St with around 100g of commercial explosive.

The adjoining homes and businesses were evacuated, roads were closed and the Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit removed the explosive for further analysis.

The Departments of Justice and Foreign Affairs have been informed and the incident will be dealt with through diplomatic channels.

Kiera · 05-01-2010 03:47PM

I dont geddit? Its was a test?

Morlar · 05-01-2010 03:49PM

Kiera wrote: »

I dont geddit? Its was a test?

Apparently. I am thinking israel or america, and probably not america. Unreal. I think if security needs to be improved you can do it by testing or pointing out areas of improvement, actually transporting live explosives is another matter and overstepping the law and normal boundaries between democratic countries.

AnonoBoy · 05-01-2010 03:51PM

I've read this book. Turns out the Explosovakians did it.

Kiera · 05-01-2010 03:52PM

Morlar wrote: »

Apparently. I am thinking israel or america, and probably not america. Unreal. I think if security needs to be improved you can do it by testing or pointing out areas of improvement, actually transporting live explosives is another matter and overstepping the law and normal boundaries between democratic countries.

If this is true then its off the wall. It cant be a test. With live ammo?

Morlar · 05-01-2010 03:54PM

Kiera wrote: »

If this is true then its off the wall. It cant be a test. With live ammo?

''100g of plasticine like exlposives'' - nice.

Trev M · 05-01-2010 03:55PM

...this does nothing for my paranoia tendencies:eek:

Daroxtar · 05-01-2010 03:55PM

So can we shoot the spy and take his bombs and say it was an accident?

imme · 05-01-2010 03:56PM

strange days indeed.
why are people jumping to Israel conclusion?

mike65 · 05-01-2010 03:56PM

How did the test go wrong? That it was discovered?

Morlar · 05-01-2010 03:57PM

Daroxtar wrote: »

So can we shoot the spy and take his bombs and say it was an accident?

He might have been a slovakian national acc breaking news though they leave out the 'working for a foreign government' part which is the bit that makes it interesting.

http://breakingnews.ie/ireland/man-arrested-after-dublin-explosives-find-440778.html

AnonoBoy · 05-01-2010 03:57PM

imme wrote: »

strange days indeed.
why are people jumping to Israel conclusion?

Slovakia is what the news on Radio 1 said.

Kiera · 05-01-2010 04:02PM

Morlar wrote: »

''100g of plasticine like exlposives'' - nice.

Stop confusing me! It says "A 49-year-old man has been arrested following the discovery of explosive material in a flat on Dorset Street in Dublin."

It says nothing about mála!

imme · 05-01-2010 04:04PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Slovakia is what the news on Radio 1 said.

thanks AB. some on here were jumping to Israel conclusion. why would Slovakia (manufacturers of plastic explosive) want to send it to Ire, and then ring up and say "it's in an apt on Dorset St.?

neil_hosey · 05-01-2010 04:07PM

imme wrote: »

thanks AB. some on here were jumping to Israel conclusion. why would Slovakia (manufacturers of plastic explosive) want to send it to Ire, and then ring up and say "it's in an apt on Dorset St.?

this is gonna be great.. cant wait to find out what happens.

ejmaztec · 05-01-2010 04:10PM

Probably a crate of this.

this.jpg

genericguy · 05-01-2010 04:23PM

imme wrote: »

strange days indeed.
why are people jumping to Israel conclusion?

usually people assume it to be a national of generistan in circumstances like this.

05-01-2010 04:28PM

Morlar wrote: »

I think if security needs to be improved you can do it by testing or pointing out areas of improvement, actually transporting live explosives is another matter and overstepping the law and normal boundaries between democratic countries.

Like the lady says....I don't geddit. Were they testing our security 'cos we asked them to or testing for their own purposes? This is all a bit confusing.

Kiera wrote: »

It says nothing about mála!

mála = bag
marla = the stuff you made snakes out of in senior infants. (High babies ftw).

AnonoBoy · 05-01-2010 04:31PM

Deleted User wrote: »

(High babies ftw).

Say no to drugs kids.

rednik · 05-01-2010 04:32PM

Damn it Jason Bourne has lost his memory again. I told him to go to Iceland.

Kiera · 05-01-2010 04:36PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Like the lady says....I don't geddit. Were they testing our security 'cos we asked them to or testing for their own purposes? This is all a bit confusing.

mála = bag
marla = the stuff you made snakes out of in senior infants. (High babies ftw).

I hadnt a clue how to spell it, so thanks

/and yeah its high babies!

05-01-2010 04:38PM

Didn't realise they had high and low babies out in Malahide. Would've thought yiz were well too posh for that.

Kiera · 05-01-2010 04:39PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Didn't realise they had high and low babies out in Malahide. Would've thought yiz were well too posh for that.

I'm not from Malahide. You need to brush up on your stalking, grasshoppa :P

CreepingDeath · 05-01-2010 04:41PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Were they testing our security 'cos we asked them to or testing for their own purposes?

More likely we were just a transit point and they were going to test another countries airport security e.g. US or UK.

ejmaztec · 05-01-2010 04:47PM

genericguy wrote: »

usually people assume it to be a national of generistan in circumstances like this.

It used to be Ruritania before the generifundamentalist revolution.

mike65 · 05-01-2010 04:48PM

Freedonia FTW

05-01-2010 04:50PM

Kiera wrote: »

I'm not from Malahide. You need to brush up on your stalking, grasshoppa :P

Thats it, $hifty.....lull them into a false sense of security.

CreepingDeath wrote: »

More likely we were just a transit point and they were going to test another countries airport security e.g. US or UK.

Still doesn't make sense. If what you say is true, why phone it in?

Morlar · 05-01-2010 04:53PM

CreepingDeath wrote: »

More likely we were just a transit point and they were going to test another countries airport security e.g. US or UK.

One theory (in a audio link from the original page) was that they were testing their own airport security. Also it was 100g of RDX (used to make C4). The whole story is odd, the fact that they transported it through Dub airport, and the fact that this happened on saturday and they only rang the Gardaí this morning. Maybe after the underpants bomber (hehe) they were doing some kind of rushed review ? Maybe more will follow on the story. I hope they do not just release the guy, he should be charged in my view.

Kiera · 05-01-2010 04:56PM

Anyone else dying to read RTDH take on this?

johnflan · 05-01-2010 05:10PM

Military Press Release

Statement - January 5, 1.30pm

An Army Bomb Disposal Team have secured a quantity of explosive material on Dorset Street following a request from The Gardai.

Once the explosive material was secured it was removed by the Bomb Disposal Team for further examination as to the explosive's grade. The Team arrived on scene at 11.10am and the scene was declared safe at 12.05pm.

Note to Editors: This was not a device, this was what we would classify as a find and the find was explosive material.

ENDS

If a government phoned them to inform of the situation why would they have to perform an "examination as to the explosive's grade"? unless of course it was from a unreputable government?

And being a security testing issue, why did the government even issue a press release about it?

delta720 · 05-01-2010 05:22PM

I don't think anyone could really believe that this was a 'test'. What part of a test could involve staying in a flat in Dorset St. Chances are we'll never find out what this is really all about, I'm sure things like this go on everyday without people knowing. Vauxhall Cross certainly is big enough.

'Foreign link to Dorset St explosive find'

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