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Unsophisticated bombs in London

  • 05-03-2019 7:19pm
    #1
    EDit
    Registered Users Posts: 819 ✭✭✭


    Sky getting knickers in a bunch over the Irish stamps on the bombs sent in the post to London. What do you folks reckon...lone republican nutjob, a genuine rise of a new IRA, or some ISIS lone wolf who happens to live here (or is this a false flag to make Ireland look bad, ya know cos of BREXIT)?

    https://news.sky.com/story/first-pictures-of-explosive-devices-sent-around-london-11655854


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  • #2
    Tomhammer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭Tomhammer


    Any prints on them


  • #3
    nacho libre
    Registered Users Posts: 16,626 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    It's obviously a MI5 conspiracy to remind people that a hard border risks going back to the bad old days. I for one will be glad when brexit, hard border and back stop are no longer in use


  • #4
    screamer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,130 ✭✭✭screamer


    Who knows, but if they go messing with the Good Friday agreement etc, they will add relevance back to those groups who are largely irrelevant now, and more of this sort of thing can be expected. I don’t think they quite understand what they are messing with in the pursuit of making Britain “great”


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    A blatant attempt by the pro-Brexit camp to undermine the backstop.


  • #6
    alchemist33
    Registered Users Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    Typical British media calling something from Ireland unsophisticated. Could they not have called our explosive devices stylish or elegant? I'd even settle for a "debonair."


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  • #7
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Return to sender! :D


  • #8
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Two of the incendiary devices were from England and all of them had to be put there by someone there.


  • #9
    slipperyox
    Registered Users Posts: 594 ✭✭✭slipperyox


    do they really
    want something sophisticated?


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    slipperyox wrote: »
    do they really
    want something sophisticated?

    Sky News want Brexit in its purest form, and Paddy to take his soup.


  • #11
    gooch2k9
    Registered Users Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭gooch2k9


    alchemist33 wrote: »
    Typical British media calling something from Ireland unsophisticated. Could they not have called our explosive devices stylish or elegant? I'd even settle for a "debonair."

    There's a lot to be said for simplicity!


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  • #12
    RasTa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,116 ✭✭✭✭RasTa


    Defo us lot
    It is understood that reports suggesting at least two of the packages had Republic of Ireland postage stamps on it are accurate.



    They are being treated as linked and the Met’s counter-terrorism command said it was keeping an “open mind regarding motives”. No arrests have been made and inquiries are continuing.

    At about 9.55am, officers received a report of a suspicious package at the Compass Centre. The package was opened by staff at the building, causing the device to initiate. This resulted in part of the package burning. No one was injured. Flights at Heathrow were not affected.

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  • #13
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users Posts: 3,917 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Return says Bus Éireann Dublin


  • #14
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    EDit wrote: »
    Sky getting knickers in a bunch over the Irish stamps on the bombs sent in the post to London. What do you folks reckon...lone republican nutjob, a genuine rise of a new IRA, or some ISIS lone wolf who happens to live here (or is this a false flag to make Ireland look bad, ya know cos of BREXIT)?

    https://news.sky.com/story/first-pictures-of-explosive-devices-sent-around-london-11655854
    I think a good few people associated with Saoradh may be getting contacted by the garda and British intelligence. Serves them right after their idiocy a few weeks ago with the car bomb, supporting (and possibly having knowledge of or involvement with) terrorism up north.


  • #15
    Duane Dibbley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭Duane Dibbley


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Sky News want Brexit in its purest form, and Paddy to take his soup.

    No they dont. They go to great lengths to dismantle brexiteers logic

    BBC on the other hand.......


  • #16
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    keeping the hard border question alive...


  • #17
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    They tricked them with the Love stamps.

    qpu9NmnTT64g2AVleHTA_stamp.JPG


  • #18
    The Satanist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 693 ✭✭✭The Satanist


    Up the Ra


  • #19
    schizo1014
    Registered Users Posts: 307 ✭✭schizo1014


    Wouldn't be the first time a group like the New IRA sent letter bombs to addresses in England


  • #20
    ShadyAcres
    Registered Users Posts: 212 ✭✭ShadyAcres


    These suicide bombers really get my goat, Whatever happened to good old gentlemen bombers like the IRA who would quietly pop a bomb under a table and leave without making a song and dance about it.


  • #21
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,198 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Grab All Association wrote: »
    Return says Bus Éireann Dublin

    That narrows the suspects to only around 1.5 million pissed off commuters.

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



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  • #22
    Sciprio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Sciprio


    I'd keep an open mind. Them stamps can be bought online from anywhere in the world and have them delivered to their country like it could be a brexiteer or some unionist with an agenda we just don't don't yet. The type of package they were sent in should be source were they can be bought as well. It seems a bit off to me and sending them to airports? If it was the IRA wouldn't they target military,government spots instead?


  • #23
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    It's all too conveniently obvious, which screams some dimwitted Brexit head.


  • #24
    Tomhammer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭Tomhammer


    Sciprio wrote: »
    I'd keep an open mind. Them stamps can be bought online from anywhere in the world and have them delivered to their country like it could be a brexiteer or some unionist with an agenda we just don't don't yet. The type of package they were sent in should be source were they can be bought as well. It seems a bit off to me and sending them to airports? If it was the IRA wouldn't they target military,government spots instead?

    Wouldn't it be on the postmark


  • #25
    Sciprio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Sciprio


    Tomhammer wrote: »
    Wouldn't it be on the postmark
    I'm not sure on anything yet but they could've been posted by some numbskull in Ireland and hopefully whoever and whereever they are i hope they get caught quickly and anyway the packages look amateurish.


  • #26
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    What a gimpy news site.


  • #27
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 81,076 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Would P O'Neill need to Tweet bomb warnings nowadays?


  • #28
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,434 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    No one rushing to claim credit? Thought not.


  • #29
    Sciprio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Sciprio


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    No one rushing to claim credit? Thought not.
    Look at the state of them. I'd be embarrassed myself to claim them. :p


  • #30
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,651 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    ShadyAcres wrote: »
    These suicide bombers really get my goat, Whatever happened to good old gentlemen bombers like the IRA who would quietly pop a bomb under a table and leave without making a song and dance about it.

    Not funny.


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  • #31
    cnocbui
    Registered Users Posts: 19,651 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Sciprio wrote: »
    I'd keep an open mind. Them stamps can be bought online from anywhere in the world and have them delivered to their country like it could be a brexiteer or some unionist with an agenda we just don't don't yet. The type of package they were sent in should be source were they can be bought as well. It seems a bit off to me and sending them to airports? If it was the IRA wouldn't they target military,government spots instead?

    Try posting something in an An Post office with Italian stamps on it and tell us how you got on.


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