Terrorist Attack

[Mr Dave]

Reports are starting on the news that several people have been shot and at least one killed outside Masereene Army Barracks in Antrim.

RIP

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/793083...

Edited by Mr Dave on Saturday 7th March 22:48

[Wyvern971]

Not good news, RIP

[Fabric 2.2]

BBC News said:

Shots fired at soldiers in Antrim
Breaking News

Soldiers in County Antrim have come under fire during a gun attack at an Army base.

Unconfirmed reports said that a number of people had been wounded, but it is not clear if they were civilians or military personnel.

Shots were fire at the Masserene Army base in Antrim, 16 miles north of Belfast, at 2140 GMT.

A spokesperson for the Police Service of Northern Ireland said it was not known if there were any casualties.

One report said that shots were fired from a passing car during the incident. [/small]

Should be interesting to see how this develops, hopefully nobody too badly hurt.


Edit: noticed one killed, rip.

Edited by Fabric 2.2 on Saturday 7th March 22:52

[Mr Dave]

Fabric 2.2 said:

BBC News said:

Shots fired at soldiers in Antrim
Breaking News

Soldiers in County Antrim have come under fire during a gun attack at an Army base.

Unconfirmed reports said that a number of people had been wounded, but it is not clear if they were civilians or military personnel.

Shots were fire at the Masserene Army base in Antrim, 16 miles north of Belfast, at 2140 GMT.

A spokesperson for the Police Service of Northern Ireland said it was not known if there were any casualties.

One report said that shots were fired from a passing car during the incident. [/small]

Should be interesting to see how this develops, hopefully nobody too badly hurt.

Unfortunately someone has already been killed.

[elster]

Well not known yet if it was the drive by shooters who are laying there dead now, rather than the soldiers.

[Fabric 2.2]

Just noticed that

[tegwin]

st... thats scary!!!

Cue every miltiary base in the country going on Red allert!

[Martial Arts Man]

I bet there's a link between this, if it turns out to be whatever the IRA "soldiers" like to call themselves nowadays, and economic strife south of the border.

Things are really hard in Eire right now.


It's all we need right now, though.


And we thought the Islamists were scary......the IRA were 10x more accomplished.

[Oily Fingernails]

Not Good news.

Thoughts and Wishes go out to the wounded,and their families

Sounds like a reaction to recent intel ops by Irish Forces.

Hopefully its just a couple of idiots with some left-over weaponry and not something that might rock the political boat over there.

[sadoksevoli]

Story other day on BBC that Army has started to deploy special reconnaissance regiment troops in NI to keep an eye dissidents. Maybe not a coincidence.

[The Dirty Bubble]

Martial Arts Man said:

I bet there's a link between this, if it turns out to be whatever the IRA "soldiers" like to call themselves nowadays, and economic strife south of the border.

Things are really hard in Eire right now.


It's all we need right now, though.


And we thought the Islamists were scary......the IRA were 10x more accomplished.

No IRA suicide bombers though, and more often than not they gave warnings.

• Edit*

That sounds a bit like I am defending the IRA, just think Islamic terrorists are in a different category of evil bds.

Edited by The Dirty Bubble on Saturday 7th March 23:39

[Eric Mc]

Bugger.

Some people can't bear to leave it alone and ruin everything.

Edited by Eric Mc on Saturday 7th March 23:49

[Mr Dave]

Two Fatalities on the news....

[Disco_Dale]

A great shame.
Just as some sort of fragile peace is negotiated some tosser turns up aiming to kick it off again.

[V8A*ndy]

Two soldiers dead!!!!!!!!!!!

As i've said before forget the politics this st must stop NOW!

[AonFocalEile]

Dragging the North back into the past.

These guys are isolated and the transition to peace has been easier than most expected, in reality I expected things like this to happen more than it has.

This is a blip by those that don’t want to move on.

[Eric Mc]

Let's hope so.

It all depends on how the communities in NI react. They either say "Let's move on" or sink back into their old emnity.

[Chris_w666]

Sad news, both for those affected by the deaths and NI.

[elster]

It certainly is a sad day for two soldiers to lose their lives

Hopefully as Eric says there will be no further repercussions.

[Wacky Racer]

Here we go again.......

Hopefully this will be an isolated incident and the gunmen will be found and arrested ASAP.......