Police in Northern Ireland have reportedly thwarted an IRA terror bomb plot ahead of President Joe Biden’s visit to Belfast on Tuesday, it was revealed Sunday.
Members of the paramilitary group, the New IRA, were allegedly looking to purchase bomb parts in Derry and scheming to build an explosive device to disrupt Biden’s diplomatic stopover,“The belief is that the New IRA was planning some sort of attack to coincide with Biden’s visit, similar to the mortar attack on the cops in Strabane last November.”for detonating a roadside bomb targeting a police vehicle in County Tyrone. Two cops escaped injury when the bomb exploded next to their car.
reached in 1998 ended decades of sectarian fighting between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland, known as the Troubles.Former, who played a major role in negotiating the deal, also is expected to attend. Biden will also attend a series of other events in Ireland in County Louth and County Mayo, where the president’s has ancestral roots.
The president also is scheduled to deliver a public address at St. Muredach’s Cathedral in Ballina, County Mayo on April 14. The New IRA is an offshoot of the Irish Republican Army group, which disbanded following the Good Friday agreement.
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