As civil war looks like it may once again return to the British Isles, Republican thugs wearing balaclavas and armed with molotov cocktails riot in the streets of the town of Antrim as police arrested the son of of former IRA terrorist over last week's murder of two British soldiers.
The 32-year-old and a second man, believed to be well-known Republican sympathiser Colin Duffy, 41, were arrested yesterday in connection with the brutal killing of Army Sappers Mark Quinsey, 23, and Patrick Azimkar, 21, at Massereene Army base. The two soldiers were preparing to go to Afghanistan with their regiment, which is based in County Antrim, on the night they were murdered.
Petrol bombs, bricks, stones and bottles were throwns at cops as they searched Duffy's home.
Duffy, from Lurgan, County Armagh, has recently taken a high-profile role acting as a spokesman for an Irish Republican group called Eirigi, which organised protests against the Police Service of Northern Ireland patrolling in the town (after all, it hard to commit mass murder and terrorist atrocities when the police have the audacity to be around fighting crime).
Republican killer's son quizzed over soldier murders as masked rioters return to streets of Ulster
By Alan Murray in Belfast and Jason Lewis in London
15th March 2009
Daily Mail
The son of a notorious Republican killer was last night being questioned over the murder of two soldiers gunned down at their Ulster barracks last weekend.
The 32-year-old and a second man, believed to be well-known Republican sympathiser Colin Duffy, 41, were arrested yesterday in connection with the brutal killing of Army Sappers Mark Quinsey, 23, and Patrick Azimkar, 21, at Massereene Army base.
Late last night a third man was arrested in the Antrim area. A fourth man, aged 21, was also being questioned.
Under attack: Masked youths pelt police with petrol bombs
Youths wearing black balaclavas yesterday threw petrol bombs, bricks, stones and bottles at police searching Duffy’s home in scenes depressingly reminiscent of the dark days of the Troubles.
A tense stand-off developed, with other masked rioters forming makeshift barricades to block the railway lines in the town. No injuries were reported.
Fire bomb: Republican rioters unleashed violence against the police in the wake of Colin Duffy's arrest
Duffy, from Lurgan, County Armagh, has recently taken a high-profile role acting as a spokesman for a Republican group called Eirigi, which organised protests against the Police Service of Northern Ireland patrolling in the town.
Lurgan and the nearby towns of Portadown and Craigavon are part of what was known as the ‘murder triangle’ during the long years of sectarian
violence.
Return to violence: Two rioters with unlit molotov cocktails
Last weekend’s Massereene attack saw more than 60 shots fired at the soldiers as they came out of the base to collect pizzas they had ordered.
Four other people, including two pizza delivery men, were injured as terrorists opened fire with semi-automatic weapons.
Stand-off: Youths gather in the home town of the former IRA prisoner
The dissident Republican group, the Real IRA, said it carried out the attack. A green Vauxhall Cavalier found abandoned seven miles from the Massereene base two hours after the attack is believed to have provided some forensic evidence.
An attempt had been made to burn the car but police described it as ‘a key line of inquiry’.
Tense: Hooded rioters prepare to hurl bottles at police
Before it was removed for forensic tests, an Army bomb-disposal team spent two days examining the car for a possible booby-trap device.
Colin Duffy, seen at an anti-British Army homecoming parade in Belfast, is one of the three men arrested by police probing the murder of two soldiers in Northern Ireland
The three men were arrested in Lurgan and Bellaghy, County Londonderry, and are currently being questioned at Antrim police station.
The soldiers, from 25 Field Squadron of 38 Engineer Regiment, were murdered just hours before there were to have been deployed in Afghanistan.
Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward called the attack ‘an act of extreme brutality’.
It was followed two days later by the murder of police officer Constable Stephen Carroll, 48, who was shot dead while on duty. It was the first murder of a police officer in Northern Ireland since 1998.
A separate dissident republican group, the Continuity IRA, said it carried out the attack.
A 37-year-old man and a 17-year-old have been arrested in connection with the murder of Constable Carroll.
On Thursday, detectives were given five more days to question the pair.
The arrests came after MI5 issued a public appeal on its website for information about the three murders.
It was only the second time MI5 had put out this kind of appeal. The first came after Islamic terrorists left a car bomb outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub in London in 2007.
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Murdered: Three men have been arrested over the shootings of soldiers Cengiz Azimkar, 21, (top) and Mark Quinsey, 23, (bottom)
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The 32-year-old and a second man, believed to be well-known Republican sympathiser Colin Duffy, 41, were arrested yesterday in connection with the brutal killing of Army Sappers Mark Quinsey, 23, and Patrick Azimkar, 21, at Massereene Army base. The two soldiers were preparing to go to Afghanistan with their regiment, which is based in County Antrim, on the night they were murdered.
Petrol bombs, bricks, stones and bottles were throwns at cops as they searched Duffy's home.
Duffy, from Lurgan, County Armagh, has recently taken a high-profile role acting as a spokesman for an Irish Republican group called Eirigi, which organised protests against the Police Service of Northern Ireland patrolling in the town (after all, it hard to commit mass murder and terrorist atrocities when the police have the audacity to be around fighting crime).
Republican killer's son quizzed over soldier murders as masked rioters return to streets of Ulster
By Alan Murray in Belfast and Jason Lewis in London
15th March 2009
Daily Mail
The son of a notorious Republican killer was last night being questioned over the murder of two soldiers gunned down at their Ulster barracks last weekend.
The 32-year-old and a second man, believed to be well-known Republican sympathiser Colin Duffy, 41, were arrested yesterday in connection with the brutal killing of Army Sappers Mark Quinsey, 23, and Patrick Azimkar, 21, at Massereene Army base.
Late last night a third man was arrested in the Antrim area. A fourth man, aged 21, was also being questioned.
Under attack: Masked youths pelt police with petrol bombs
Youths wearing black balaclavas yesterday threw petrol bombs, bricks, stones and bottles at police searching Duffy’s home in scenes depressingly reminiscent of the dark days of the Troubles.
A tense stand-off developed, with other masked rioters forming makeshift barricades to block the railway lines in the town. No injuries were reported.
Fire bomb: Republican rioters unleashed violence against the police in the wake of Colin Duffy's arrest
Duffy, from Lurgan, County Armagh, has recently taken a high-profile role acting as a spokesman for a Republican group called Eirigi, which organised protests against the Police Service of Northern Ireland patrolling in the town.
Lurgan and the nearby towns of Portadown and Craigavon are part of what was known as the ‘murder triangle’ during the long years of sectarian
violence.
Return to violence: Two rioters with unlit molotov cocktails
Last weekend’s Massereene attack saw more than 60 shots fired at the soldiers as they came out of the base to collect pizzas they had ordered.
Four other people, including two pizza delivery men, were injured as terrorists opened fire with semi-automatic weapons.
Stand-off: Youths gather in the home town of the former IRA prisoner
The dissident Republican group, the Real IRA, said it carried out the attack. A green Vauxhall Cavalier found abandoned seven miles from the Massereene base two hours after the attack is believed to have provided some forensic evidence.
An attempt had been made to burn the car but police described it as ‘a key line of inquiry’.
Tense: Hooded rioters prepare to hurl bottles at police
Before it was removed for forensic tests, an Army bomb-disposal team spent two days examining the car for a possible booby-trap device.
Colin Duffy, seen at an anti-British Army homecoming parade in Belfast, is one of the three men arrested by police probing the murder of two soldiers in Northern Ireland
The three men were arrested in Lurgan and Bellaghy, County Londonderry, and are currently being questioned at Antrim police station.
The soldiers, from 25 Field Squadron of 38 Engineer Regiment, were murdered just hours before there were to have been deployed in Afghanistan.
Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward called the attack ‘an act of extreme brutality’.
It was followed two days later by the murder of police officer Constable Stephen Carroll, 48, who was shot dead while on duty. It was the first murder of a police officer in Northern Ireland since 1998.
A separate dissident republican group, the Continuity IRA, said it carried out the attack.
A 37-year-old man and a 17-year-old have been arrested in connection with the murder of Constable Carroll.
On Thursday, detectives were given five more days to question the pair.
The arrests came after MI5 issued a public appeal on its website for information about the three murders.
It was only the second time MI5 had put out this kind of appeal. The first came after Islamic terrorists left a car bomb outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub in London in 2007.
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Murdered: Three men have been arrested over the shootings of soldiers Cengiz Azimkar, 21, (top) and Mark Quinsey, 23, (bottom)
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