Northern Ireland

北アイルランドは今年､英国本国から司法権を移譲されたと記憶しています｡それを狙ったかのように､というのは言い過ぎかもしれませんが､治安情勢はよくないようです｡以下はThe Guardianから｡

Northern Ireland's chief constable warns of dissident republican threat
Police chief says 'absolutely reckless' groups are capable of another Omagh bomb-style massacre

by Henry McDonald, Ireland correspondent guardian.co.uk, Monday 9 August 2010

Northern Ireland's chief constable warned today that dissident republicans are "absolutely reckless" and in danger of causing another Omagh bomb-style massacre.

Matt Baggott described the threat from the Real IRA, Oghlaigh na hEireann and the Continuity IRA as severe as ever.

"These are the same people or the same mindset that ultimately led to the Omagh tragedy all those years ago," the head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland said during a visit to Derry today.

The chief constable held talks with traders and residents caught up in last week's bomb attack on Strand Road police station.

"They offer no solution to the future except going back to the past. They are absolutely reckless," he said of the dissident groups.

Baggott said potential victims who escaped over the last seven days included a policewoman and her baby, a kebab shop owner and elderly people forced out of their care home in Derry due to the bombing.

It also emerged today that dissident republicans almost killed a toddler during an attempted murder bid on her mother, a Catholic police officer in Co Down.

The child was strapped into a seat in the back of a car when her mother started the vehicle in Kilkeel on Saturday. An explosive device fixed underneath the vehicle then fell off. Security sources told the Guardian today that the dissident bombmakers were having problems with magnets used to attach their devices to cars.

"Once they get that right it is only a matter of time before they kill someone," one senior detective said.

The murder bid has sparked further controversy after the officer's uncle, a former Sinn Féin councillor, refused to condemn those behind the attack. Martin Connolly, an independent republican councillor in Newry and Mourne, said he did not want to engage "in the politics of condemnation" – a standard line Sinn Féin representatives used when the IRA was still involved in violence during the Troubles.

Local Democratic Unionist party assembly member Jim Wells said that in the light of the Kilkeel booby trap attack, it was now inaccurate to dismiss the dissidents as just a gang made up of a few disgruntled republicans.

"We've seen a week with dissident attacks in Londonderry, Bangor and now Kilkeel; the message is very clear – the dissident threat is throughout Northern Ireland. Those who are saying it's one or two isolated pockets are totally wrong," he said.