Old explosive used in N. Ireland attack
Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2008
police deputy chief constable Paul Leighton said. One officer suffered minor injuries in Saturday’s attack, although the grenade failed to explode.
The Semtex, a plastic explosive used by the Irish Republican Army during its violent campaign against British rule, is thought to have been part of a weapons cache that was decommissioned by the IRA as part of the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — A man used Semtex in a rocket-propelled grenade attack against Northern Ireland police officers, the first attack using the deadly explosive since paramilitary groups agreed to hand in their weapons, police said Tuesday.
Dissident groups have attacked police seven times since November, but they have never used Semtex, Northern Ireland
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