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Real IRA 'claims' to have shot British soldiers

by mudricky | March 8, 2009 at 12:14 pm

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An Irish newspaer has recieved a phonecall from someone claiming to be from the Real IRA.

They used a known codeword and calmied they carried out the attack on Saturday night at the Masserene army base in Northern Ireland.

Two soldiers were killed and four other males were injured.

One of the delivery men wounded in the shooting was named locally as Anthony Watson, 19, who lived in the Antrim area.

His condition in hospital is described as “serious”. The condition of the second man, a 32-year-old Pole, is critical. Both worked for Domino’s at Church St, Antrim.

The dead men, both in their early 20s were due to fly to Afghanistan in the coming days.
Flowers have been laid at the scene and a vigil was held nearby on Sunday.

The Real IRA was born out of a split in the mainstream Provisional IRA in October 1997, when the IRA's so-called quartermaster-general resigned over Sinn Fein's direction in the peace process.

It carried out the worst single atrocity of over 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland when it bombed the County Tyrone town of Omagh, killing 29 people, in August 1998