MAGINNESS
CONDEMNS SUSPECT DEVICE IN NORTH BELFAST
22-10-09
SDLP
North Belfast MLA said reports of a blast at a Territorial Army
base in North Belfast were extremely disturbing.
He
said: “According to residents there was a loud bank during
the night and police are now investigating a suspect device. Whoever
was responsible is absolutely to be condemned and local people
who may have knowledge of the blast should contact the police
immediately.
“Those
who cause these explosions are not going to achieve anything,
whatever their objectives may be, because they have no public
support whatsoever and they are not going to get any. Ordinary
people want them off their backs, they want proper policing in
a community which is not under any paramilitary control and they
are quite prepared to support the police to put the dissident
groups out of business. These groups are facing failure, public
contempt and long jail sentences.”