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ARMAGH BRIGADE BOMB COPS

Bomb Attack Armagh City

Reports have come out of a blast bomb attact on a police land rover on the Ring Road in Armagh City.

Local eye wittnesses claim that the blast bomb made a direct hit on the bonnet and exploded on impact.The land rover left the scene at great speed having sustained significant damage.

The local priests house recieved a coded telephone call stateing that the Armagh Brigade of C.I.R.A were claiming the attack.

The bomb attack occured at 11.30pm on Saturday 9th June.Local people in the surrounding area stated the explosion could be heard over a mile away.

A coded claim from the C.I.R.A was also recieved by the Irish News Newspaper.

C.I.R.A ATTACK SOUTH ARMAGH BARRACKS

It was reported on November 9th 2006 that shoots were fired at the RUC/PSNI barracks in Keady South Armagh.

Ulster Television said that bullets holes were visible in the security fence and wall. A local person living across from the

barracks said that an explosion rocked his house just before the gunfire and he said a helicopter was out all night but

no member of the British Crown Forces landed until morning. UTV also said that two of the British colonial police were

in the barrack yard when the shooting started and hid in the barracks. They later phoned a nearby residents to ask what

had happened and could they see anything.

In a statement released to the media on November 25 the Armagh City Brigade of the Continuity Irish Republican

Army claimed responsibility for the attack on Keady RUC/PSNI barracks on November the 9th. The statement said :

"Two fully armed units descended on Keady early in the evening to ensure the area was secured. Volunteers observed the

station and noted two RUC/PSNI cops positioned inside the perimeter fence, the signal was given for the lead unit to

employ their mission. A Volunteer armed with an AK-47 assault riffle opened fire whilst a second Volunteer threw a blast

bomb. "The following day the media reported the successful attack and heard from a local resident that the blast bomb

attack had shaken his house and the gunfire could clearly be heard in the surrounding area, he continued to say the RUC/

PSNI had phoned him to ask if he had heard the attack as they were afraid to leave the station and check for damage in

case they were attacked, as they had no back up." In their statement the C.I.R.A said that such attacks against the

British police force would continue, and shop owners in the Lurgan, Armagh and Keady areas were warned that serving

the RUC/PSNI would not be tolerated, and direct action would be taken against them if they continued.

"Responsibility for this attack was issued to the Irish News newspaper and UTV by way of a recognised code word"

The statement ended.

ARMAGH BRIGADE ATTACKS THE RUC/PSNI

CIRA shooting attack claims

The Continuity IRA has claimed it carried out two gun attacks on the PSNI in Armagh city on July 12.

A handwritten statement from the Armagh city command given to Daily Ireland said the Continuity IRA had launched the attacks to protect nationalists in the Drumarg and Mullacreevie estates after the PSNI had moved in to confront rioters. “An active service unit of the Continuity IRA monitored the situation from noon that day,” the statement said.

“PSNI personnel increased in numbers and moved in on a number of rioters, forcing the Continuity ASU [active service unit] to open fire and engage, which they did with an AK47 on two Land Rovers on Armagh’s ring road. The PSNI immediately left the scene.”

The statement alleged that the security forces had endangered civilian lives by ignoring a number of bomb warnings in recent months.
“If the British forces continue with this practice, it is inevitable that lives will be lost,” the statement said.

Republican sources have said the Continuity IRA in Armagh city is one of the organisation’s stronger units. A PSNI spokesperson said it had received no reports of any shooting incidents in Armagh on the day.
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10/11/2005

CIRA – ‘We did not kill Armagh man’

Daily Ireland

Republican group moves to end speculation on murder

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“Mr Conlon was never a member of the Continuity IRA and never had any dealings with the Continuity IRA. It is not for us to speculate why he was shot”

The Continuity IRA has moved to end speculation that it was behind the murder of County Armagh man Martin Conlon.
In an exclusive interview the Officer Commanding the organisation’s Armagh City unit told Daily Ireland that 35-year-old Mr Conlon was not killed by the armed republican group.
Mr Conlon died after being shot several times in the head on Monday evening. He had earlier been dragged from a friend’s house in the Monaghan Road area of the city.
In recent days certain media reports have speculated that Mr Conlon may have been murdered after a fall out between armed anti Good Friday Agreement groups in Armagh City. The Continuity IRA’s Armagh City OC, accompanied by his second in command, last night said Mr Conlon was not a member of the organisation and slammed reports that republican groupings are at loggerheads in the Cathederal City.
“The Continuity IRA had nothing to do with the murder of Martin ‘Golfball’ Conlon. There is absolutely no conflict with the different republican groups in Armagh City. We have a good working relationship with other republican groups in this city. Despite what has been suggested there is no dispute involving either Continuity IRA or Real IRA prisoners either. Mr Conlon was never a member of the Continuity IRA and never had any dealings with the Continuity IRA. It is not for us to speculate why he was shot.
The senior CIRA man also moved to end speculation locally that Mr Conlon may have been killed because he was working with British security services. The unemployed lorry driver’s body was discovered dumped a short distance from the scene of a recently failed CIRA bomb attack leading some to speculate that the murder site was symbolic.
“We can claim responsibility for the anti-personnel booby trap device left outside Armagh last week. We phoned in two warnings and the British government jeopardised civilian lives by leaving the device there for two days. Martin Conlon had nothing to do with that incident. An active service unit from Armagh City placed that device it had nothing to do with Martin Conlon, he wouldn’t have known about it. Any speculation to the contrary is wrong.
“We have called this conference out of respect to the Conlon family and make them aware we had nothing to do with his death. We express our sympathy to the family.”
The Continuity IRA spokesman denied that a number of men, including a prominant north Armagh republican, had been ordered out of the country by the group in recent weeks.
“No-one has been expelled from this city. We believe these reports are being generated by British forces trying to fire things up because the organisation is getting support.
The CIRA spokesman reissued a death threat made against three alleged drug dealers ordered out of Keady, County Armagh, several weeks ago.
“Three men were expelled from Keady (County Armagh) a few weeks ago for drug dealing. These three men are dead men walking if they do not leave the country.”

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Army defuse bomb in hotel grounds

Army bomb experts carrried out controlled explosions

The Army has defused a car bomb in the grounds of an Armagh hotel.

The device, made up of gas cylinders, was left in a vehicle outside the Armagh City Hotel on the Friary Road.

A number of controlled explosions were carried out on the car, which is thought to have been stolen in the Armagh area on Tuesday night.

PSNI Supterintendent Bob Moore said it was carried out by those who "wanted to terrorise" others with their "repugnant activity and redundant mindset".

"The motive for this incident defies logic and rational understanding," he said.

"All that has been achieved as a result of the incident at the City Hotel is widespread disruption, worry and upset to the wider community residing, working, visiting or travelling through Armagh.

"It creates a negative impact and undoes all the good work that has and is being done by council, community leaders and the business fraternity to attract employment and tourism to the area. "

Mr Moore said that two cars and a shotgun had been stolen from a house in the Ballyrath area of Armagh before 2300 GMT on Tuesday, by men describing themselves as republicans.

He said an elderly woman in the house suffered shock as a result of what he said was a "despicable" incident.

A vehicle, thought to be one of the stolen cars, was later found on fire.

A Vauxhall Vectra car was found abandoned in the car park of the Armagh City Hotel on Wednesday morning following a telephone call.

Police are trying to establish if it was the car stolen from the Ballyrath Road.

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	CIRA says it left bomb in the grounds of Armagh hotel Daily Ireland 12/01/2006 The Continuity IRA has admitted leaving a bomb at an Armagh hotel yesterday. In a statement issued to Daily Ireland, a spokesperson for the organisation said Armagh City Hotel and a neighbouring PSNI station had both been targets of the car-bomb attack. A spokesperson for the anti-Good Friday Agreement group said the hotel had been targeted because it regularly hosted meetings of Armagh District Policing Partnership and let members of the security forces use its premises. The spokesperson said the hotel would be targeted again if it continued to host meetings of the policing body and serve security force members. In 1998, the Real IRA launched a mortar attack on the nearby RUC barracks from the grounds of the hotel. British army bomb-squad officers spent several hours yesterday defusing the device, which included several gas cylinders. The officers carried out a number of controlled explosions during the operation. The device had been placed in a Vauxhall Vectra car, which the PSNI said might have been stolen in Armagh city on Tuesday. A number of men calling themselves “republicans” seized two cars and a shotgun during a raid on a house in the Ballyrath district of Armagh at around 11pm on Tuesday. A car, believed to be one of the stolen vehicles, was later found on fire in the Armagh area.



	Harassment Arrests in Armagh - Three men held in British custody by Ruairi Og O Bradaigh - Republican Sinn Fein - Thursday, Jan 12 2006, 4:36pm desdalton@rsf.ie address: 223 Parnell St Dublin 1 - phone: 01 8729747 Republican Sinn Fein condemns the arrests of three cumann members in the Armagh city area in raids by the RUC/PSNI last night as the latest incidence in the continual harassment of Republicans by British Crown Forces. Masked RUC/PSNI raiders entered the home of one man as he returned from work last night and refused to let his children leave the house. He was then arrested and is still being held with two other men, also members of Republican Sinn Fein. In previous cases this British State harassment has led to spurious charges against members of the organisation which were later dropped. Ends. http://RSF.ie