Two British soldiers were yesterday night (Saturday night) shot dead in a British military base in Northern Ireland. The more-than-one-decade term of peace was all the sudden interrupted when (according to Sky News TV Channel) three men took advantage of a pizza delivery and shot with automatic guns four soldiers as they approached the door to pick up the pizzas. The names of the soldiers have not yet been publicized.
The soldiers were not the only people to get hurt by the attack. According to the Guardian, two other military men and two pizza delivery guys were badly injured. Among the pizza delivery guys was a 32-year-old Polish citizen, who worked as a pizza delivery guy. He was badly hurt and was last night in a critical condition. According to authorities, the mercenaries were well-armed and prepared to commit a massacre.
According to the Guardian, the motive for this attack was the accusations that the new police service's chief of Northern Ireland, Sir Hugh Orde directed to the Republican party of Northern Ireland. The Guardian reported today: "Sir Hugh Orde said: there was a growing threat of violence from dissident republicans. A huge police manhunt is now under way."
This attack was not believed to be an act of the IRA until a phone call made by an anonymous caller - claiming to be an IRA soldier - to the Sunday Tribune newspaper's offices in Dublin declared that the total responsibility belongs to the IRA. The call was made by a unidentified person who used code language - such as the code language that the original IRA used.The Guardian also reported: "A journalist at the Dublin-based Sunday Tribune's office in Belfast said that the newspaper took a call claiming responsibility for the attack by the Real IRA's Antrim brigade."
There is no doubt that this is the a terrorist attack, and taking into consideration all that happened in Northern Ireland during the 80s - as many in the streets believe - this could be the beginning of a serious of attacks from a new and stronger IRA. However, why would the IRA come back after more than a decade of peace? And what are they after now?
I believe with no doubt that this could be a start of a new era of battles against a new IRA, but I also believe that the government and the British people are more prepared to fight against a new IRA.
It must be taken into consideration that the IRA has weakened after more than 10 years of not being active and I believe that this attack is an alert from a minor group of people who want to start something that has been over for more than a decade.
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