Suspected IRA dissident detained over March killing of Northern Ireland policeman

October 12th, 2009 Clinton addresses Northern Ireland AssemblyBELFAST, Northern Ireland — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is delivering a speech to the Northern Ireland Assembly appealing to rival Catholic and Protestant leaders to strengthen their power-sharing government. Clinton told the lawmakers — the Irish Catholic bloc to her left, the British Protestants to her right — that their 2-year-old partnership is an inspiration to the world and demonstrates that even the most bitter conflicts can be resolved through patient, painful compromise.

October 8th, 2009 IRA dissidents shoot Northern Ireland man in legsDUBLIN — Police and politicians say Irish Republican Army dissidents have shot a Northern Ireland man in both legs in a so-called "punishment" attack, and police who responded were attacked with bricks, bottles and other makeshift weapons. One policeman was hospitalized with a head wound.

October 7th, 2009 Lithuania resumes IRA dissident trialVILNIUS, Lithuania — The trial of a suspected Irish Republican Army dissident accused of trying to purchase weapons and explosives in Lithuania resumed Wednesday with defense attempts to get the prosecutor dismissed. Michael Campbell, the brother of a senior Real IRA figure in Ireland, was arrested in January 2008 when he allegedly handed euro10,000 (then $14,000) to an undercover Lithuanian intelligence agent posing as a weapons supplier.

September 23rd, 2009 Bombs kill policeman, 4 Iraqi soldiers in IraqBAGHDAD — Two roadside bombings in and around the restive northern Iraq city of Mosul and a third in Baghdad killed four Iraqi soldiers and a policeman on Wednesday. The policeman was killed around 9 a.m.

September 23rd, 2009 Bombs kill policeman, 6 Iraqi soldiers in IraqBAGHDAD — Two roadside bombings in and around the restive northern Iraq city of Mosul and a third in Baghdad killed six Iraqi soldiers and a policeman on Wednesday. The policeman was killed around 9 a.m.

September 8th, 2009 N. Ireland paramilitaries to decommission weaponsLONDON — The British government said Tuesday the last remaining armed paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland had pledged to decommission all their weapons within six months. Northern Ireland police said separately that the army had defused a massive bomb, containing around 600 pounds (272 kilograms) of homemade explosives in the village of Forkhill, close to the South Armagh border with Ireland.

August 5th, 2009 Ireland paroles last 2 Provisional IRA prisonersDUBLIN — The last two men imprisoned for Provisional IRA offenses won parole from prison Wednesday, closing another chapter in peacemaking — and reopening memories of a killing that infuriated much of Ireland. Pearse McCauley and Kevin Walsh walked free from Ireland's Castlerea prison 10 1/2 years after they were convicted for the Irish Republican Army killing of an Irish policeman guarding a cash delivery van.

July 23rd, 2009 2nd N.Ireland man charged with killing soldiersDUBLIN — The Northern Ireland police say they have charged a second suspected IRA dissident with the killing of two off-duty British soldiers in March. The 44-year-old man will be identified at his arraignment later Thursday at a court northwest of Belfast.

June 21st, 2009 NIreland police charge 2 over attacks on RomaniansBELFAST, Northern Ireland — Police in Northern Ireland have charged two teenagers over a series of attacks on Romanian families that drove 100 people from their homes. The Police Service of Northern Ireland says the boys — aged 15 and 16 — were charged with provocative conduct late Saturday.

June 19th, 2009 Northern Ireland police search houses in BelfastBELFAST, Northern Ireland — Police investigating a series of attacks on Romanian families in Northern Ireland searched houses in Belfast and arrested two teenagers Friday. The Police Service of Northern Ireland said officers searched houses in Donegall Avenue, in a working-class district known as The Village near where the attacks took place.

June 18th, 2009 N. Ireland reporter wins confidentiality claimBELFAST, Northern Ireland — A reporter on Thursday won the right to withhold information from police about her contacts with the Irish Republican Army dissidents who killed two British soldiers in March. A High Court judge ruled that Suzanne Breen, northern editor for the Dublin-based Sunday Tribune newspaper, was entitled to refuse to cooperate with police because that would have put her at risk of death.

May 6th, 2009 Catholic cardinal: IRA dissidents shame IrelandDUBLIN — IRA splinter groups still plotting gun and bomb attacks in Northern Ireland are shaming the people of Ireland and betraying the memory of its patriot dead, the leader of the island's 4 million Catholics declared Wednesday. Cardinal Sean Brady denounced Irish Republican Army dissidents during a state memorial service in honor of the approximately 450 people killed during Dublin's 1916 Easter rebellion, a watershed event in Ireland's fight for independence from Britain.

March 11th, 2009 LONDON - A day after terrorists killed a policeman in Northern Ireland within days of the murder of two soldiers, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Tuesday vowed not to allow dissident gunmen to sink the province into the kind of violence that racked it until a decade ago. 'These are murderers who are trying to distort, disrupt and destroy a political process that is working for the people of Northern Ireland,' Brown declared after a police officer was shot dead Monday night by dissident Catholic terrorists.

March 10th, 2009 LONDON - Two days after the fatal shooting of two British soldiers outside a barracks, a police officer was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Northern Ireland late Monday, authorities said. There was no immediate indication of terrorism in Monday's shooting at a high school in Craigavon in County Armagh.

March 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US Sunday condemned the attack on an army base in Northern Ireland that killed two British soldiers. 'The United States condemns the attack in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, last night that resulted in two deaths and injuries two others,' said a statement released by acting US State Department spokesman Robert Wood.