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What's a Fair Warning When It Comes to Bombs?
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (Feb. 23) -- Northern Ireland's police chief has condemned dissident members of the Irish Republican Army for giving his men less than 20 minutes to clear the center of a town before detonating an explosives-packed car. "The time we got to respond was very limited," Northern Ireland's chief constable, Matt Baggott, told reporters. "It was reckless and callous." The 225-pound car bomb that terrorists rammed into the gates of Court House in Newry, 30 miles southwest of Belfast, on Monday night went off just 17 minutes after police received their first telephone warning. The explosion -- ...
Northern Ireland PM Steps Down Amid Sex Scandal, Imperiling Peace Process
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyIn a story that is getting more bizarre -- and more troubling -- by the moment, Northern Ireland Prime Minister Peter Robinson resigned yesterday amid a financial scandal surrounding his wife's affair with a teenager. The scandal -- which has roiled the country's deeply traditional society -- now threatens to derail its fragile peace process as well. ...
N. Ireland Leader in Scandal to Step Down Temporarily
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON (Jan. 11) -- Northern Ireland's Protestant leader will temporarily step down in the wake of a scandal over his wife's affair with a 19-year-old man, the speaker of the regional assembly said Monday. Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson has been under pressure since it was revealed that his wife, Iris, had a teenage lover whom she helped raise tens of thousands of pounds (dollars) for his business. The revelations have angered Robinson's socially conservative Protestant power base and threaten to undermine the Democratic Unionist Party's partnership with the Catholic Sinn ...
Sex Scandal Captivates Northern Ireland
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(Jan. 9) - A 58-year-old woman named Mrs. Robinson has an affair with a 19-year-old boy toy, with shocking consequences. No, this isn't the plot of 1967 movie "The Graduate," but a real-life political scandal that has gripped Northern Ireland. British media reported Saturday that Iris Robinson -- a member of Britain's parliament since 2001, and the wife of Northern Ireland's leader, First Minister Peter Robinson -- will step down within days, following her confession to cheating on her husband 18 months ago. Mrs. Robinson said in an open letter Wednesday that she started the "brief affair" ...
Hillary's Experience Questioned
By David Knowles - Politics DailyWhen you're running for president and you boast that you have "crossed the threshold" to be commander-in-chief, while your opponent has not, you'd better be prepared for that claim to be examined. On Friday, the Chicago Tribune did just that. Their analysis wasn't exactly in sync with Hillary Clinton's talking points. In fact, it concludes that Clinton's claim of "red-phone" experience rests largely on the time she spent in the White House as first lady. From the Trib:Pressed in a CNN interview this week for specific examples of foreign policy experience that has prepared her for an ...
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