For The Record

WED. JANUARY 31, 2001: A pipe-bomb was thrown through the window of a nationalist woman’s car on Alliance Road in north Belfast. She held the device in her hand but it failed to explode.

Members of staff at the Mater Hospital in Belfast were notified by the RUC that they were under threat from a loyalist death squad.

THURS. FEBRUARY 1, 2001: Two explosive devices exploded outside homes close to each other in Loughside Drive in Ballinahinch, Co Down.

FRI. FEBRUARY 2, 2001: Local residents reported that an eight-man British army patrol based at Belleek, Co Fermanagh crossed the Border into Cloghroe in Co Donegal.

The Whitecliff Inn on Chester Avenue, Whitehead, Co Antrim was targeted by loyalist death squad members when a pipe-bomb was thrown at the pub. It failed to explode.

SAT. FEBRUARY 3, 2001: The RUC seized pipe-bomb parts during a search of derelict houses in the Fairway area of the Antiville Estate, Larne, Co Antrim. Parts of 11 bombs were discovered as well as a balaclava and surgical gloves.

SUN FEBRUARY 4, 2001: A nationalist family escaped injury when a pipe-bomb was thrown through the window of their home in Upper Meadow Street, in the New Lodge area of Belfast. The couple and their three children were not injured.

In Newcastle, Co Down a 24-year-old woman and a 25-year-old man were injured in a pipe-bomb attack on their car, which was parked at the rear of a house at Ballaghbeg Park. The two were approaching their car when the device exploded.

MON. FEBRUARY 5, 2001: A nationalist family from Estoril Park in the Ardoyne area of Belfast was set to move after a pipe-bomb was found in a plant-pot at the base of the front living room window. The father-of-three was a former Republican prisoner.

Four Co Cork men charged with the unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition were remanded to appear again in a court. At Mallow District Court Sean Kind from Passage West, Walter Nagle from Midleton and Michael Nugent from Ballyvolane, were remanded on continuing bail to appear at Mitchelstown District Court on March 2. The fourth man, Kieran Kiely from Youghal, was remanded in continuing custody to appear at Mitchelstown District Court on February 16. All four face charges arising from the discovery of firearms by 26-County police in a vehicle at Mitchelstown, Co Cork and were believed to be members of the Provisionals.

TUES. FEBRUARY 6, 2001: British troops were brought back onto the streets of north Belfast ostensibly to combat the wave of pipe bomb attacks on nationalists in that part of the city.

A mother and her son escaped injury when a device exploded in the living room of their house in Laharna Avenue, Larne, Co Antrim.

A man, believed to be originally from the Shankill area was injured when shots were fired into a house at Castlerobin Road on the Belvoir estate in south Belfast.

At Bushmills, County Antrim, a man escaped injury when four shots were fired through the living room window and front door of his home on the Dunluce Road.

WED. FEBRUARY 7, 2001: Anthony McIntyre of the Irish Republican Writers Group was physically attacked and injured by one of the leading participants in the recent Provisional-led pickets on his home. While leaving his house to walk to the cornershop for milk and a newspaper, a car pulled up and its occupant attacked and physically assaulted him. Before being restrained by witnesses to the attack, the assailant threatened Anthony McIntyre by saying "I’ll put one in your head."

The home of Barrie Bradbury, his partner Sylvia and their son was targeted in a pipe bomb attack which caused scorch damage when it exploded on the doorstep at Donard Park in Lurgan, County Armagh.

In Derry a family escaped injury when a pipe bomb left under a car at their home in George’s Street in the predominantly loyalist Fountain area of the city struck a wall, partially exploded and rolled under their parked car. A British Army bomb disposal expert later made the device safe.

Members of a nationalist family escaped injury when shots were fired into their home on the Seacliff Road in Larne.

A pipe-bomb was thrown through the kitchen window of the home of William McCambridge, in the Roddens area of Larne, Co Antrim. He escaped the attack with his wife and family.

A 53-year-old nationalist workman in Dungannon, Co Tyrone was climbing into a digger on a Moygashel building site when a bomb exploded. He was rushed to Craigavon hospital and was treated for serious facial injuries and described as in a ‘stable’ condition.

No-one was injured in two pipe-bomb attacks on nationalist homes in Limavady, Co Derry. One device exploded in the front garden of a house at Eventide Gardens, the other at a house on Edenmore Park.

A crudely-made explosive device was thrown at a house at Gortnasor, Dungannon, Co Tyrone. A garage window was blown out and a parked car was damaged when a firework with nails taped to it exploded. No one was injured.

Components for making 11 pipe-bombs were found by the RUC in Carrickfergus. Co Antrim.

THURS. FEBRUARY 8, 2001: St Matthew’s Catholic Church in the Short Strand area of east Belfast was believed to have been the target of a pipe-bomb which fell short and landed outside a pensioner’s house.

In Donaghmore, Co Tyrone a pipe-bomb was thrown at the front door of the home of a nationalist couple and their nine children. The device exploded but the couple managed to put out the fire.

FRI. FEBRUARY 9, 2001: A nail bomb exploded outside the home of an elderly pensioner, shattering the front windows of her flat in Bryson Street in east Belfast.

SAT. FEBRUARY 10, 2001: A nationalist couple and their two nieces narrowly escaped injury when a device exploded in their home in the predominately loyalist Waterside area of Derry.

The home of a Protestant woman in the loyalist Belvoir estate in south Belfast was attacked when two shots were fired at the front door of a flat on the Castlerobin Road.

It was reported that British soldiers have returned to the streets in Limavady, Co Derry.

SUN. FEBRUARY 11, 2001: Concerns for staff safety were raised after what appeared to have been a loyalist attempt to abduct a nationalist man. The man was on his way to work when two cars maneuvered in front and behind him on the Antrim Road. Two men got out of the cars and the nationalist man left his car and ran towards Lincoln Street to escape.

A pipe-bomb factory was discovered in the Mount Vernon area of north Belfast which was linked to the loyalist death squad the Ulster Volunteer Force.

A bomb exploded at the rear of a house in Alliance Avenue, Belfast which backs on to the loyalist Glenbryne estate. Nationalist Hugh McInally was one of three people asleep upstairs when the device exploded, ripping the back door off its hinges and smashing windows at the rear of the house. Windows in a neighbour’s house, a pensioner who lives alone, were also damaged. Nellie Classon described hearing a noise and looking out a back window only seconds before the device exploded, showering the upstairs bathroom with glass.

MON. FEBRUARY 12, 2001: Around 300 members of the Orange Order, many of them wearing masks, blockaded the town centre end of Garvaghy Road. The Orange protesters then moved on to Craigwell Avenue, which leads to the nationalist Obins Street and where loyalists have in the past attacked nationalist homes.

A 33-year-old leading loyalist, who has links with the PUP, was wounded in a gun attack in Ballymoney, Co Antrim. The victim and two friends were approached by two gunmen after they left a house off the Finboy Road. One of the men opened fire and hit his target in the right leg before fleeing in a blue Honda car. The attack was believed to be part of ongoing inter-loyalist tensions.

In the County Antrim village of Broughshane, a bomb was thrown at the home of a nationalist family in Artouges Park. Fortunately, the living room window was double-glazed and the device bounced off and back into the garden, where it failed to explode. The family were in the living room at the time celebrating the school exam success of one of their children.

In a second pipe bomb attack in the village just minutes later, a device smashed through the window of a house in the Commons area. The couple, who were both Protestant, may have been targeted by loyalists because one of them comes from the 26 Counties.

Two men and a woman escaped injury when shots were fired through a window of a house in Rossdale Road in the Four Winds area of south Belfast. It is believed that the attack was the work of a loyalist death squad. The RUC found a shotgun and several cartridges in nearby Finsbury Crescent.

A mortar similar to that used in an attack on Ebrington Barracks in Derry in January was found by the 26-County police in a wooded area near Newtowncunningham, Co Donegal.

The Belfast/Dublin railway line was damaged by an explosive device which detonated on a section of the line near Killeavy, south Armagh.

TUES. FEBRUARY 13, 2001: The start of a major police recruitment campaign in Northern Ireland had been delayed because agreement had not been reached among the pro-Stormont Agreement parties.

Cliodhna Magee, a four-year-old nationalist girl escaped injury when she picked up a pipe-bomb in the garden of her home in the Springfield Road area of west Belfast. She carried it into her home and her mother immediately removed it to the front garden.

WED. FEBRUARY 14, 2001: The leadership of the loyalist death squad the Ulster Defence Association denied the organisation was involved in pipe-bomb attacks on nationalist families in the Six Counties.

THURS. FEBRUARY 15, 2001: A man and a woman were arrested in a loyalist part of Newtownabbey, Co Antrim after three pipe bombs were discovered by the RUC.A number of houses were evacuated in Newtownabbey, just outside south Belfast, while British army bomb disposal experts examined the area.

A man was arrested when suspicious objects were found in Blythe Street in the loyalist Sandy Row area of Belfast.

In Derry nationalist and loyalist youths clashed and then attacked the RUC. A petrol bomb was thrown at an RUC Land-Rover.

MON. FEBRUARY 19, 2001: In Limavady, Co Derry, nationalist homes in Eventide Gardens and Edenmore Park were targeted in pipe-bomb attacks.

The Terrorism Act 2000 came into law giving power to the British government to outlaw groups considered to "channel funds and recruits to terrorist organisations". Existing ‘counter-terrorist legislation’ applies to the North of Ireland and was largely rushed into effect in 1974 after 19 people died as a result of a pub bomb in Birmingham. This new legislation will broaden the definition of ‘terrorism’ to include such offences as disruption of power or computer systems; fund-raising for ‘banned groups’; possessing information "which is likely to be useful to terrorists,"; posting weapons-making instructions on the Internet; wearing a T-shirt promoting a banned group; and speaking at a ‘terrorist meeting’. A suspected terrorist may be arrested without a warrant and detained for up to a week without charge.

Amnesty International said that the new Terrorism Act 2000 could lead to breaches of human rights. Amnesty also expressed "serious concern" over the extension of the stop and search powers given to the police, and the extension of the amount of time a suspect can be held without access to a lawyer from 36 to 48 hours. According to Amnesty, the Act shifts the presumption of innocence to the assumption of guilt in situations where an individual has been arrested for the possession of materials that might be used in a terrorist attack.

Darren Purdy (30), a gardener, and his wife, Linda (33), of Carn Crescent, New Mossley, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim appeared at Belfast Magistrates’ Court were charged with possessing pipe-bombs, a revolver and ammunition with intent to endanger life and having a list of names of former republican prisoners.

TUES. FEBRUARY 20, 2001: It was reported that some 1,500 complaints have been made against the RUC since Nuala O’Loan, the British Police Ombudsman of ‘Northern Ireland’, started her work. Half of these complaints alleged assaults by officers, 22 per cent alleged an officer’s failure of duty and 11 per cent alleged incivility by an officer. Malpractice allegations accounted for 2 per cent of complaints. The office started work just over three months ago.

WED. FEBRUARY 21, 2001: An explosion at a British army Territorial base in west London resulted in a 14-year-old cadet’s hand being blown off. The base also houses the Fourth Battalion Parachute Regiment 10 (London) Company.

THURS. FEBRUARY 22, 2001: A major security alert was triggered following a telephone call to a Belfast newsroom from a man claiming to represent the ‘Irish Freedom Fighters’ and saying that two devices had been left at Boundary Way in the Shankill area and at Ross Flats in the Mount Vernon area of Belfast. Nothing was found.

FRI. FEBRUARY 23, 2001: Five pipe-bombs were found by the RUC in Cloughmills, Co Antrim.

A north Belfast taxi rank was targeted in a pipe-bomb attack.

SAT. FEBRUARY 24, 2001: Shots were fired through the front door of a couple at Nansen Street, off the Falls Road, Belfast. No one was injured.

MON. FEBRUARY 26, 2001: It was reported that computer print-outs and a disk found with a haul of pipe-bombs in Belfast and attributed to the UVF loyalist death squad contained the names of 300 Republicans. In a separate find a package of 150 names, addresses and some photographs of former Republican prisoners was discovered in a raid in north Belfast. Documents listed vehicle numbers, particulars of the individuals and their date of release from the H-Blocks. Collusion with British Intelligence agencies is likely and the documents found were copies.

TUES. FEBRUARY 27, 2001: A taxi firm belonging to Jackie Mahood, a former member of the PUP, was targeted in a pipe-bomb attack. The device exploded in a downstairs office causing minor damage. The UVF was blamed for the attack.
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