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01/11/2010
International Airport Bomb 'A Year Old'
Just over a week after a royal visit to Belfast's main airport, Army bomb experts were called in at the weekend to examine a suspicious vehicle left at the long-stay car park.
Now - just over a day later - it has emerged that the device may actually have been at Belfast International Airport's car park for as long as 12 months.
The PSNI said they are now investigating a line of enquiry that the car involved may have been parked there since 2009.
During the alert, on Saturday, Aldergrove flights were not affected, but some passengers were unable to get home without their cars as the area was sealed off from around 2.30pm on until the alert ended at 2am on Sunday.
The vehicle was removed for examination and the PSNI said that a suspected flammable liquid was found along with a viable device - thought to have been a pipe bomb.
Earlier, detectives appealed to anyone who noticed the grey Toyota Carina, registration number PDZ 2001, to contact them.
Saturday night's alert followed a separate bomb find in Lurgan's Tullydagan Road.
Army technical officers carried out a number of controlled explosions on a 40kgs device in a beer keg under a railway bridge.
Both incidents are being blamed on dissident factors of the republican movement.
It is believed neither outrage was linked to bombs left on US-bound cargo planes on Friday, which are suspected to be the work of international terrorists.
See: Belfast International Airport Gets Royal Boost
(BMcC/GK)
Now - just over a day later - it has emerged that the device may actually have been at Belfast International Airport's car park for as long as 12 months.
The PSNI said they are now investigating a line of enquiry that the car involved may have been parked there since 2009.
During the alert, on Saturday, Aldergrove flights were not affected, but some passengers were unable to get home without their cars as the area was sealed off from around 2.30pm on until the alert ended at 2am on Sunday.
The vehicle was removed for examination and the PSNI said that a suspected flammable liquid was found along with a viable device - thought to have been a pipe bomb.
Earlier, detectives appealed to anyone who noticed the grey Toyota Carina, registration number PDZ 2001, to contact them.
Saturday night's alert followed a separate bomb find in Lurgan's Tullydagan Road.
Army technical officers carried out a number of controlled explosions on a 40kgs device in a beer keg under a railway bridge.
Both incidents are being blamed on dissident factors of the republican movement.
It is believed neither outrage was linked to bombs left on US-bound cargo planes on Friday, which are suspected to be the work of international terrorists.
See: Belfast International Airport Gets Royal Boost
(BMcC/GK)
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