Loyalists attempt to kill community worker
Sinn Féin councillor Danny Lavery is accusing the UDA of being behind an attempt to kill a community worker in the Whitewell area of North Belfast on Tuesday 14 August.
According to Lavery, the RUC arrived at the door of the community worker and informed him that a loyalist group had said they threw a pipe bomb at him in an attempt to kill him. The man knew nothing about any such attack, but some time later a pipe bomb was found in the garden of a house that he had visited.
``The man is clearly shocked at this attack. He is a respected community worker and this attack was an attempt to kill him,'' said Lavery, who blamed the UDA.
Meanwhile, the home of a Catholic family in Ingledale Gardens in the Upper Crumlin Road was targeted by loyalist bombers. A pipe bomb exploded in their garden of the house at 11.45pm on Tuesday 14 August.
No one was injured and the house suffered some damage in an attack that is being blamed on the UDA.
These latest attacks came just hours before Sinn Féin's Alex Maskey released a report documenting some 200 attacks on Catholics and nationalists by loyalists paramilitaries this year.
Said Maskey: ``The report lists almost 200 attacks and will be distributed to TDs, MPs, journalists, Senators and Congress members in the US, and other political parties as a way of highlighting the extent of the campaign of Catholics across the North.''
Portadown RUC stunt
Portadown Sinn Féin councillor Brian McKeown has accused the RUC of engaging in a PR stunt in the area. The force is attempting to set up a `community and police liaison' committee.
According to McKeown, the RUC are trying to entice nationalists in the area to become part of this forum. ``At this time, when both the Sinn Féin and SDLP leaderships are expressing grave public dissatisfaction with the failure of the British government to implement the Patten Report, it is highly questionable that the RUC would push ahead with this idea,'' he said.
McKeown called on political and community representatives in the area to refuse to be taken in by this RUC scheme and to call for the full implementation of the Patten Report.
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