<HTML><PRE>Subj:	 Flash: Bomb at RUC base
Date:	98-02-20 23:31:54 EST
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>>> 'Continuity Army Council' suspected in Moira bomb
    
    
    Seven RUC members and four civilians received minor
    injuries when a bomb devastated the RUC police base in
    the village of Moira, County Down tonight.  A warning
    had been received and the area had been cleared.
    
    The Continuity Army Council, a small new Republican
    paramilitary group opposed to the ceasefire, is thought
    to have carried out the attack. The group formed in 1996
    has previously carried out bombings timed for maximum
    political impact in an open bid to destroy the northern
    peace process.  It is allied to a splinter political
    grouping, 'Republican Sinn Fein', which broke away from 
    Sinn Fein in 1986.
    
    Tonight's attack comes within hours of Sinn Fein's
    suspension from peace talks by the Irish and British
    governments. The decision to exclude the party until
    March 9 followed British accusations that the IRA were
    behind two shootings last week.  An IRA statement had
    insisted that its cesssation of military operations was
    intact.
    
    Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams today described the
    decision to expel his party as "disgraceful",
    "undemocratic" and "a step backwards", but appealed for
    peaceful and disciplined protest against the exclusion.
    No disturbances were reported tonight prior to the
    Moira explosion.
    
    The 500lb bomb which badly damaged the village strongly
    resembles the bombing of an RUC base at Markethill in
    County Armagh, carried out on the first day of the present
    phase of peace talks in October of last year.  The CAC
    most recently planted a similar car bomb at nearby
    Banbridge in County Down, but their device was defused
    by British Army experts.
    
    Unionists have quickly blamed the IRA for tonight's
    explosion, althoough no organisation has yet claimed
    responsibility for the bomb.  The CAC typically make a
    claim some 48 hours following an attack. 


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