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(Reuters) Scary Real IRA claims responsibility for killing two British soldiers. Fake IRA still looking for their lucky charms   (reuters.com) divider line 140
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Poop_Master_Flex 2009-03-08 07:30:03 PM  
I hope the IRA makes a strong comeback. Mine has lost 40% of its value since last September.

 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] 2009-03-08 08:38:26 PM  
Poop_Master_Flex: I hope the IRA makes a strong comeback. Mine has lost 40% of its value since last September.

I, for one, am more terrified of the Real 401(k).

 
Spunkemeyer 2009-03-08 09:48:48 PM  
Any word from the militant wing of The Salvation Army?

 
CaesarSneezy 2009-03-08 09:49:59 PM  
Poop_Master_Flex: I hope the IRA makes a strong comeback. Mine has lost 40% of its value since last September.

Mine's binn fein.

 
lokidecat [TotalFark] 2009-03-08 09:51:36 PM  
Bunch of pussies and their guerrilla warfare.

/sigh
//75% irish
///(gets a beer)

 
Wareq 2009-03-08 09:51:54 PM  
Could they have a Roth IRA? Only if they got enough Jews, I guess.

 
tagjim 2009-03-08 09:51:56 PM  
Poop_Master_Flex: I hope the IRA makes a strong comeback. Mine has lost 40% of its value since last September.

NewportBarGuy: Poop_Master_Flex: I hope the IRA makes a strong comeback. Mine has lost 40% of its value since last September.

I, for one, am more terrified of the Real 401(k).


Spunkemeyer: Any word from the militant wing of The Salvation Army?

HAHA! It's funny! People dying is so FUNNY!

 
Pegasus_CAG 2009-03-08 09:52:25 PM  
My IRA is in the shiatter.

 
GungFu 2009-03-08 09:52:31 PM  
The American-Irish community is happy their donations are demonstratively helping terrorists freedom fighters.

 
CaesarSneezy 2009-03-08 09:53:13 PM  
tagjim: Poop_Master_Flex: I hope the IRA makes a strong comeback. Mine has lost 40% of its value since last September.

NewportBarGuy: Poop_Master_Flex: I hope the IRA makes a strong comeback. Mine has lost 40% of its value since last September.

I, for one, am more terrified of the Real 401(k).

Spunkemeyer: Any word from the militant wing of The Salvation Army?

HAHA! It's funny! People dying is so FUNNY!


Hi, this site is called Fark. Stay a while.

 
Steigen 2009-03-08 09:54:30 PM  
Well, the British still shouldn't be there.

 
SpaceButler [TotalFark] 2009-03-08 09:55:03 PM  
tagjim: HAHA! It's funny! People dying is so FUNNY!

Welcome. You must be new here.

/Juan Moore missing
//..we're all going to hell

 
trapped-in-CH 2009-03-08 09:57:29 PM  
I thought the IRA had disbanded. goes to show what I know.

 
derbtastic 2009-03-08 09:58:47 PM  
Anyone care to inform me (since the article didn't see fit, and I'm lazy) how long it's been since an IRA attack in the UK? I thought things had been calm in the last 3 years.

 
Relatively Obscure [TotalFark] 2009-03-08 09:59:31 PM  
lokidecat: Bunch of pussies and their guerrilla warfare.

www.vermonthistory.org

Approv--oh wait


/These guys suck anyway, though.




 
Relatively Obscure [TotalFark] 2009-03-08 10:01:58 PM  
derbtastic: Anyone care to inform me (since the article didn't see fit, and I'm lazy) how long it's been since an IRA attack in the UK? I thought things had been calm in the last 3 years.

This isn't "the IRA."

www.peakoil.org.au


This is "the REAL IRA."

www.peakoil.org.au

 
w_houle 2009-03-08 10:03:42 PM  
tagjim: Poop_Master_Flex: I hope the IRA makes a strong comeback. Mine has lost 40% of its value since last September.

NewportBarGuy: Poop_Master_Flex: I hope the IRA makes a strong comeback. Mine has lost 40% of its value since last September.

I, for one, am more terrified of the Real 401(k).

Spunkemeyer: Any word from the militant wing of The Salvation Army?

HAHA! It's funny! People dying is so FUNNY!


Really didn't notice until I got to you... then I LOL'd

 
AnotherDeadBard 2009-03-08 10:04:02 PM  
trapped-in-CH: I thought the IRA had disbanded. goes to show what I know.

The Real IRA split from the IRA (along with the Provos) sometime in the eighties, iirc. Ultra-militants, no negotiation, English out of all Ireland, that sort of thing, and there's been a bit of blood between the IRA/Sinn Finn (sp?) and the splinters. Could be fuzzy on the details, but that's the short version.

 
Donnchadha [TotalFark] 2009-03-08 10:04:15 PM  
NewportBarGuy: Poop_Master_Flex: I hope the IRA makes a strong comeback. Mine has lost 40% of its value since last September.

I, for one, am more terrified of the Real 401(k).


This. Definitely this.

I mean, the KKK is pretty bad, but the KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK ...gasp...
KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK ...inhale...
KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK ...now I know why they abbriviate...
KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK is so much worse.

 
FiatJustitia 2009-03-08 10:05:21 PM  
Not surprised, story started out with:

BELFAST (Reuters) -


kinda like starting one with

TEL-AVIV (Reuters) -


I'd advocate a "glass parking lot" scenario if Ireland wasn't so purdy.

 
Spunkemeyer 2009-03-08 10:06:28 PM  
HAHA! It's funny! People dying is so FUNNY!

Sand, vagina, etc. etc.

 
w_houle 2009-03-08 10:07:05 PM  
... anywho...
"The Real IRA, a splinter group from the Irish Republican Army..."
The Ulster haven't been up to shenanigans that I know of, so listen Plenny O'Toole cut it the fark out!

 
SweetHomeNowhere 2009-03-08 10:07:35 PM  
Today's British Army can't even handle guerilla warfare in any ways. So this will look fun.

 
queezyweezel 2009-03-08 10:08:19 PM  
GungFu: The American-Irish community is happy their donations are demonstratively helping terrorists freedom fighters.

The Real IRA are nothing like the original IRA. Read some books.

 
Tinners 2009-03-08 10:08:28 PM  
AnotherDeadBard: trapped-in-CH: I thought the IRA had disbanded. goes to show what I know.

The Real IRA split from the IRA (along with the Provos) sometime in the eighties, iirc. Ultra-militants, no negotiation, English out of all Ireland, that sort of thing, and there's been a bit of blood between the IRA/Sinn Finn (sp?) and the splinters. Could be fuzzy on the details, but that's the short version.



Pretty much, the PIRA disbanded, the RIRA and CIRA are still about, and have been active for a while. The RIRA carried out the Omagh bombing as well.

They've been trying to kill a security forces member for a while now, recently they fired an RPG at a group of police, shot another in the arm, shot one while dropping his kids off at school, blew a police officers car up and tried to set off a 300lb bomb at an army base.

 
NannerPuss 2009-03-08 10:09:16 PM  
tagjim: Poop_Master_Flex: I hope the IRA makes a strong comeback. Mine has lost 40% of its value since last September.

NewportBarGuy: Poop_Master_Flex: I hope the IRA makes a strong comeback. Mine has lost 40% of its value since last September.

I, for one, am more terrified of the Real 401(k).

Spunkemeyer: Any word from the militant wing of The Salvation Army?

HAHA! It's funny! People dying is so FUNNY!


Welcome to fark. Slainte!

 
Lizardking 2009-03-08 10:09:21 PM  
tagjim: HAHA! It's funny! People dying is so FUNNY!

You're either really new here or a good troll. Time will tell

 
PersistantRash 2009-03-08 10:09:49 PM  
anyone else for putting Catholics in the same solar rocket as teh muslims, they can have themselves a little holy war while they wait for the temp to rise.

/also should send fistfighting bhuddists, Hindi Fundi's, Grunth addicted Seihks who whup their wives, Bible humping christians with two car garages, ufologists, scientologists and anyone else I don't like. (so CALM teachers and NHS administrators as well)

 
Tinners 2009-03-08 10:10:03 PM  
queezyweezel: GungFu: The American-Irish community is happy their donations are demonstratively helping terrorists freedom fighters.

The Real IRA are nothing like the original IRA. Read some books.


The original IRA from the 1900s? Yeah they are different from them.

The American funded IRA from the 70s-00s? Same people.

 
Feltonl 2009-03-08 10:10:04 PM  
I blame Clay Morrow and the SOA.

 
TMBGfreak 2009-03-08 10:10:14 PM  
FiatJustitia: Not surprised, story started out with:

BELFAST (Reuters) -


kinda like starting one with

TEL-AVIV (Reuters) -


I'd advocate a "glass parking lot" scenario if Ireland wasn't so purdy.


Eh, as far as my understanding goes, 9/11 pretty much destroyed any resistance in the North because all the American sources of funding out of Boston dried up because people all of a sudden saw terrorism as bad (go figure). Been pretty peaceful since then.

/Been considering a move to the Republic
//Their pharma sector is still relatively stable

 
Ikahoshi 2009-03-08 10:10:33 PM  
Steigen: Well, the British still shouldn't be there.

Right... because the majority of voters in Northern Ireland don't count, when they say they'd rather remain part of the U.K.

It's a big fat power struggle power over a population and a piece of land. When that sort of nonsense happens, I defer to the people who live there to make the decision- and from what I understand, they have.

0% Irish except perhaps when drinking Guinness.

 
SchlingFocker [TotalFark] 2009-03-08 10:11:40 PM  
IRA = what we'd be had we lost the Revolutionary War.

 
Tinners 2009-03-08 10:14:47 PM  
Ikahoshi: Steigen: Well, the British still shouldn't be there.

Right... because the majority of voters in Northern Ireland don't count, when they say they'd rather remain part of the U.K.

It's a big fat power struggle power over a population and a piece of land. When that sort of nonsense happens, I defer to the people who live there to make the decision- and from what I understand, they have.

0% Irish except perhaps when drinking Guinness.


Sssh, don't try and use logic in these kind of arguments.

The British army in NI is minimal now, it just maintains a few bases, same as in Scotland, Wales and England. Since 2007 the army are no longer used to support the Police, they no longer go out on patrol, the RAF is no longer used to ferry Police around.

This was just a Royal Engineers base, they were prepping to deploy to Afghanistan in a few days.

 
tinyarena 2009-03-08 10:15:32 PM  
They should have read the papers more. These days, the world has a very bad reaction to these types of attacks.

I would guess they will get a lot more attention then they bargained for.

 
wineguy 2009-03-08 10:15:38 PM  
tagjim:
HAHA! It's funny! People dying is so FUNNY!


i182.photobucket.com

 
Smeggy Smurf 2009-03-08 10:16:21 PM  
Feltonl: I blame Clay Morrow and the SOA.

I blame Clay Aiken.

 
beoswulf 2009-03-08 10:16:46 PM  
lokidecat: Bunch of pussies and their guerrilla warfare.

/sigh
//75% irish
///(gets a beer)


Yeah, it's pretty embarrassing behavior you'd expect from ass backwards people in the Middle East. but then I've heard sentiments from my own family how every Irish bar in the states took contributions for the other IRA fund. Just as bad as how mosques today collect money for Hamas, Heballah and Taliban associated groups.

 
dennysgod 2009-03-08 10:17:33 PM  
GungFu: The American-Irish community is happy their donations are demonstratively helping terrorists freedom fighters.

Of course their freedom fighter, their white, only non-white rebels are called terrorist.

 
Demon of the Fall 2009-03-08 10:18:18 PM  
I am guessing the Irish will not be appreciative of any sort of destabilization given the shaky financial shape that island is in at the moment.

 
GungFu 2009-03-08 10:18:33 PM  
queezyweezel: GungFu: The American-Irish community is happy their donations are demonstratively helping terrorists freedom fighters.

The Real IRA are nothing like the original IRA. Read some books.




Oh, please, pray tell just how significantly different they are from all the books you have read.

Shiat, you might as well tell me to do a wiki or some such.

upload.wikimedia.org
This red Vauxhall Cavalier saloon contained the explosive during the Omagh bombing. This photo itself was taken shortly before the explosion and the camera was found afterwards in the rubble.

www.silverbearcafe.com
The Real IRA helping with Omagh's town planning.

/You farking idiot.

 
Barakku [TotalFark] 2009-03-08 10:20:49 PM  
Spunkemeyer: HAHA! It's funny! People dying is so FUNNY!

Sand, vagina, etc. etc.


Glass farking lot?

 
Brainmask 2009-03-08 10:21:51 PM  
SchlingFocker: IRA = what we'd be had we lost the Revolutionary War.

Drug dealers fighting for unification with the Republic of Ireland?

I need to read more American History.

 
The Rest Are Bait [TotalFark] 2009-03-08 10:24:02 PM  
Did the "Real IRA" feel left out after the latest Israeli/Hamas war grabbed the front page and the Tamil Tiger/Sri Lankan army blow-up grabbed the inside pages? Poor IRA, hopefully this useless killing got it out of their system.

 
jonny_ill 2009-03-08 10:24:54 PM  
will the Real IRA please blow up? please blow up?

 
Demon of the Fall 2009-03-08 10:26:35 PM  
Doesn't the Good Friday agreement have a provision that says North Ireland will be unified with the Republic of Ireland whenever the majority of the North favours union? The RIRA should be spending its efforts on better propaganda and less bullshiat attacks.

 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark] 2009-03-08 10:26:38 PM  
tagjim: Poop_Master_Flex: I hope the IRA makes a strong comeback. Mine has lost 40% of its value since last September.

NewportBarGuy: Poop_Master_Flex: I hope the IRA makes a strong comeback. Mine has lost 40% of its value since last September.

I, for one, am more terrified of the Real 401(k).

Spunkemeyer: Any word from the militant wing of The Salvation Army?

HAHA! It's funny! People dying is so FUNNY!


Such humorlessness is why we can't have nice things.

 
HighOnCraic 2009-03-08 10:29:33 PM  
TMBGfreak: FiatJustitia: Not surprised, story started out with:

BELFAST (Reuters) -


kinda like starting one with

TEL-AVIV (Reuters) -


I'd advocate a "glass parking lot" scenario if Ireland wasn't so purdy.

Eh, as far as my understanding goes, 9/11 pretty much destroyed any resistance in the North because all the American sources of funding out of Boston dried up because people all of a sudden saw terrorism as bad (go figure). Been pretty peaceful since then.

/Been considering a move to the Republic
//Their pharma sector is still relatively stable


From what I heard, the various factions in the North are mainly fighting over control of the, um, pharma sector (and gasoline bootlegging). They're like a shorter, paler version of the Bloods and the Cribs.

/Not Irish.
//Just lived there.
///They all look alike to me.

 
Ikahoshi 2009-03-08 10:30:12 PM  
TMBGfreak:Eh, as far as my understanding goes, 9/11 pretty much destroyed any resistance in the North because all the American sources of funding out of Boston dried up because people all of a sudden saw terrorism as bad (go figure). Been pretty peaceful since then.

/Been considering a move to the Republic
//Their pharma sector is still relatively stable

Maybe that was part of it, but from what I understand, local autonomy is what killed the IRA. London created a local parliament, which was then given authority to deal with local issues, as well as have a seat at the table regarding any Ireland-UK discussions.

For the majority of folks, that's what they wanted, and the IRA saw the local support for "military" action dry up.

 
HighOnCraic 2009-03-08 10:31:28 PM  
SweetHomeNowhere: Today's British Army can't even handle guerilla warfare in any ways. So this will look fun.

They have to wear red and march in a straight line.

/They lost the coin toss.
//Probably not obscure.

 
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