DUBLIN — British army experts defused a 600-pound(275-kilogram) van bomb Saturday on the Northern Irelandborder, the largest such bomb in more than a year linked toIrish Republican Army die-hards.
British army experts defused the homemade bomb two days after a passing motorist told police about theabandoned van on a border road near thepredominantly Catholic town of Newry, a hub for IRA activity. Police and soldiers took more than a day to search the surrounding area, fearful of a potential IRA ambush, before moving in.
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Newry’s police commander, Chief Superintendent Alasdair Robinson, said the bomb was “a very significant device. If this had exploded, it would have caused devastation.”
Robinson said the bomb — two explosives-filled barrels attached to adetonator and power-timer unit — was fully assembled, viable and big enough to cause major damage to a town center. He said anybody within 50 yards (meters) of thebomb would probably have been killed had it exploded.
He said the attackersmight have abandoned the bomb short of their intended target after encountering a police patrol ahead, as has happened several times previously when IRA dissidents tried to drive car bombs into town centers.
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600-pound(275-kilogram)!!!
God Save the Queen!

I am going to bet it was the CIA trying to create a reason for the US to invade Northern Ireland.

Ireland - CIA - The World Factbook.
Natural resources :
natural gas, peat, copper, lead, zinc, silver, barite, gypsum, limestone, dolomite.

where is the Oil?
But,damn,that thing sure could have done some damage!