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**carpartsho** · 05-17-2011, 10:51 AM

Military Defuses Bomb in Ireland Ahead of Queen's Historic Visit

Peter Wilkinson, CNN
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May 17, 2011 3:43 a.m. EDT

(CNN) -- Irish military defused a bomb Tuesday on a bus headed to Dublin, ahead of a historic visit by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II to the city.

The military stopped a private bus in Maynooth, evacuated the passengers and found a "viable device" early Tuesday morning, a spokesman for the Irish national police said.

Later Tuesday morning, Irish authorities raced to the scene of a second suspicious device -- but it was later determined to be a hoax.

The British foreign office said the Queen's visit will go ahead as planned.

It is a visit that many in Ireland believed would never happen, and will mark the reconciliation between two neighboring countries that once viewed each with suspicion and hostility.

Ireland's fight to free itself from its former imperial master is likely to form much of the narrative of the visit, the first by a UK monarch to the republic since it gained independence in 1921.

WHOLE STORY........http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe...ex.html?hpt=T1

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carpartsho Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 501 Senior Member	Military Defuses Bomb in Ireland Ahead of Queen's Historic Visit Military Defuses Bomb in Ireland Ahead of Queen's Historic Visit Peter Wilkinson, CNN MORE---------http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/05/17/ireland.uk.queen.visit/index.html?hpt=T1 May 17, 2011 3:43 a.m. EDT (CNN) -- Irish military defused a bomb Tuesday on a bus headed to Dublin, ahead of a historic visit by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II to the city. The military stopped a private bus in Maynooth, evacuated the passengers and found a "viable device" early Tuesday morning, a spokesman for the Irish national police said. Later Tuesday morning, Irish authorities raced to the scene of a second suspicious device -- but it was later determined to be a hoax. The British foreign office said the Queen's visit will go ahead as planned. It is a visit that many in Ireland believed would never happen, and will mark the reconciliation between two neighboring countries that once viewed each with suspicion and hostility. Ireland's fight to free itself from its former imperial master is likely to form much of the narrative of the visit, the first by a UK monarch to the republic since it gained independence in 1921. WHOLE STORY........http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe...ex.html?hpt=T1
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