Test Exercise? Riiight. (1 Viewer)

[pete]

A 49-year-old man has been arrested following the discovery of explosive material in a flat on Dorset Street in Dublin.


RTÉ News has learned that the commercial explosive was illegally brought into the country as part of a security operation by another country.


It is understood the man and the explosives ended up in Ireland as part of a test exercise which appears to have gone wrong.


Gardaí received a phone call this morning from a security service abroad, telling them that a man was in a flat in Dorset St with around 100g of commercial explosive.


The adjoining homes and businesses were evacuated, roads were closed and the Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit removed the explosive for further analysis.



The Departments of Justice and Foreign Affairs have been informed and the incident will be dealt with through diplomatic channels.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0105/dorset.html

no mention of the foreign security service angle from the irish times - http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0105/breaking39.htm

So... Mossad?

 

[orange pekoe]

Bet you it's bluetac.

 

[Froog]

bizarre, what possible reason could a foreign secret service have for an excercise with explosives in ireland? "let's test our agents against the toughest security force in the world, the gardai sioachana!"

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

So... Mossad?

Perfidious Albion.

 

[Lepra]

bizarre, what possible reason could a foreign secret service have for an excercise with explosives in ireland? "let's test our agents against the toughest security force in the world, the gardai sioachana!"

tested in Ireland, practiced in Britain.

 

[ratmonkey]

So... Mossad?

Hardly, I doubt they'd bother telling the gardaí.

 

[Lili Marlene]

damn foreigners

 

[ratmonkey]

The Vatican?

 

[theoootini]

 

[FiFi_LaRue]

Slovakian man arrested and subsequently released, according to d'radio.

 

[D0njo]

Weird... di yis hear about this one? -

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1130/mountjoy.html

Loaded gun taken from man outside jail

 

[pete]

A quantity of explosive, found in a flat on Dorset Street in Dublin this morning, was brought into the country following a failed security operation in Slovakia.
It is understood the explosive was one of eight pieces of contraband planted by the authorities in the luggage of unsuspecting passengers at Bratislava Airport in Slovakia last weekend as part of a test of security procedures.


Seven were detected by airport security, but the eighth - 90g of research development explosive or RDX - was put in the luggage of a Slovakian electrician who lives and works in Dublin.


The 49-year-old unwittingly brought the material to Dublin when he returned from Christmas holidays.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0105/dorset.html


"oops"

 

[ann post]

So... Mossad?

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[7 - No tomorrow]

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0105/dorset.html


"oops"

An electrician?

Did they give out his number?

 

[binky]

An electrician?

Did they give out his number?

"I am have looking at your fuze box.

Is no good. You are having the cowboy in there.

Am sorry but now I must to explosion your home."

 

[washingcattle]

I wonder exactly how much unrecovered training exercise explosives are left lying around in lost luggage sections of airports then.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

reminds me of this

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/459816

 

[pete]

the slovaks are none too pleased

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0106/breaking44.htm

 

[Jim Daniels]

the slovaks are none too pleased

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0106/breaking44.htm

"The statement from the Slovakian Ministry of the Interior continued that the pilot sent a telex to the authorities in Dublin informing them of the situation"

Ha! Do they still exist!

 

[flashback]

"The statement from the Slovakian Ministry of the Interior continued that the pilot sent a telex to the authorities