World : IRA Bombs Damage Belfast Airport
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland — The IRA set off three bombs at a Belfast airport today and claimed responsibility for killing a British soldier in West Germany in what security sources said could be the start of a new guerrilla blitz.
Two prototype aircraft were damaged and control tower windows smashed in the attack on Belfast’s Harbor Airport but no casualties were reported in the pre-dawn blasts. The airport is the second largest in Northern Ireland.
The IRA said in telephone calls to Belfast news organizations that it was also behind the Sunday killing of British Cpl. Steven Smith, 31, by a bomb that blew up his car in Hanover and injured his wife and four children standing nearby. Smith was the first British soldier since 1980 to die in West Germany at the hands of the IRA.
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