Pictured right, a part of a device removed from a car at Shandon Park Golf Club in east Belfast last weekend. One of the two cars involved in the attack was found burnt out in the Ardoyne area of Belfast
The senior officer was lucky to escape with his life after the deadly device was discovered under his vehicle at Shandon Park Golf Club in east Belfast on Saturday afternoon.
The Irish News understands the bomb contained high powered plastic explosives.
The attempted attack was the first carried out by the 'IRA' - which is often referred to as the New IRA - since journalist Lyra McKee was shot dead by the group during a riot in Derry in April.
In a statement issued to the Irish News using a recognised code word and signed T. O'Neill, the 'IRA' said it planted the undercar bomb.
Comment: This was the method the previous iteration of the IRA - the Provisional IRA - used to leak warnings of upcoming attacks. The message being conveyed here is that 'the IRA' is back. Except that it isn't. It substantially ended with the Good Friday Peace Agreement of 1998, and the vast majority of people in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland support this...
Comment: No popular support, direct line to the media, over-the-top terroristic messaging... it sounds like a black-op:
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At this rate, they're going to have The IRA (For Real) back in play by the time Brexit comes to a head again in October this year...Why? Because a 'major national security threat' would justify the threat of reimposing a hard border in Ireland, which would be very useful political currency for the British establishment to have in its arsenal as it attempts the impossible of keeping the UK in the EU and keeping Nigel Farage out of 10 Downing Street...