David Ford MLA, Leader of the Alliance Party

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 David Ford

Minister condemns car bomb attack

1.19.00pm GMT Fri 23rd Apr 2010

David Ford MLA outside Parliament Buildings, Stormont. Photography: Michael Carchrie Campbell

Justice Minister David Ford

Justice Minister David Ford has condemned those behind a car bomb attack on Newtownhamilton police station.

He said: "This was not just an attack on the people of Newtownhamilton, but on the wider political process and it will be condemned across the community.

"With the progress that has been made in Northern Ireland, people will be asking who are Dissident Republicans fighting now? Are they fighting the notion of self government on a scale never seen before in Northern Ireland? Are they fighting representatives from across this community who form the Northern Ireland Executive or are they fighting the people from all parts of the community who make up the police service?

"Those who planted this bomb want to drag Northern Ireland back to the dark days of murder and mayhem, they want to undermine the political process, they want politics to fail. I am determined that we will all continue to stand together so that they will not succeed."

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