Alternative Ulster

Loyalist gunmen opened fire on police and soliders for the second night running on the streets of Belfast.

At least seven police officers were injured in the new wave of violence as petrol, blast and paint bombs were thrown at security lines drawn on the Albertbridge Road in the east of the city.

Police said a number of shots were also fired at them on the nearby Newtownards Road, and at the Army on the Donegall Road, south Belfast.

Elsewhere, a blast bomb exploded at the gates of New Barnsley Police Station in west Belfast, causing minor damage.

Cars and vans were hijacked and set on fire throughout the city, while in Bangor, Co Down a bus was burnt out by men who robbed passengers and ordered them out.

Plastic bullets and water canons were directed at rioters who set a bank and shops alight at Cloughfern, Newtownabbey, just outside north Belfast.

So far the story reads like an Iraq newspiece.

1,000 police deployed
1,000 soldiers deployed
50 police injured
Petrol bombs thrown
Blast bombs thrown
Pipe bombs thrown
Shots fired at police
Seven firearms recovered
Up to 500 plastic bullets fired
Bomb factory found
Water cannon deployed
Cars and buses hijacked
One man shot by Army
Man critical after bomb blast

As Mike Power points out,

Orangemen not Brown men

Automatic weapons, a bomb factory, deliberate attempts to kill police.

Good job they weren't Muslims.

I wonder if Charles bothers to mention this story wether he will bother mentioning the fact that these men are terrorists (UDA, UFF and others) or that the cause of the problem was militant Orangemen, a Protestant organisation? Or is he going to stick to the Coulter-esque mantra that 'all terrorists are Muslim'?