The British police have confirmed that the IRA claimed responsibility for suspect packages sent to the recruitment centers last week in a coded statement published by a Northern Ireland newspaper.
The group said the “attacks will continue when and where the IRA see fit.”
“The claim was received on Saturday, 15 February by a Northern Irish media outlet using a recognized codeword. The claim was allegedly made on behalf of the ‘IRA’,” a statement from London Metropolitan Police said.
Four suspected explosive devices were discovered at Army careers offices in Oxford, Brighton, Canterbury and the Queensmere shopping centre in Slough on February 13.
This followed packets sent to Aldershot, Hampshire, on February 12 and another two the previous day to an armed forces careers office in Reading, Berkshire, and the Army and Royal Air Force (RAF) careers office in Chatham, Kent.
The parcel bombs triggered evacuations as bomb disposal experts dealt with them. Moreover, the army confirmed at the time that the devices were viable and contained low-grade explosives.
British Prime Minister David Cameron chaired a Cobra meeting to discuss the suspicious parcels.
The IRA disbanded in the years after it declared an end to its armed campaign in 2005 but small splinter groups, including the New IRA, remained wedded to violence against British state institutions.
The New IRA, which formed from Irish republican groups two years ago, is the main suspect of recent bombings in British armed forces recruitment centers in England and is believed to be behind the message published by the Northern Ireland newspaper.
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