Clinton visits restive Belfast
2 bombs found elsewhere in N. Ireland as she calls for peace
Posted: December 8, 2012 at 5:24 a.m.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, accompanied by Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinson (left) and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, visits Titanic Belfast, a center devoted to the history of the doomed ocean liner.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton flew to Belfast on Friday for a brief visit that contrasted calls for peace with the discovery of two bombs unconnected with her diplomacy, underscoring the continued power of sectarian passions almost 15 years after a formal peace accord brokered partly by her husband.
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