Awwal 05, 1432, Feb 08, 2011, SPA -- Northern Ireland police arrested two suspected Irish Republican Army dissidents Tuesday over a botched Belfast ambush that involved hiding a bomb on a small child's bicycle, AP reported. Police last month spent four days searching Belfast's Antrim Road _ dubbed «the Murder Mile» during the worst days of the Northern Ireland conflict _ following telephoned warnings from an IRA faction that its members had hidden bombs in the area that failed to detonate. Two days into the search, police found one small bomb inside a car. Two days later they found a second bomb taped to an abandoned preschool-sized bicycle. About 50 families were avacuated from their homes during the search operation. Police said the two arrested men, aged 33 and 34, were being questioned at their major interrogation center in Antrim west of Belfast. The senior investigator, Detective Chief Inspector Justyn Galloway, said the attackers apparently tried to lure police into the area by vandalizing the window of a shop, then telephoning the police to report the crime. But when police responded, neither bomb in the area detonated. -- SPA
