Police: Cardinal O’Brien may be letter-bomb target

April 21, 2011

Police in Scotland have warned Cardinal Keith O’Brien that he may be a target of a letter-bomb campaign aimed at supporters of Celtic, a Glasgow-based football team. Fans of the team tend to be Catholic, while Protestants tend to support the arch-rival Rangers.

Prime Minister David Cameron has denounced the bombing campaign as “completely appalling and unacceptable.”

 

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Further information:

• Police fear cardinal target in anti-Celtic letter-bomb blitz (Irish Independent)
• Old Firm (Wikipedia)