Belfast, U.K.
Michael Stone, a notorious pro-British militant who served 12 years in prison for killing three people at an IRA funeral in 1988, was arrested last week for attempting to murder republican leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness. Police said Stone burst into Northern Ireland's parliament building, where power-sharing negotiations between Catholic republicans and Protestant loyalists were underway, and dropped a bag containing eight crude pipe bombs. He then started to write "Sinn Fein are murderers" on a wall before security guards tackled him. Former associates described Stone as "totally paranoid and receiving treatment." Stone's previous prison sentence ended early as part of a 1998 peace accord.
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