A radical Irish group instructed Palestinian terrorists in turning cell phones into bombs, a senior Northern Ireland politician said. “Israeli security forces last year learned that a Real IRA suspect was involved in instructing members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in building and using the mobile phone bombs,” David Trimble told the Washington-based Heritage Foundation in a speech Monday.
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