RSS Feeds  Protestant militants target Northern Ireland party
Thursday - 12/6/2012, 2:49pm  ET  Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton listens to a question during a joint news
conference with Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny at the government
building in Dublin, Ireland, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. Clinton was
in Ireland to attend the Organization of Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) conference. (AP Photo/Kevin
Lamarque, Pool)  Associated Press  DUBLIN (AP) -- Northern
Ireland leaders appealed for calm Thursday after Protestant
militants attacked offices and a home connected to the most
compromise-minded political party over its support for reducing
the display of British flags on government buildings.  The
overnight violence in two Belfast suburbs came on the eve of
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's planned visit Friday
to the capital of the British territory. It underscored how
divided Northern Ireland remains despite the broad success of a
peace process that has stopped paramilitary violence but