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Tue 08 Aug 2001British army make Antrim pipe bomb safeA pipe bomb thrown at a Co Antrim house was made safe tonight when British army bomb experts carried out a controlled explosion.The device is believed to have lain undiscovered in the garden of the house in Ballymena until late afternoon when a little heard of republican group claimed it carried out the attack on Monday night.