The 'IRA' has claimed responsibility for a bomb under the car of a senior PSNI officer in Belfast.
The group, also referred to as the New IRA, issued a statement to the Irish News using a recognised code word.
It read: "The IRA claims responsibility for the recent under car booby trap.
"We are confident the device would have exploded if it was not for the level terrain it had travelled on.
"We were unlucky this time but we only have to be lucky once."
A “sophisticated” bomb was placed under the senior officer's vehicle and discovered at Shandon Park Golf Club in East Belfast on Saturday.
The club, with at least 70 people present, was evacuated after staff were alerted.
The Irish News reports the device is understood to have contained a mercury-tilt switch which is motion activated and normally requires a sudden movement to trigger an explosion.
Two burnt-out cars linked to the attempted murder of the police officer went missing for at least 24 hours.
The whereabouts of the potentially vital evidence, a Saab and a Dublin-reg Skoda, in that period remain unclear.
Both were set on fire in Ardoyne in North Belfast at around 2am on Saturday but had been removed from the area by around lunchtime that day.
On Sunday, police officers were desperately trying to trace the vehicles.
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