Militants hand over pipe bombs

BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- A Protestant paramilitary commander Thursday said he surrendered a stockpile of bombs to reassure his community that a feud with supporters of his rival, Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair, had ended -- but made clear that he is not disarming.

British army experts defused 14 pipe bombs and four smaller explosives abandoned Wednesday night by the Ulster Defense Association. Northern Ireland's largest Protestant gang has been using the crude homemade weapons for the past three years to terrorize Catholics.