Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has described a bomb attack on an RUC station in Tyrone for which dissident republicans have been blamed as out of step with republican views and thinking.
Mr Adams said: "These people should be part of the chance to build peace."
The blast happened at the Sion Mills RUC base near the Co Tyrone border following several warnings that a bomb had been left there.
Nobody was hurt and damage minimal, but the blast heightened fears of more violence by dissident republicans.
Northern Ireland security chiefs believe a terrorist unit is based in or around Derry and in an area where several police and military installations have been hit this year.
An unexploded device, an improvised grenade, was found at Strabane RUC station, just three miles away, less than a week ago and just days after a bomb in a holdall was left outside an army base near Derry Courthouse. It failed to go off as well.
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RUC District Commander Superintendent Clifford Best said the attack in Sion Mills was totally reckless and indiscriminate.
"We are all trying to work in partnership for the community, for the betterment of the community but yet we have these dissidents who are still deeply rooted in the past and will not come from that."
Around 50 families had to be moved from their homes to church halls and relatives' houses as police mounted an evacuation operation after the device was found in a holdall at the station entrance on the main road between Derry and Omagh.
But the device exploded before army bomb disposal experts could begin work.
Democratic Unionist Party councillor Mr Allan Bresland, who lives in Sion Mills, was adamant that dissident republicans were responsible for the attack.
"This was senseless, because the station is on a busy main road with a chapel and Baptist church close by," he added.
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