The homes of three loyalists were targeted in separate attacks last night.
A shot was fired through the living room window of a house at Carmeen Drive, Newtownabbey, belonging to Mr Sammy Duddy, a spokesman for the Ulster Political Research Group and an opponent of Johnny Adair.
Mr Duddy and his wife were not in the house, which has been targeted on a number of occasions.
A red vehicle was spotted driving away after the attack which took place around 9 p.m.
Later, a house at Albert Road in Carrickfergus, Co Antrim was attacked with a pipe bomb. A senior figure in the Ulster Defence Association had been living in the house.
The device failed to explode and was removed by Army bomb experts for forensic examination.
Early this morning a man narrowly escaped injury after a number of shots were fired through the front door of a house in Kilmory Gardens in the Tullycarnet area of east Belfast.
Two masked men had attempted to break into the flat and when they failed, fired a number of shots through the door.
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