A leading campaigner against paramilitary attacks has said the IRA tried to kill or maim him by planting a bomb at his home in south Belfast.
Mr Vincent McKenna, spokesman for Families Against Intimidation and Terror (FAIT), said his leg hit a wire attached to an explosive device on his side door as he opened it. The shrapnel-filled device failed to explode.
"I have no doubt it was members of the IRA who planted this bomb," he said.
Mr McKenna found the device at 9.30 a.m. yesterday. Police sealed off the area, evacuating his neighbours from their homes.
Bomb-disposal experts made the device safe with a controlled explosion and later described it as "crude". The cordon on the area was lifted at 1 p.m.
Mr McKenna said he knew who had planted the device and said local republicans had "told me twice in the past couple of weeks that my time was up".
According to Mr McKenna, forensic experts told him the device had been constructed by someone with bomb-making know-how and that it had been packed with shrapnel. A loose wire prevented it from exploding.
"I was opening the side door and a wire came back and hit me in the legs. The bomb had been attached to the lower jamb on the door, aimed to take the legs off you."
He said it was a cowardly act that put the lives of his two children, aged two and three, at risk. It would not force him out of the area or stop him campaigning against violence, he added.
"I take the precautions that everyone would, but what can you do if people want to go snooping around at night? You can't live in a vault."
Mr McKenna was attacked and beaten by a gang of six men on the Ormeau Road last July. One man has been charged in relation to the incident. Three months ago a letter bomb to the offices of FAIT failed to explode when Mr McKenna opened it.
A former member of the Provisional IRA, Mr McKenna has campaigned against paramilitary violence since 1991.