IRA Question: Back when the IRA set bombs...

Taverner

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Fri Mar-17-06 02:19 PM
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IRA Question: Back when the IRA set bombs...

Didn't they do all they could to minimize civilian casualties?

I heard that somewhere

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CJCRANE

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Fri Mar-17-06 02:22 PM
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1. Not exactly..

but they did give coded warnings ahead of time.

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tjwmason

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Fri Mar-17-06 02:24 PM
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2. Yes and no.

They usually provided warnings, but these were often unclear.

As regards their bombing campaign in Great Britain, it was certainly more directed at disturbing normal life, rather than killing civilians. They did, of course, attempt to kill political leaders (famously including bombing the Conservative Party conference once).

In Northern Ireland, they were directed against the British Military and Police presence - and sectarians battles with the loyalists and their paramilitaries.

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Finder

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Fri Mar-17-06 02:25 PM
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3. In most cases yes, however...

both sides drew extremists but the ones on the IRA side got most of the bad press. Remember, the IRA(historically) was the insurgency against Britain akin to the Sons of Liberty in the founding of the US. Our(US) distance from Britain helped us in our quest but the close proximity of Ireland undermined the Irish struggle.

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WilliamPitt

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Fri Mar-17-06 02:27 PM
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4. Not in Omagh

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/151985.stm

They set off one bomb to get people to flock to a certain location...and then set off another bomb in that location.

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mohinoaklawnillinois

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Fri Mar-17-06 02:42 PM
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7. Mr. Pitt, this is once instance where you are wrong...

The police sent the crowd in the wrong direction, toward the car that had the bomb in it.

Rent the movie "Omagh". It will give you a clearer picture of what happened that Saturday morning, Aug. 15, 1998 and the cover-up that followed it...

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RB TexLa

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Fri Mar-17-06 02:44 PM
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10. Well 29 civilians weren't worth their blowing their agents cover n/t

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RB TexLa

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Fri Mar-17-06 02:43 PM
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8. From the BBC? oh yes, then it must be the truth

Even they say that the

"No-one has yet claimed responsibility but suspicions will fall on dissident republican groups, such as the "Real IRA"."

Maybe the two MI5 agents who actually carried out the bombing had them run that.

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ourbluenation

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Fri Mar-17-06 03:07 PM
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12. wrong.wrong.wrong eom

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unblock

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Fri Mar-17-06 02:34 PM
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5. 'all they could to minimize civilian casualties'? you mean, like NO BOMBS?

if all they wanted to do was disrupt life, they could have mangled some train tracks in the middle of the night and immediately made an anonymous call to prevent a train wreck, or set off harmless smoke bombs in the underground, that sort of thing.

no, they set bombs to go off in restaurants in the middle of the day, not the middle of the night.

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Redstone

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Fri Mar-17-06 02:39 PM
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6. They were hearltess fucking thugs. I doubt they cared.

Redstone

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seemslikeadream

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Fri Mar-17-06 02:43 PM
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9. I wonder just where some of those bombs

Edited on Fri Mar-17-06 02:45 PM by seemslikeadream

actually came from?

false flag

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060314/ts_nm/iraq_american_dc

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sg_

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Fri Mar-17-06 03:05 PM
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11. They gave warnings...

but I doubt it was to "reduce casualties", more likely so they could believe they had some morality.

They bombed my village back in the late 1980s with a 1000lb car-bomb, and killed my friends grandfather for working in a garage which supposidly was a "uvf stronghold" along with 2 others, killed my da's workmate along with 7 others (8 dead total) for doing work at an army base (teebane massacre).

Words cannot express my hatred of the Ra :mad:

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