The London bombings. On June 17th 1974 a Provisional IRA bomb exploded in Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament, rupturing a gas pipe and starting a fire. An IRA volunteer telephoned through a warning six minutes before the bomb exploded, allowing the area to be cleared. The warning ...
BombingsSabotageAt various moments in the twentieth century the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in its various incarnations have used the tactic of infrastructural bombing, notably in their 1939 attacks in England on electricity pylons and in the summer of 1971 in Northern Ireland on its electrical ...
LONDON —A member of the outlawed Irish Republican Army was sentenced to life in prison Monday for killing five people in a 1984 bomb attack that narrowly missed its primary intended victim--Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. “You intended to wipe out a large part of the government and you ve...
With London bombings. Britain's public service ethos comes to the fore. The article reports that London, England's well-prepared emergency services were able to help bombing victims rapidly, as a well-rehearsed disaster plan was put into effect. According to paramedic David Whitmore, the spirit...
Squadron Quartermaster Corporal Roy Bright, 36, Lieutenant Dennis Daly, 23, Trooper Simon Tipper, 19, and Lance Corporal Jeffrey Young, also 19, were killed by a car bomb as they rode through the central London park for the changing of the guard. ...
Today, no one in the republican movement denies that he was an IRA man or that he was involved in the bombings, but they argue now, as they did then, that the confession given to RUC officers in Omagh was beaten out of him. [ ‘The M...
The provincial government of Northern Ireland was for many years dominated by Protestants, but at present Ulster is ruled directly from London. King said in his statement that two men had been arrested in connection with the killing of the two corporals Saturday and that a “massive murder inves...
It was, however, deemed that the electorate should not be told that keeping Ching Ching and Chia Chia in bamboo shoots as well as the pounds 70,000 cost of their shelter could have bankrupted London Zoo, leaving Premier Harold Wilson potentially exposed to hostile headlines screaming: " Govern...
IRA like This.So Why Do These People Keep Telling Us That Relentless Bombing Is the ONLY Way to Defeat Bin Laden?; Moral Fibre Jibe Is Really an Attack on Those 'Off-Message' Straw Wants Our Humility but His Party Offers None Short Tells Us Not to Get 'Emotional' over the Bombings ...
IRA bombings.Recounts the recent bombings by Irish Republican Army guerrillas in Belfast and London, the Belfast bomb injuring 17 people and damaging the Grand Opera House. Britain recently deployed nearly 2,000 extra troops in Northern Ireland to discourage IRA violence....