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When you're dealing with these religious fruit-cakes it doesn't take much at all for them to justify strapping on a bomb and exploding themselves in the nearest crowded place. Danish cartoons anyone? Salman Rushdie? It's astonishing how quickly they can erect effigies to burn!
Depends who you were, as an English civilian I'd say you're much more at risk by Islamic terrorism than the IRA
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/cgi-bin/tab2.pl
from 1969-2001 the IRA killed 69 civilians in mainland Britain. Islamic terrorists managed to kill 52 people in one day.
Also we used military force to crush the IRA (or at least push them to negotiate) including the SAS ambushing terrorists, the Prevention of Terrorism act, judges sitting without jury, internement and letting Bobby Sands et al starve themselves to death. Now personally as a Northern Irishman I've no problem with fighting fire with fire. They're are people Iwho are alive today because we were prepared to play big boys rules. But let's not pretend we beat the IRA by touchy-feely understanding their pain, but by ruthless compromise of civil liberties of some to protect the right to life of others... (and sometimes the right to life of soldiers and peelers was given away to protect the civil rights of others)
It does make me wonder, it this accident has given them some ideas.
hmm i meant UK as a whole but i suppose if you take out NI the IRA wasn't that big a threat, still the frequency of attacks was far higher than any islamic threat we face today, warrington, bishopsgate, canary wharf, manchester, omagh, etc etc all just in the 90s......i'm not saying we should be touchy feely with terrorists but civil liberties were not 'ruthlessly compromised' for most of us then relative to recent legislation.
Maybe they did, just too late?