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I think the IRA usually warned of a bomb a few minutes before it going off, so that it would cause a lot of inconvenience, a lot of material damage and relative

I think the IRA usually warned of a bomb a few minutes before it going off, so that it would cause a lot of inconvenience, a lot of material damage and relatively little human casualties.

dude01 9y ago
Oh yeah, good point, I was just thinking about the USA.
icebraining 9y ago
ETA did the same sometimes.
anon1385 9y ago
In some incidents the phone warnings gave the wrong location which resulted in the police moving people towards the bomb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omagh_bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omagh_bombing
praptak 9y ago
Not anonymously though. They had a system to authenticate their threats to the police.
- amorphid 9y ago
  I hadn't heard that. I googled 'ira ireland authenticating bomb threat' and found this short read... http://articles.latimes.com/1997-04-19/news/mn-50393_1_code-words http://articles.latimes.com/1997-04-19/news/mn-50393_1_code-... I thought it was interesting to find the information via a 20 year old online newspaper article, instead of a link to Wikipedia or some more recent rehash of the information presented in the article.