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Leaving a bag in the UK has always raised suspicion, hence leaving bombs in bins which were invisible. The added death and mayhem from the shrapnel was just a b
by iso1631 7y ago
Leaving a bag in the UK has always raised suspicion, hence leaving bombs in bins which were invisible. The added death and mayhem from the shrapnel was just a bonus.
When the IRA were using american funds to blow our kids up in the 80s and 90s, it was a more innocent time - nobody really considered a threat where the bomber would be willing to kill themselves as part of the attack - not in the west (and there'd only been the one suicide attack by the Palestinians), and much of the time there were warnings phoned in. Typical bombings were abandoned car/vans, bags or litter bins.
Nowadays the attack vector seems more knife crime or suicide bombing. There's far less now too.
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- n4r9 7y agoI suppose the IRA was motivated more by real-world issues whereas Islamic (or otherwise) suicide bombers are often motivated by some kind of mythology involving an afterlife. Of course, IRA members were (almost all?) Catholic, but Christianity's notions of martyrdom are much more passive than those of Islamic fundamentalists. I googled it and discovered that the pIRA did use human bombs, except that the human involved was under coercion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_bomb You're right about there being far fewer terrorist incidents now. I believe the London tube bombings of 2005 and Manchester arena bombing of 2017 were the only suicide bombings in the UK this side of the millenium.