Terrorism: More Blood On Their Hands

More Blood On Their Hands

For the first time since October 1984, when a bomb ripped through a Brighton hotel during a Conservative Party conference, the Irish Republican Army has successfully moved its bloody campaign to Britain. At Inglis Barracks in north London, 14 British soldiers were asleep in their living quarters when an I.R.A. bomb exploded just before 7 a.m. A lance corporal was killed, and nine soldiers were injured.

Later that day in Northern Ireland, a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary died when an I.R.A. car bomb detonated as he drove through Lisburn, ten miles south of Belfast. Half an hour later in...

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