I wonder what steps the English authorities would take if the IRA cranked up a bombing campaign in London and throughout England again. What if the IRA linked up with the jihadis to spread mayhem? Makes you wonder.
What if the IRA started bombing mosques, which seems more up their alley unless I misunderstand them badly.
“I wonder what steps the English authorities would take if the IRA cranked up a bombing campaign in London and throughout England again. What if the IRA linked up with the jihadis to spread mayhem? Makes you wonder.”
That would be just renewing old friendships with Libya.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-12539372
So what exactly is the link between Colonel Gaddafi and Northern Ireland?
In the 1960s the Provisional IRA was badly armed, relying on old weapons, some dating back to World War II.
Muammar Gaddafi, who took over Libya in a 1969 coup, saw the IRA as a comrade-in-arms fighting British imperialism and he was partly responsible for providing it with more modern weaponry.
The first proven connection with Libya was discovered in 1973 when the Irish Navy boarded a ship called the Claudia, off the Irish coast.
They found five tonnes of weaponry supplied by Libya.
Links between Gaddafi and the IRA re-emerged in 1986 after Gaddafi’s adopted daughter was killed along with more than 100 other people by US bombing raids launched from UK bases.
The Libyan leader has said he resumed contact with the IRA in the aftermath of those air raids.