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103 posted on 10/20/2003 7:16:39 AM PDT by Bobby777
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To: Bobby777
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1972 Bloody Friday nine are killed and many injured as Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) set off 22 bombs.

1974 Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves 5 dead and 44 injured.

1974 Birmingham pub bombing by the IRA kills 19 dead, 182 people are injured.

1976 UVF detonate a car bomb in Monaghan

1976 UVF detonate a car bomb in Dublin

1979 Lord Mountbatten and three others are killed by IRA

1982 Two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent's Park, London by the IRA killl 8 members of the Household Cavalry and the Royal Green Jackets seven horses are also killed.

1983 Harrods bomb by the IRA. Six are killed (including three police officers) and 90 wounded during Christmas shopping at the West London department store.

1984 IRA bomb in the Grand Hotel Brighton 5 are killed in an attempt to kill members of the British cabinet.

1985 IRA mortar attack kills nine soldiers in Newry

1987 Enniskillen massacre. Remembrance Day parade in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh is bombed by the IRA and 11 are killed and 63 injured

1989 Ten Royal Marines bandsmen are killed and 22 injured when base in Deal, Kent is bombed by the IRA.

1990 A series of car bombings directed by the IRA in Northern Ireland leave 7 people dead and 37 wounded.

1991 Two IRA members are killed by their own bomb in St Albans.

1992 Eight Protestant builders killed by an IRA bomb on their way to work at an Army base near Omagh.

1993 IRA bomb in Warrington kills two children.

1993 IRA detonate a huge truck bomb in the City of London at Bishopsgate, killing two and causing approximately £350m of damage.

1993 A bomb at a fish and chip shop on the Protestant Shankill Road, Belfast kills 10 people, including two children.

1996 IRA break their cease-fire and kill two in a bomb at the Canary Wharf towers in London.

1996 Manchester bombing by IRA

1998 Omagh bombing by the so-called "Real IRA" kills 29.
105 posted on 10/20/2003 1:21:50 PM PDT by KiaKaha
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