IIRC the IRA always used to call the police and tell them where the bombs were before they went off, so that people would not be killed by them. Makes a big difference to the people who weren't killed, I'd wager.
"IIRC the IRA always used to call the police and tell them where the bombs were before they went off, so that people would not be killed by them. Makes a big difference to the people who weren't killed, I'd wager."
The IRA always had an eye for their support base which wouldn't have stood large scale random bloodshed. Not that their bombs didn't kill plenty of people. I'm not sure that's much of a claim to the moral highground though.