The 1994 Heathrow mortar attacks were a series of homemade mortar bomb attacks targeted at Heathrow Airport carried out by the Provisional IRA. Over a...
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Street mortar attack was carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 7 February 1991. The IRA launched three homemade mortar shells...
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Warrington bombings (redirect from Warrington Bomb Attacks)
injured. The attacks were carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). From the early 1970s, the IRA had been carrying out attacks in both Northern...
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The Osnabrück mortar attack was an improvised mortar attack carried out by a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit based in mainland Europe on...
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The Troubles (section Downing Street mortar attack)
reaction to the attacks, nationalists saw the RUC, which was almost wholly Protestant, as backing the loyalists and allowing the attacks to occur. On 5...
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Provisional Irish Republican Army actions (1980–1989) Downing Street mortar attack The assassination attempt targeted the entire Thatcher Cabinet at the...
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13 March - Heathrow mortar attacks - The IRA fired mortars at Heathrow Airport on the 9, 11 and 13 March. Nobody was injured in the attacks. 9 February...
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to retail offerings. March 1994: 1994 Heathrow mortar attacks 7 February 1996: Concorde G-BOAD arrived at Heathrow after crossing the Atlantic from New...
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Hume to continue. The IRA carried out a number of smaller bomb and mortar attacks in England during the remainder of 1993 and in early 1994, before declaring...
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bomb attack in 1993, which killed two young children, Tim Parry and Johnathan Ball. In early March 1994, there were three mortar attacks on Heathrow Airport...
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Heathrow Airport (/ˌhiːθˈroʊ, ˈhiːθroʊ/), called London Airport until 1966 (IATA: LHR, ICAO: EGLL), is the main international airport serving London, the...
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Balcombe Street Gang (section Type of attacks)
in southern England in the mid-1970s. The majority of their attacks and attempted attacks took place in London and the rest in Surrey, Hampshire and Wiltshire...
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Barrack buster (category Mortars)
These mortars were also used against targets in England, such as the Downing Street attack on 7 February 1991, and the Heathrow mortar attacks in March...
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needed] 9–13 March – Heathrow mortar attacks: On 9, 11, and 13 March, the IRA fired improvised mortar bombs on to the runway at Heathrow Airport. There were...
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caused. 1994, March: Heathrow mortar attacks: The IRA launched a series of mortar attacks on Heathrow Airport near London. The attacks caused severe disruption...
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JHQ Rheindahlen bombing (Germany) 1988 Netherlands Attacks Deal barracks Osnabruck mortar attack 1990 Eltham bombing Sutton, Malcolm. "CAIN: Sutton Index...
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another major bombing campaign in England. In February 1991 it launched a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street, official residence and office of the British Prime...
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to claim sectarian attacks. South Armagh Republican Action Force – Used by the PIRA's South Armagh Brigade to claim sectarian attacks in the mid-1970s Catholic...
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Gibraltar on 6 March 1988. The trio were believed to be planning a car bomb attack on British military personnel in Gibraltar. They were shot dead while leaving...
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Bomb Attacks in London Kill 8". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 18 December 2019. Rattner, Steven (21 July 1982). "I.R.A. Bomb attacks in...
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about a bomb attack in Manchester, in England, which was done by the IRA at the time, and the idea that people carry out these attacks and did they really...
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Birmingham pub bombings (category Attacks on bars in the United Kingdom)
bombs had also committed previous IRA attacks. This conclusion was further supported by the methodology of the attacks, and the official IRA code word given...
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had seen several IRA attacks—successful or otherwise—within the previous year, the M62 coach bombing was the most severe attack upon the mainland to date...
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that they had a habit of attacking again some of the sites they had previously attacked, and that they did not carry out attacks on the weekend or on days...
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Assassination of Airey Neave (category Attacks on legislatures in the United Kingdom)
Hinton Waldrist, in Oxfordshire. Brighton bombing Downing Street mortar attack List of attacks on legislatures Jack Holland, Henry McDonald, INLA – Deadly...
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carrying out attacks against British military personnel and British diplomats on mainland Europe since the mid-1970s. Prominent attacks included: January...
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deadly mortar attacks before 1985. The first was on 19 March 1979, when Private Peter Woolmore of the Queen's Regiment was killed in a mortar attack on Newtownhamilton...
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IRA attacks that used Gaddafi-supplied Semtex and weapons". www.parliament.uk. 9 April 2019. "Report on compensation for Gaddafi-backed IRA attack victims...
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Guildford pub bombings (category Attacks on bars in the United Kingdom)
Pigeons on High Street. The Provisional IRA Army Council had authorised attacks in England at a meeting in 1973, and army pubs were viewed as soft military...
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Harrods bombing (category Attacks on buildings and structures in 1983)
authorised the attack and expressed regret for the civilian casualties. After the bombing, the IRA shifted its emphasis towards attacks on military targets...
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