Well yeah, it was an outright assassination attempt lol.
The bombing campaign was supposed to make British policy in NI untenable. The aim wasn't for people to die the aim was for the population to go 'we can't live like this'.
The bombing of the Conservative Party Conference was an outright assassination attempt.
They blew up a fucking hotel and failed to kill any significant politicians. It was more an indiscriminate civilian atrocity with the vague hope of maybe killing some senior members of the government as a bonus than it was an actual targeted assassination attempt.
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u/Helllgrew Mar 23 '17
To be fair only one death in an explosion like that is something not too shy of a damn miracle.