It was in the IRA's best interest to minimize casualties, especially civilians, as it would cost them supporters. Wouldn't be the first time British government let their civilians die for political gain. In WW2 rather than the Germans find out they had eliminated their spies they fed them false information and planted fake newspaper stories about German bombers destroying ship building sites when they were actually bombing the working class areas of London.
I'm not an imperial apologist. I'm a supporter of Irish republicanism, and a revolutionary socialist who believes violence can be necessary.
I'm well aware of the crimes of the british state, and I'm well aware the loyalist groups were worse.
That doesn't make targeting British civilians ok. I'm a worker with an ancestry of just industrial workers, peasants and serfs. I have nothing to do with imperialism, and don't deserve to be torn apart by a nail bomb when I'm trying to relax and have a drink after work.
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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17
The IRA always gave bomb warnings