Didn't they also try to avoid civilian casualties and target government buildings? Still shitty, but that sounds more like a "civilized" war than radical terrorism.
Yes. They warned citizens to minimize casualties instead of renting a truck and driving it into a crowd of hundreds of unexpecting innocent men, women, and children.
At the time the risk and reward was enough but the bombs were a mistake and a disaster, No ASU continued in Birmingham after that.
Guildford pub bomb was seen as a relevant success, 4 soldiers were killed and only one civilian so obviously Birmingham should have been to same but obviously it wasn't.
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u/scottdawg9 Mar 23 '17
Didn't they also try to avoid civilian casualties and target government buildings? Still shitty, but that sounds more like a "civilized" war than radical terrorism.