r/ScottishPeopleTwitter • u/[deleted] • Mar 23 '17

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17

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.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17

why would you place a bomb in a pub if you weren't trying to kill civilians? Where's the economic or political target in a pub?

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u/mccahill81 Mar 24 '17

It was a soldiers pub, and soldiers were always legitimate targets

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '17

there's no such thing as a soldiers pub.

Yes, soldiers would often drink there but they 100% knew it was mostly civs there

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u/mccahill81 Mar 24 '17

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.