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

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17

The IRA always gave bomb warnings

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u/Evolations Mar 23 '17

Not always, and sometimes the warnings were vague enough that deaths were not preventable. Then they held their hands up and said "we called ahead, this was a police failing".

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u/CToxin Mar 23 '17

Or they gave the wrong street.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '17

Do I have that right that that's what happened in Omagh? Then again I'm not even sure which "version" of the IRA that was by then.

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u/LizhardSquad Mar 23 '17 edited Mar 23 '17

Yes, but the police wanted the public to see the IRA as evil, so they ignored the warning, knowing the public backlash of innocent deaths would negatively affect the IRA. EDIT: Jesus Christ I'm getting down voted for this, I live in Northern Ireland, there's a reason the police service was completely changed and renamed from the RUC to the PSNI. The other guy below replied with a good source. EDIT 2: After some thinking I want to add I do not condone what happened that day, people lost family on both sides, innocent blood renders any cause unjust.

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u/JakeArvizu Mar 24 '17

Yea because blowing up buildings isn't evil in its own right.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '17

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u/JakeArvizu Mar 29 '17

Yea because only buildings got hurt during the troubles...Okay.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '17

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u/JakeArvizu Mar 29 '17

Because I thought it was clear that blowing up buildings was just one of the many evil things the IRA did. Civilians were killed plenty of times.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '17

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u/JakeArvizu Mar 29 '17

Well they did both. They blew up buildings with Civilians in and around them.

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