From: Adam Flinton 

Geo wrote:
> "Adam"  wrote in message
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>>>>& then EOKA, Stern Gang, CP in Malaya etc.etc.etc since 1945.
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>>>how many of those took place in London?
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>>WRT The IRA a fair few coz that's where the power resides e.g.
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> Ok, so this wasn't really much bigger than other terror events they've seen?
> (I understand it was bigger but not the several orders of magnitude that we
> saw with 911)?
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Mostly due to luck. Bad luck on your part & good luck on ours.

Also it was less "photogenic" as the major attacks were
underground. That's probably why they blew up the bus (to provide some nice
pickies for global media). Noone is seeing the cops etc digging people out
of the tube (esp at KingsX).

They were truely dim to blow up Edgeware road though as that's the center
of the Arab community in London. Truely dim or very purposefull (i.e.
attacking "westernized" arabs).


Adam

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