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Graeme[_2_] · January 26th 10, 02:38 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

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d wrote:

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:03:51 +0000
David Hansen wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:44:03 -0800 (PST) someone who may be jon
wrote this:-

If they had been suicide bombers they would be acting alone to
maximise damge. Neither would they draw attention to themselves by
dressing in such an obvious manner. Perhaps moving to the other end of
the carriage placed people next to the real bomber who was standing
there incognito.

Indeed, a variant on the IRA tactics (particularly in their latter
years).

Since when did the IRA use suicide bombers?

Well there was the Aldwych bus bomb, but he probably didn't mean it to be a
suicide bomb...

I believe David was referring to the IRA habit of phoning in a warning about
a bomb in one place and then detonating another just where the police were
evacuating people to.

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