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Thread #85245   Message #1581740
Posted By: Divis Sweeney
12-Oct-05 - 05:52 PM
Thread Name: BS: PIRA Invests In Manchester
Subject: RE: BS: PIRA Invests In Manchester
Dear Keith. Please would you be good enough to list the names of those killed ? you state MANY DEATHS.In the Manchester bomb of June 1996. Yes an active Service Unit of the Provisional IRA did plant a bomb on Saturday the 15th of June 1996 with resulted in 206 people being injured. NO ONE WAS KILLED.I repeat NO ONE WAS KILLED. The bomb was reported to be 8,000 pounds. It was 3,000. The warnings were telephoned under the agreed terms of recognized coding. In fact five warnings were received all given to different sources. The first of these was relayed to the Greater Manchester Police 1 hour and 46 minutes before the bomb exploded.It is the responsilbilty of the police to evacuate people to a safe area. Most injuries were caused by flying glass.Most injured were within an area that would have been effected if the bomb had been 1,000 pounds.I wish to say that I sincerely regret the injuries caused to civilians and that this incident now belongs in our past. Which I am very glad to see.
As to Tom Murphy,He is a well known Republican. As to your question is he a commander, answer no. There is no command structure within the PIRA as they have all been stood down.