So much for Guests not be allowed to post to this thread.

There is/was a marked difference between the activities of the various groups mentioned by Jim Carroll between the years 1968 and 1996. Whereas the Loyalist paramilitaries fought basically a sectarian war, the Republicans conducted a camapign of terror who indiscriminately targeted the civilian population of Northern Ireland irrespective of political belief or religious conviction.

The likes of Jim Carroll and US apologists such as Big Mick, continually bring up Bloody Sunday where 14 people died, but never ever mention the 87 people murdered on the orders of Martin McGuinness in the same city, or the bomb attacks such as the one mentioned in this thread or of the planning and execution of what became known as Bloody Friday. The PIRA Jim Carroll not the British Government were the ones responsible for the deaths of 3,500 fellow Irish men, women and children, they were additionally responsible for injuring and maiming 36,000 of their own countrymen. Had it not been for the eforts of the Emergency Services and Security Forces present in Northern Ireland those numbers would have been a great deal higher.

The Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland were scum, pure and simple, I would say the same of anyone or any organisation that instructs its members to set bombs knowing that in setting them they will take the lives of completely innocent members of the public who are purely going about their everyday lives doing harm to no-one.