Does no body understand the difference between al qaeda and the IRA?
The only difference that I see is the size of the body count. And claiming that the IRA never targetted civilians is pure BS. And even when their bombs were against ‘military’ targets they demonstrated a gross recklessness and tot unconcern for the likely civilian casualties. The below indicates that 1 out of 3 deaths caused by the IRA was civilian: “Two very detailed studies of deaths in the Troubles, the CAIN project at the University of Ulster, and Lost Lives,[71] differ slightly on the numbers killed by the Provisional IRA but a rough synthesis gives a figure of 1,800 deaths. Of these, roughly 1,100 were members of the security forces: British Army, Royal Ulster Constabulary and Ulster Defence Regiment; between 600 and 650 were civilians and the remainder were either loyalist or republican paramilitaries (including over 100 IRA members accidentally killed by their own bombs).” Civilians injured in IRA attacks were over double military injuries: “It has also been estimated that the
