No one really disputes Birmingham was an authorized IRA operation. The botched warning resulted from the public phone to be used having been vandalized. The failure to ensure a secure method of delivering a warning would have in a conventional military been criminal negligence at the very least. So I'd agree the IRA should acknowledge it was them and issue a formal apology. That they would give up the volunteers involved, if their still alive, is just not going to happen.
However it's worth noting that if the police had actually done their jobs instead of scooping up six men whose crime was the possession of an Irish accent and then torturing them into false confessions, justice might have served back in 1974.
Last edited by tom8517; 07-06-2018 at 05:55 PM.
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