[tom8517]

Was it luck that no one died in the Manchester bombing? Yes absolutely. It remains the largest device exploded in Britain to this day since WW2.. Here is what is not luck. Had the IRA chosen not to issue a warning the fatalities would have been on a scale with 9/11.

The selective outrage and crocodile tears about IRA activities begin to wear very thin when we muddy the waters with facts.

Upwards of 70% of all fatalities caused by the IRA were armed members of the security forces. Another 40 to 50 were loyalist paramilitaries. Did the IRA kill civilians? Yes they did. Were IRA members involved in sectarian murders? Yes they were. Was this IRA policy? No, it was not.

Contrast this with the record of the loyalist "paramilitary groups", if they even rise to the level of being called paramilitary.

The UVF ambush and murder of the Miami Show band. Was there any pretense of a legitimate republican target? No, there was not. Two of the five killers were members of the Ulster Defense Regiment, a third was a former member. Trained, armed and equipped by the British crown. Recent declassified documents further reveal that MI5 supplied the detonators that were used to blow up the bands van after the murders. Two of the UVF cunts blew themselves up in the process of trying to destroy the van. One of them, Wesley Summerville, has a memorial erected to him by grateful unionists.

Now, the self righteous DUP goes up in flames every year when Sinn Fein commemorates the volunteers killed at Loughall. They died in a shoot out with the SAS while assaulting a heavily fortified police barracks manned by armed RUC constables. But its perfectly ok to commemorate the memory of man who died butchering unarmed musicians? Hypocrisy.