Bobby Sands remembered
Bobby Sands remembered
Thirty two years ago on 5 May 1981, the death of Bobby Sands was announced.
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posted by luisa brehm at 1:41 PM
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you have no idea what you are talking about, isn't it ???
Long Live IRA !!!!!
Free Ireland !!!!!
and if you come again to my home i delete you !!!!!
anonymous hmmm ???
I think that you will find that I know far more about this than you do. The reason for the "Anonymous" posting is that I live in an area where the "punishments" from the IRA still happen. To identify oneself is to invite a knock at the door late at night, and end up with no kneecaps.
The child that I spoke of was one of six children killed in Omagh by the "Real IRA." A splinter group. See the report below. 29 people died altogether in that one atrocity.
"The attack.
On 13 August, a maroon Vauxhall Cavalier was stolen from Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, in the Republic of Ireland. The perpetrators replaced its Republic of Ireland number plates with false Northern Ireland plates. On the day of the bombing, they drove the car across the Irish border and at about 14:19 parked the vehicle filled with 230 kg [500 pounds] of fertiliser-based explosives outside S.D. Kells' clothes shop in Omagh's Lower Market Street, on the southern side near the crossroads with Dublin Road. They could not find a parking space near the intended target, the Omagh courthouse. The car (with its false registration number MDZ 5211) had arrived from an easterly direction. The two male occupants then armed the bomb and upon exiting the car, walked east down Market Street towards Campsie Road.
Three phone calls were made warning of a bomb in Omagh, using the same codeword that had been used in the Real IRA's bomb attack in Banbridge two weeks earlier. At 14:32, a warning was telephoned to Ulster Television saying, "There's a bomb, courthouse, Omagh, main street, 500lb, explosion 30 minutes." One minute later, the office received a second warning saying, "Martha Pope (which was the RIRA's code word), bomb, Omagh town, 15 minutes". The caller claimed the warning on behalf of "Óglaigh na hÉireann". The next minute, the Coleraine office of the Samaritans received a call stating that a bomb would go off on "main street" about 200 yards (180 m) from the courthouse.The recipients passed on the information to the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC).
The BBC News stated that police "were clearing an area near the local courthouse, 40 minutes after receiving a telephone warning, when the bomb detonated. But the warning was unclear and the wrong area was evacuated". The warnings mentioned "main street" when no street by that name existed in Omagh, although Market Street was the main shopping street in the town. The nature of the warnings led the police to place a cordon across the junction of High Street and Market Street at Scarffes Entry. They then began to evacuate the buildings and move people down the hill from the top of High Street and the area around the courthouse to the bottom of Market Street where the bomb was actually placed. The courthouse is roughly 400 metres from the spot where the car bomb was parked.
Explosion
The car bomb detonated at about 15:10 BST in the crowded shopping area killing outright 21 people who had been in the vicinity of the vehicle. Eight more people would die on the way to or in hospital. The car burst into flames and was blown apart, with molten shrapnel, shards of glass, and car parts flew in every direction for 300 yards. The powerful blast wave which followed tore limbs and clothing off people, and even decapitated one woman as it travelled in a direct line, rebounding off the buildings.
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i said you are not welcome here !!!!!
this is not a newspaper ....
this is my blog, my home !!!!!
luisa
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