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  1989 Deal barracks bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Provisional Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for the bombing, saying it was a continuation of their campaign to rid Northern Ireland of all British troops (who had been deployed in the region for nearly twenty years).
The Deal bombing was not the first nor the last to occur in the UK against military outposts.
In August 1988, a barracks in north London was bombed, and in February 1989, the headquarters of the Parachute Regiment in Shropshire was destroyed by three explosions.
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 Bombing, Bombs and Weapons Portal @ Bombing.us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A bomb is an explosive material that generates and releases its energy very rapidly as an explosion and has a violent, destructive shock wave.
Bombs are first and foremost weapons; the term "bomb" is not usually applied to explosive devices used for civilian purposes, such as construction or mining, although the people using the devices may sometimes refer to them as bombs.
Bombs fall into three distinct categories: conventional if filled with chemical explosives, dispersive if filled with submunitions, chemicals or other disruptive agents which are spread on or shortly before impact, or nuclear if relying on nuclear fission or nuclear fusion for their effect.
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 Terror Attack History
A car bomb is a bomb that is placed in a car or truck and is intended to be exploded while there.
The 1983 Rangoon bombing was a devastating act of terrorism by North Korea and an attempt to kill the South Korean President, Chun Doo Hwan.
The Grand Hotel, Brighton, 2004 The Brighton hotel bombing was the bombing by the Provisional IRA of the Grand Hotel in Brighton in the early morning of October 12, 1984.
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Only two other hostages were released as a result of the arms-for-hostages deal: in July 1986, Martin Jenco, a Catholic priest, was released; and the administrator of the American University of Beirut's medical school, David Jacobson, was released in November 1986.
In 1989 he was convicted in a German court and sentenced to life in prison.
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 SCIFI.COM | Tribute
Suicide bombing cells turn out to be careless and unprofessional terrorists, who are easily rounded up by streetwise cops.
There are numerous hot-war flare-ups, much narco-terror, a great deal of ruthless, paramilitary spy skullduggery and considerable civil dissent from dissidents in the West unable to morally stomach this grinding, Balkan-style dirty war.
Among the Real People, there is a great deal of general housecleaning: currency reforms, arms reduction, climate treaties, economic rationalization, demolition of trade barriers, labor laws, emigration, all that sort of thing.
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 1989 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The world population growth in absolute numbers is believed to have been the highest ever around this time.
June 4 - Solidarity's victory in the first partly free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland, this event was first of anti-communist revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989 (almost all of them peaceful).
November 22 - In west Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad and kills him.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/1989   (4606 words)

 September 11, 2001 and the bombing of Afghanistan
On occasion, US bombing campaigns do have as part of their agenda the causing of suffering, hoping that it will lead the people under the falling bombs to turn against the government.
Bombs were not all that fell from the sky from American airplanes.
They bomb, invade, assassinate, torture, overthrow, commit injustice, keep you and the world in poverty and claim it is in the name of God.
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 CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1989
This action followed the killing (on 15 January 1989) of a man whom, it was claimed, was an Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) informer.
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a bomb in Deal Barracks ('The Depot'), Kent, England, which killed ten musicans who were part of the staff band of the Royal Marines.
cain.ulst.ac.uk /othelem/chron/ch89.htm   (2349 words)

Members of the movement who were involved in the 1989 attack are recognized by some international human rights groups as having been jailed for political reasons, but the Government maintains that those involved were tried and convicted properly of involvement in a violent rebellion against a democratically elected government.
No one has taken responsibility for the bomb threats, nothing was found in the building on these occasions, and no formal investigations were undertaken into the bomb threats.
The authorities continued to investigate the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires and the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center, in which 86 persons died.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/wha/690.htm   (12027 words)

 Media, Advertising, and the 1984 Presidential Election: Ronald Reagan's First Term
When directly asked what they thought the most important issue in the country was 77 percent of Americans indicated the economy in September 1980 and 81 percent of Americans gave the same answer in April 1983 (Goodman 1983).
In reaction to this bombing, Reagan blamed former president Jimmy Carter for failing to enact safeguards for the embassy (Slansky 1989).
Two days after the car bombing that killed 24 in Beirut, the United States military invaded the tiny island nation of Grenada, in order to protect the safety of U.S. medical students there (Slansky 1989).
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 Annual Report 1988-1989 Chapter V
They deal with the freedom to be granted to the members of the Army of the regime deposed on July 19, 1979, for crimes committed prior to that date, in application of the general amnesty granted and contemplated in the Agreement of Sapoá.
In fact, the bombing of towns by the National Guard was done in an indiscriminate fashion and without prior evacuation of the civilian population, which caused innumerable deaths of persons who were not involved in the conflict, and, in general, a dramatic situation;
The letter of April 4, 1989, to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua stated that the Commission proposed concrete options for resolving the situation, and requested an interview for the Chairman of the Commission with the President of Nicaragua for the purpose of drawing up a mutually acceptable plan.
www.cidh.oas.org /annualrep/88.89eng/chap.5.htm   (6501 words)

 CNN.com - Defendant linked to U.S. embassy bombing pleads guilty - October 20, 2000
He is one of 17 defendants charged in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.
Mohamed referred to the 1984 bombing of the Marines barracks in Beirut, which precipitated the U.S. withdrawal from Lebanon.
Prior to the 1998 embassy bombings, a federal grand jury in New York was already investigating Mohamed and his possible ties to the bin Laden network.
edition.cnn.com /2000/LAW/10/20/embassy.bombings.03   (822 words)

 frontline: teacher center: teachers guide: roots of terrorism| PBS
Operatives allegedly trained by the CIA set off a car bomb in an attempt to kill Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the Shiite Muslim cleric who some believe to be the spiritual leader of Hezbollah.
In Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, a truck bomb explodes outside the Khobar Towers, which are home to nearly half of the 5,000-member military force in Saudi Arabia.
The bomb in Dar es Salaam kills 11 and injures 85.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/terror/background/1.html   (925 words)

From March 29, 1987 until April 23, 1989, al-Majid was granted power that was equivalent, in Northern Iraq, to that of the President himself, with authority over all agencies of the state.
In the largest chemical attack of all, the March 16 bombing of the Kurdish town of Halabja, between 3,200 and 5,000 residents died.
There is a great deal of documentary evidence to support this view, beginning with a presidential order of October 15, 1987--two days before the census--that "the names of persons who are to be subjected to a general/blanket judgment must not be listed collectively.
hrw.org /reports/1993/iraqanfal/ANFALINT.htm   (6014 words)

 Hurricane Hugo Damage - Prepare - Hurricane Coming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In September 1989, Hurricane Hugo caused at least $500 million in damage, and 1,000 U.S. troops were sent in to suppress looting and unrest.
HUGO 1989 Devastated the West Indies and the Southeastern...
Hurricane Hugo of September 1989 caused severe damage to the rain forest in the north-east corner...
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 CBC News Indepth: London Bombing
An IRA bomb kills five people at a Brighton resort in October, during the annual conference of the Conservative party.
In February the IRA bombs an army barracks at Tern Hill in Shropshire.
In April, one person is killed by an IRA bomb in the Bishopsgate area of London's financial district.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/london_bombing/uk_historyattacks.html   (456 words)

1984 IRA bomb in the Grand Hotel Brighton 5 are killed in an attempt to kill members of the British cabinet.
1993 July 5 the IRA detonate a 1500lb car bomb (the largest used in Northern Ireland) in the centre of Newtownards in Northern Ireland, no one is killed but massive property damage is caused to the town centre.
2004 February 27 Superferry 14 is bombed in the Philippines by Abu Sayyaf, killing 116.
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 Serbian Orthodox Church - Article on Kosovo
However, the presence of bombs In the Adriatic would also corroborate reports that some NATO pilots were dropping their bombs and missiles over the Adriatic rather than on Yugoslavia.
The NATO bombing of petroleum and chemical Installations in the Belgrade area is threatening a large scale ecological disaster as dangerous chemicals such as phosgene, chlorine, hydrochloric acid, naphtha, ethylene dichloride and transformer oil are released into the atmosphere or into the Danube and seep into underground water supplies.
The extensive bombing of bridges and the pollution of portions of the Danube River have had economic repercussions for Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Rumania, and Bulgaria, since all traffic and trade on the waterway have been halted.
www.serbianorthodoxchurch.net /historyofchurch/article   (5863 words)

 Second Reagan-Mondale Debate
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 PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Winter 1999-2000
Far from achieving a decisive victory, the duration of the bombing and its limited effectiveness allowed Serbia to broker a deal whereby Russia, a traditional ally, joined the occupation forces under the auspices of the United Nations.
To end the war without Milosevic's concurrence, his political supporters, the army, and the people would have to come to a consensus that it was more in their interests to accede to NATO demands than it was to continue to resist.
The controversy over bomb damage assessments is reminiscent of the Air Force's Commando Hunt Reports from the air war against the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos during the latter stages of the Vietnam War.
carlisle-www.army.mil /usawc/Parameters/99winter/tilford.htm   (6522 words)

Nighttime bombing is bad enough, especially when all the primary targets have already been destroyed; so these urban attacks are down to the level of attempting psychological warfare --which we know does not work.
It is also foolish-to-vicious to use cluster bombs or MLRS cluster bomb barrage rockets in farm country, such as Kosovo or Vojvodina, because up to a third of the grenades fail to explode on impact and lie around waiting for some innocent or fool to happen by.
She died from the bomb that missed the telephone exchange, her family gravesite broken by the bomb that missed the fuel depot.
www.siri-us.com /backissues/1999/SIT-5-8_Kosovo-BombingMania.htm   (4247 words)

 Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Cinema gold. Thank you.
The attack is attributed to Carlos on behalf of the O.L.A. October 12: Brighton hotel bombing by the IRA: 5 are killed in an attempt to kill members of the British cabinet.
September 22: Deal barracks bombing: Eleven Royal Marines bandsmen are killed and 22 injured when base in Deal, Kent, is bombed by the IRA.
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 Annual 1989-1990 Chapter IV Guatemala
During its 76th session, held between September 18 and 29, 1989, the IACHR took up the official invitation from the Government of Guatemala to have the IACHR conduct an on-site visit to Guatemala.
He stated that this constituted a great challenge “to our convictions.” Finally, the chief of state said that the government had decided to use all its forces to deal with the terrorism event though some persons associated with state security organizations might be implicated.
In dealing with the topic of administering justice and human rights in Guatemala, and trying to present the problem in its real proportions, the Ambassador of Guatemala to the OAS, Mr.
www.cidh.oas.org /annualrep/89.90eng/chap4c.htm   (4922 words)

 21ma.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
June 4 - Solidarity's victory in the first partly free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland is the first of many anti-communist revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989 (almost all of them peaceful).
September 22 - Deal barracks bombing: An IRA bomb explodes at the Royal Marine School of Music in Deal, United Kingdom, leaving 11 dead and 22 injured.
November 28 - Cold War: Velvet Revolution - With other Communist regimes falling all around it and with growing street protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces they will give up their monopoly on political power (elections held in December bring the first non-communist government to Czechoslovakia in more than 40 years).
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 Special Report
Ostrovsky, who is careful in what he writes, does not blame Mossad for the bombing, only a couple of weeks after the Trojan was installed, of La Belle Discothèque in West Berlin, which cost the lives of two American soldiers and a Turkish woman.
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 Newshound: Links to daily newspaper articles about Northern Ireland
The same strategem is being used in the Republic to deal with two festering controversies both of which feature allegations of dirty tricks by British intelligence south of the Border.
One is the 1974 bombing of Dublin and Monaghan by Loyalists and the other the 1976 murder of Dundalk man, Seamus Ludlow whose killing by Loyalists is alleged to have been covered up by an unholy alliance of British intelligence and the Garda Special Branch.
His hearings are held in private - hotel rooms are said to be a favourite venue - and none of the relatives are allowed to have legal counsel present to cross-examine witnesses.
www.nuzhound.com /articles/moloney2001/mo12-2-1.htm   (1465 words)

 Letters from the American Desert - 1989 - 1994   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Whatever the intentions of Gorbachev, they are quite outside the experience that brought humankind to the League of Nations and the United Nations and are grounded in the dialectic--that pernicious doctrine that all Soviet leaders have repeatedly used to such wretched ends--yet apparently few in the West remember the individual suffering of the murdered millions.
And whatever our rhetoric in public may be, we continue to commit such transgressions of the UN Charter as the bombing of Libya and the invasions of Grenada and Panama--actions that further erode international restraint and stability and that further demonstrate we have lost all true commitment to the ideals of the Charter.
I won't go into all the risible details of my attempting to deal with a Bahá'í publisher in England, but, suffice it to say, my work proved to be so far beyond them it was pitiful.
www.fglaysher.com /LettersAmD1989-1994.htm   (21227 words)

 6. Lebanon: 1982-1984
An essential part of the deal would be the deployment of a Multinational Force (MNF) to facilitate the process.
This was retaliation for the bombing of the French barracks on October 23.
The particular tragedy of the Marine barracks, like the repeated bombing of our embassies, was the result of negligent and poor security measures.
www.rand.org /pubs/conf_proceedings/CF129/CF-129.chapter6.html   (7211 words)

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