Provisional IRA aimed to bomb Buckingham Palace
October 28, 2009 by Infowars Ireland
IRA terrorists behind a two-year bombing campaign in the 1970s compiled lists of hundreds of possible targets, including MPs, soldiers and Buckingham Palace, newly released files revealed yesterday.
Police found a huge number of names and addresses when they raided a north London flat used as an IRA bomb factory after the Balcombe Street siege of December 1975.
A list of the potential targets was prepared for then-prime minister Harold Wilson. It included high-profile visitor attractions in the heart of the English capital such as the British Museum, Madame Tussauds, the National Gallery, the Imperial War Museum and the Tate Gallery.
Also listed were the Queen’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace, University College, London, the Stock Exchange and Brixton and Wormwood Scrubs prisons.
Detectives found evidence that the terrorists were also considering less well-known targets, including power stations, aerodromes, shooting ranges, water pumping stations and sewage works. The previously secret list, made public by the National Archives, includes the dates and venues of specific functions, among them events held by the British Law Society, the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and the Combined Cadet Defence Corps.
The list was prepared by the Special Branch based on items found in a flat occupied by the terrorists in north London.
The original document is 86 pages long, but dozens of pages including the names of individuals have not been released.
Among the excluded sections are 23 pages listing “MPs, Lords and other civilian personnel”, nine pages listing police officers and 35 pages listing named military personnel. Read full article…
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the irish republican army whom are 1 of the most sophisticated armys in the world,it in my mind was unfortunately that buckingham palace as well as the brighton bombing were successful to a certain extent,especially when they missed the biggest terroist in the world,this tramp murdered 10 loyal irish men 1 mr bobby sands who was an mp at that time in 1981 she lied,totured and killed innocent women and children.i could go on.why did the hated royalty try noy to interven.i myself have no sympathy for those english soldiers coming from countries they should not be in ie iraq,afghanistan in coffins drapped with the butchers apron the more i see the better i feel.the english tramps raped,killed women and children and burnt them from there homes,they are barbaric scum.to the wannabee loyalist english GET OUT but the loyalist communities are to busy killing there own people dealing drugs 1 example the shoukri bros 1 down 1 to go.i just heard peter robinsons wife likes a bit on the side poor peter i guess trying and talking rubbish she maybe wants like myself an all ireland .GOD BLESS OUR GREAT SOLDIERS OFF 1981 AND THE HEROS BEFORE THEM MAY THEY REST IN PEACE.GOD BLESS ARE POPE.and may all you english rot in hell.reason for sending wasnt sure it went thru thanx for ur help