@Pinochet73,
Pinochet73;46457 wrote:Yeah. 911. Ever heard of it?
That's a car isn't it? Porsche 911 Carrera!!
Well fortunately I don't condem Billions of people due the atrocities of a few.
I lived in Germany growing up when the IRA were at their most active on the European Continent. A girl in my class had her dads leggs blown off and seven of his squad were killed when the mini bus they were in was blown up. i lived in the city where a baby was killed when shots were fired into a car. My cousins best friend was shot dead in front of him, My best friends parents were in the Officers Mess In JHQ Rheindaland when a car bomb was let off outside the buliding. My dad did two tours In Northern Ireland and had a nervous breakdown on his second toue of duty. KIDS throwing Dummy bombs over the walls. Getting in and out of Ireland as an Individual in the back of a truck with a sidearm fearing he would be blown up. I had to go to school every day under armned guard, i was told 'NEVER' to pick anything up outside, 'EVER' for fear it was a bomb. My dad had to check his car 'EVERY' sngle time he had to use it in case there was a bomb under the car. 'EVERY' single day for 18 years we lived with the fact we could be killed by the IRA at any moment, 'EVERY' single serviceman and his family did. Thousands of civilians killed in 30 years, hundereds of British troops dead.
Do I hate he IRA? You best be betting your ******* bottom Dollar I do. Do I hate the Irish people? Of course I bloody don't, how ridiculous to blame a whole country for the actions of a few.
Edit Stats- According to the CAIN research project at the University of Ulster, [84] the Provisional IRA was responsible for the deaths of 1,821 people during the Troubles up to 2001. This figure represents 48.4 percent of the total fatalities in the conflict.
621 of these casualties were civilians.
A total of 655 were British armed forces; 465 from the British Army, 190 were from the Ulster Defence Regiment (a part time local British Army reserve unit).
272 were members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, 14 were former Royal Ulster Constabulary members, six were British Police, 20 were Northern Ireland Prison Service officers, two were former prison officers.
A further 35 were loyalist paramilitaries (21 Ulster Defence Association (UDA), three former UDA, 11 Ulster Volunteer Force).
Six were Garda? and one was Irish Army.
About 180 were republican paramilitaries, including 12 Official IRA members, one Irish People's Liberation Organisation member, 63 alleged informers and 103 accidental deaths of Provisional IRA members due to premature explosions.
Another detailed study,[85] gives the following figures for people killed by the Provisional IRA up to 2004:
644 civilians,
456 British military (including British Army, RAF, Royal Navy, and Territorial Army), 273 Royal Ulster Constabulary (including RUC reserve), 182 Ulster Defence Regiment,
163 Republican paramilitary members (including from the IRA),
28 loyalist paramilitary members, 23 Northern Ireland Prison Service officers, 7 Garda? or Irish Army, and five British police officers (Lost Lives, page 1536).
Lost Lives therefore concludes that the Provisional IRA was responsible for a total of 1,781 deaths to date. It has also been estimated that the IRA injured 6,000 British Army, UDR and RUC and up to 14,000 civilians, during the Troubles.[86]
The IRA lost 276 members during the Troubles according to the CAIN figures. Lost Lives states that 294 Provisional IRA members died in the Troubles.[87] In addition, many members of Sinn F?in were killed, some of whom were also IRA members, but this was not publicly acknowledged. An Phoblacht gives a figure of 341 IRA and Sinn F?in members killed in the Troubles, indicating between 50-60 Sinn F?in deaths if the IRA deaths are subtracted.[88