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slvemike4u -> RE: Early Morning Chaos in Boston (4/19/2013 6:25:55 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Politesub53
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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u
Of course the definition of Police and Military targets was stretched to the breaking point by Collins and the IRA.
Flying squads were a Collins tactic ,squads which engaged in targeted assassinations as well as the use of the car bomb.
Both of these actions could,and in fact did,lead to civilian casualties.
The difference of course being that these casualties were NOT the stated goal of such actions but were,in fact,collateral victims.
I cant say I have ever read of the IRA using car bombs before the early 70s. Some plans had been made to use them on mainland targets in Britain but there was a truce before they were implemented.
Hmmm...Polite I think you might be right
I think I got some facts that float around in my head convoluted ,lol.
I read somewhere that the IRA was the first organization to use the car bomb as a terrorist tool.....and might have mistakenly ascribed such an event to Collins
My bad,everything else said about Collins stands though...but I would like to point out that none of it was meant to denigrate Collins,being Irish and seeing the righteousness of his cause,I have no wish too.....heck,Collins was involved in a declared war....brought an Empire to the bargaining table,went to that table and in good faith reached a truce agreement with said empire and in doing so knowingly signed his own death warrant .Churchill himself,who sat across that table representing the Empire, grew to admire and like Collins).
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