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*Streets of Belfast*
*IRA Mural: 'Our Day Will Come'*
*IRA Mural: 'Victory to the IRA*
Child: "Hi!"
*British Army Patrol*
*British Army Military Base*
*RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) Stop and Search*
*British Army and RUC on foot patrol (West Belfast)*
News Report: "The ambush left a police Land Rover by a mids its roof, buckled by
the explosion that followed the impact of an RPG-7 warhead."
All four of the occupants were injured, one is in a critical condition
another very seriously ill
so what will be of concern to the security forces is that the IRA can
use effectively a mobile, compact weapon an RPG-7
against which Land Rover armour offers little protection against."
*IRA message on the wall: 'MICA DRIVE WAS A WARNING, STAY OUT OF BEECHMOUNT!' P.I.R.A (Provisional IRA)*
*IRA message on the wall: 'WELCOME TO ROCKMOUNT, P.I.R.A'*
BBC News Report: "The discovery by Ian Bentinson
at 'Guy's hospital in London
offers a chance to 1000's women breast cancer patients!" *Door Knocks* "BBC News Report: Every year 15,000 women die of breast cancer..."
BBC News Report: "...John Major says he's in for a..."
Man: "Just concentrate, come on."
IRA Man: "I'm a representative of the general headquarters of Óglaigh na hÉireann (Volunteers of Ireland)
IRA!
Camps are ongoing
this one here is a basic weapons camp and an
engineering camp, we have camps where we concentrate on sniping,
we have camps where we bring specific sets ok volunteers from specific active
service units for
their specific skills." Other IRA Man: "You have to make sure that your weapon
is always very clean, because a dirty weapon
could be the cost of your life!
The Barrel.
*Cough* Other IRA man (Training inspector):You remove this here,
and put the belt in with one round obviously to the breach,
in tight against this here. The clamp this down.
And whenever the belts ready and it is contained, the way
to stop it firing is to throw the belt over like this here.
We're not going to be firing yet for a little while!
IRA Man (Commander): Our strategy
is that through the effective
use of guerrilla warfare and through continually
maintaining an effective fighting force
we will eventually sap the political will of the British government to remain
in Ireland.
If the british government were prepared to show
even one iota of leadership and where to begin moves to disengage from
this country,
then the conflict would cease."
Journalist: "Are they the same type of devices that were fired at Downing Street?" IRA man: "The exact same device,
and one fired in Downing Street had
Semtex high explosives in them. 45lb's (22Kg) of Semtex."
American Journalist: "How do you acquire your arms?"
IRA man: "With extreme ingenuity, and there's no way that any representative of a guerrilla
organization is going to enter into a discussion of how we've been continually
supplied!"
*IRA Mark-11 Improvised Mortar (Barrack Buster)*
*IRA mortar 10 Downing Street (1991)*
*IRA Brighton Bombing, an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1984)*
Margaret Thatcher: "I just turned to
do one final paper and then none it went off. My husband was in bed
and all the windows went, and the bathroom was extremely damaged."
Journalist: "In your own room?In your room?" Margaret Thatcher: "Yes, Yes" Bodyguard: "I think that's enough." Margaret Thatcher: "We were very lucky."
IRA man: "I don't see any merit in discussing individuals as targets
suffice to say that the people who legislate
for the terror in Ireland, know well
that they all remain targets.
And I'm sure that Mrs Thatcher when she goes down
upon our knees with a mirror checking underneath her car every
morning remembers the terror she inflicted on Ireland."
*IRA arms interception off the coast of France on board the 'Eksund' travelling from Libya (1987)*