From: Charlie Stross <charlie@antipope.org>
>'Fraid I disagree. Case in point: the history of Northern Irish
>republican groups prior to the current (rather tenuous, but
>prolonged) cease-fire.
>In 1991-94, the Provisional IRA demonstrated that if it wanted to
>it could inflict massive economic damage on the British mainland.
>A single active service unit (four committed guerillas) took out
>a bridge at the interesection of the M1 motorway and the North
>Circular, causing massive traffic disruption in London. They then
>went on and critically damaged an office block in the City.
>Combined effect of these explosions was a repair bill in excess of
>UKP 1Bn (about $1.5Bn). In a related train of incidents they
>distributed cigarrette-sized incendiary bombs, stuffed
>into cracks in the seats of tube and commuter trains. Using
>code-words and phoned messages they amplified the impact of this
>campaign so that there were 10 false alarms for each actual
>incident. (Even living outside London and not using the tube for
>commuting, I got caught in about three evacuations during the
>18-month period of that campaign.)
Sounds like a bit of trouble.
Gee, maybe if the english got the hell out of where they don't
belong they wouldn't have these problems....
Brian
Member:
Extropy Institute, www.extropy.org
Adler Planetarium www.adlerplanetarium.org
Life Extension Foundation, www.lef.org
National Rifle Association, www.nra.org, 1.800.672.3888
Mars Society, www.marssociety.org
Ameritech Data Center Chicago, IL, Local 134 I.B.E.W
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Jul 27 2000 - 14:09:48 MDT