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They used to sit outside Palace Barracks and police stations taking number plates and then following or otherwise trying to find where they could bomb the vehicles - didn't matter of they were security forces or civilians (in their eyes, 'collaborators').
A mate was a painter decorator who was employed painting one of the bases. Instead of risking driving in, they had to be dropped in a field a few miles away and picked up by helicopter.
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Have a look at On This Day PIRA on FB. The ‘collateral damage’ is shocking.
Todays grim link https://fb.watch/hZ8Z13dHZb/
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Awful. Heard similar stories of just random bedford vans being hit and random bakers/builders/delivery drivers being killed because either side would ferry themselves round in the same vans.