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100 1  Hughes, Kieran|4aut 
245 10 Terror Attack Brighton|h[Elektronisk resurs] /|cKieran 
       Hughes 
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520    The Brighton bombing in 1984 was the most audacious 
       terrorist attack ever on the British Government. Certainly
       it was the most ambitious since the Gunpowder plot of 
       1605. The Provisional I.R.A. detonated a bomb at the Grand
       Hotel on 12th October 1984. Most of the Government were 
       staying at the hotel at the time. The Conservative party 
       was holding its annual conference in the town. Five people
       were killed in the explosion, and more than thirty were 
       injured.  It came very close to wiping out most of 
       the Government, including the Prime Minister, Margaret 
       Thatcher.  The I.R.A.'s Patrick Magee had booked into
       the Grand Hotel under the false name of Roy Walsh, about a
       month before. He planted a bomb with a long-delay timer, 
       hidden under a bath in one of the rooms. He was given 
       eight life sentences for the crime, but released from 
       prison in 1999 under the Good Friday Agreement. He served 
       just fourteen years behind bars.

It was one 
       of two IRA bombs aimed directly at the collective 
       Government of the day. The other was in February 1991&
       nbsp;when, at the height of the Gulf War security alert, 
       the I.R.A. fired a mortar bomb directly at Downing Street.
       The War Cabinet was in session to discuss the threat from 
       Saddam Hussein. The bomb was only yards from hitting the 
       Prime Minister and his senior colleagues. The Grand Hotel 
       bombing and the Downing Street bombing were 'different' to
       the IRA's other attacks. They were aimed directly at the 
       heart of the democratically elected Government of the day,
       particularly the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Other IRA 
       bombings either caused greater loss of life, resulted in 
       more injuries or were of a far greater financial cost. For
       example, attacks at Omagh in 1998 killed twenty-eight, the
       explosion in the City in London in 1993 cost one billion 
       pounds and the Manchester Shopping Centre bomb in 1996 saw
       two-hundred people hurt. Devastating as these attacks were,
       it can be argued that they were aimed at getting attention,
       disrupting democracy, costing the country money and 
       bullying their way to the political decision making 
       process. [Elib] 
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