Birmingham was no accident

Other survivors of the IRA's '˜war' must be concerned as I am by Peter Taylor's claim yesterday that attacking civilians in Birmingham 'did not fit into the IRA's strategy'.
By The Newsroom
Published 3rd Jun 2016, 15:12 BST
Updated 3rd Jun 2016, 16:17 BST
The wreckage left at the Mulberry Bush pub in Birmingham after a bomb exploded in November 1974. Photo: PA WireThe wreckage left at the Mulberry Bush pub in Birmingham after a bomb exploded in November 1974. Photo: PA Wire
The wreckage left at the Mulberry Bush pub in Birmingham after a bomb exploded in November 1974. Photo: PA Wire

There have been similar observations about Enniskillen, though Tullyhommon gave the lie to that. Set the same day, that bomb targeted the Boys’ and Girls’ brigades – some military.

Many people have made such observations, that match Sinn Fein-IRA’s PR playbook.

It is offensive tosh that is never challenged.

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It reflects a wider tolerance for the terrorist lie, among artists, singers and film producers: the same kinds of people that once had a love affair with the Soviet Union. Lenin called them ‘useful fools’.

All this only encourages republican self-delusion.

This community will never get anywhere until ex-terrorists admit what they did was not ‘accidental’, or ‘just war’ but ‘wrong’.

Then they can tell their children and grand-children the truth.

If not, they lay the foundations of another generation of mass-murderers.

J Charles Teggart, Bangor

Related topics:BirminghamIRAEnniskillenSinn Fein