Gaddafi was giving them plenty. They were not short of hardware or money. I'd think the Eksund incident helped pave the road to peace talks.
Gaddafi was giving them plenty. They were not short of hardware or money. I'd think the Eksund incident helped pave the road to peace talks.
He wasn't until the USA bombed his family from the UKGaddafi was giving them plenty. They were not short of hardware or money. I'd think the Eksund incident helped pave the road to peace talks.
The end of Libyan support predates the Major strategy though?
Rather than the Eksund getting lifted it was the incidents such as Warrington & young gets on the mainland getting spread across a town high street that didn't do them any favours over in the US. I'd suggest the impetus towards peace talks came from PIRA after that & the criticism they were getting across the globe. While there were many atrocities much worse than Warrington & the like, there was something in that & the other incidents around that time that meant the boyos had fcuked themselves. Couple that with the widespread penetration of the organisation by various touts & agents meant their home grown efforts, by & large, weren't working.
They hadn't done what Saint Gerry had declared to win the war through the ballot box and the armalite. They failed, the world had moved on and they were no longer acceptable. The huge inroads made by supergrass trials in the 80's showed that they were just criminals and nothing more.Lets all ignore the implications of that and pretend PIRA were defeated.
They hadn't done what Saint Gerry had declared to win the war through the ballot box and the armalite. They failed, the world had moved on and they were no longer acceptable. The huge inroads made by supergrass trials in the 80's showed that they were just criminals and nothing more.
Some on here claim it was all down to the EU.tbf GFA had majors support and his government did a lot of the legwork and letting scum out of jail in exchange for reducing to the annual toll of corpses to single figures and Ni becoming almost normal but we could have always carried on with the plan of having martin and gerry dead on a pile of dead terroristswhich unfortunately was never going to happen.
Some on here claim it was all down to the EU.
We should have passed an Order in Council and head jobbed the rebels in 1972. We knew who they were.No they don't...
The USA had terrorist attacks long before 9-11The supply of money was drying up too, when the USA had the first terrorist attack in history on 11/09.
But not an attack on the Nation State.The USA had terrorist attacks long before 9-11
FALN Puerto Rican Terrs responsible for several bombings in NYC
Los Macheteros
Croats in the 70's in NYC made several bombing attacks
And that doesnt count RW & LW terrs from the KKK to the Weathermen
Yes you poor poor dears only the UK was Ever a target![]()
The USA had terrorist attacks long before 9-11
FALN Puerto Rican Terrs responsible for several bombings in NYC
Los Macheteros
Croats in the 70's in NYC made several bombing attacks
And that doesnt count RW & LW terrs from the KKK to the Weathermen
Yes you poor poor dears only the UK was Ever a target![]()