1972 Aldershot bombing
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title:
1972 Aldershot bombing
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The 1972 Aldershot bombing was a car bomb attack by the Official Irish Republican Army on 22 February 1972 in Aldershot, England. The bomb targeted the headquarters of the British Army's 16th Parachute Brigade and was claimed as a revenge attack for Bloody Sunday. Six civilian staff and a Catholic military chaplain were killed and 19 were wounded. It was the Official IRA's largest attack in Great Britain during "the Troubles" and one of its last major actions before it declared a permanent cease
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1972 bombing by the Official IRA
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Aldershot_bombing
date created:
2006-04-13T04:29:04Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T00:04:45Z
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