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Korean jet, 186
letter, 137, 152–3
Lockerbie, 151, 185
Malatya City, 162–3
nail, 116–17
New Addington Police Station parcel, 157–9, 161–2
Nite Bite Snack Bar, 119
Old Bailey car, 146
Oxford Street, 191–202
Paddington Green Police Station, 94–6
Pan Am jumbo, 185
parcel, 99, 157–9, 162–3, 169
public’s offers of help with, 135–6
QE2 hoax, 100
Reubens Hotel, 173–5
Staples Corner, 213–14
Swissair jet, 98
warnings, 149–50, 193, 211
Wimpy Bar, 191–202
Bomb Data Centres, 130–1
booby-traps, 87, 117, 121–3, 167, 174, 188–9, 198
Bourne and Hollingsworth bomb hoax, 192–3
Brahmer, Alan, 101–2
Bramley, Ammunition Repair Methods Development Unit, 85
Bramley School of Ammunition, 34–7
Brighton bomb, the Grand Hotel, 3, 171–3, 175
British Army on the Rhine (BAOR), 27, 37–8, 169
British Forces Broadcasting Service, car bomb alert, 144–6
Brogan, Tom, 197–8
Bungalow, The (Met’s Explosives Office premises), 128–39
Butler, Edward, IRA terrorist, 169
Byford, Sir Lawrence, 163
‘Candle’ charge, 111–13
Cannon Row Police Station, 1, 128–9
car bombs, 104, 106–12, 139, 140–7, 165, 214
Clarke, Andy, 129, 144–5, 214–15
Clary, Peter, 153
Conservative Party Conference, 1984, 171–3
Conventional Munitions Disposal (CMD), 38, 85–7, 94, 128, 133
Czechoslovakia, 22, 151
Damascus, 181
Dean Stanley Street car bomb, 144–6
Debenhams, Oxford Street, 192–201
Doherty, Hugh, 169
Downing Street, mortar attack on, 1–8, 130, 191
Duggan, Harry, IRA terrorist, 169
Edgson, Audrey, 169
Egypt, 56–80
El Al flight, attempted bombing of, 176–85
equipment, bomb-disposal, 91, 132–3
explosives
commercial, 143, 151–2
co-op mixture, 107, 142
plastic, 151–2
sniffer dogs, 168, 200
Explosives Office, 1, 207–9
Explosives Ordnance Disposal (EOD), 84, 86, 94, 96–7, 103, 105, 107, 117, 132, 207–8
false alarms, 105, 154, 157, 218
Fletcher, WPC Yvonne, 188–90
Forensic Explosives Laboratory, the, 172–3
Frankfurt Airport, 185
Froude, Major Phil, 37–40, 55
fuzes, bomb, 4, 41–2, 59–62, 67
Gaddafi, Colonel, and the IRA, 151
Gieves & Hawkes, Savile Row, explosion at, 132–3
Girdwood Park Barracks, Belfast, 104, 113
Glasgow, IRA safe house, 173
Goad, Maureen, 156
Goad, Roger, 82, 129, 135–6, 139, 153–6, 164, 169
Grand Hotel, bomb at, 171–3, 175
Great Scotland Yard car bomb explosion, 146
Greek Embassy bomb, 81, 91–4
Gurney, Sheridan, 216
Gurney, Timothy, 82, 216
Gurney, Vivienne, 82, 216
Hamilton-Fairey, Gordon, murder of, 169
Hammersmith Broadway bomb alert, 136–7
Harrods, bomb explosion, 210–12, 214
IRA incendiary device at, 147
Harvey Nichols, IRA incendiary device at, 147
Haydar, Dr, Syrian Ambassador, 181
Heathrow Airport, 99–100, 178
Henderson, Don, 129
Hilton Hotel, IRA murder at, 169
Hindawi, Nezar Nawaf Mansour, 176–85
hoaxes, bomb, 84, 100, 105, 150, 157, 213, 218
Horse Guards Parade, 3, 6–7
Horsham, Surrey charitable association, attack on, 160
Howorth, Anne, 204–5
Howorth, Ken, 82, 129, 133–5, 139, 164, 188, 194–206
Howorth, Steven, 204
Howorth, Sue, 204
Improvised Explosive Device Disposal (IEDD), 86–7, 106, 108, 110–11, 130–1
incendiary devices, 107, 147–8, 169, 213
IRA (Irish Republican Army)
bomb attacks (see also names of individual incidents and locations), 126–7
bomb-makers, 65, 165–75
car-bomb campaign, 104, 106–12, 139–47, 165, 214
‘coded calls’ system, 150
and hoax calls, 213
incendiary device campaigns, 107, 147–8, 169, 213
letter-bomb campaign, 137–8, 152–3
in London, 140–56, 173–5, 191–202, 213–14
propaganda, and the media, 151
seaside resorts bombing campaign, 173–4
shootings, 121–3, 213
strategies and tactics, 204, 213
Israeli Bomb Squad, 130
Iranian Embassy siege, 186–90
Kensington Church Street, IRA murder at, 153–6, 164, 169
Korean jet, bombing of, 186
Lascelles, Thomas David, 161–2
letter bombs, 137, 152–3
Liberty, IRA incendiary device at, 147
Libya, 65–80
Colonel Gaddafi and the IRA, 151
terrorist training centres, 170
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Peoples’ Bureau of the Socialist People’s, 188
Lloyd, Robert Anthony, murder of, 169
Lockerbie bomb, 151, 185
London
IRA and, 140–56, 173–5, 213–14
Long Kesh Internment Centre, 170
McDonnell, Gerald, IRA terrorist, 173, 175
McWhirter, Ross, murder of, 169
Magee, Patrick Joseph, IRA terrorist, 170–5
Maidenhead Police Station, 165, 167
Major, Prime Minister John, 1–8
Malatya city parcel bomb, 162–3
Manning, PC Damian, 193
Markov, Georgi, murder of, 169
Mars-Jones, Mr Justice, 182
Matthews, John and Sheila, 167–8
Maudling, Reginald, 152–3
Memo-Park Timer, 94, 199
methyl nitrate, 185–6
Metropolitan Police
Anti-Terrorist Branch of the 133, 181, 200
Explosive Office, 87–8, 128–39, 186–90, 207–9
Miller, Peter, 109–10
Military Vehicles Experimental Establishment (MVEE), 109
Mines Anti-Tank, 59–62, 67–9
Moro, Aldo, murder of, 169
mortar attack on Downing Street, 1–8
munitions clearance, 43–52, 63, 65–9
Murphy, Ann, 175–85
NAAFI, 19, 27, 78
National Service, 29–55
Nelson’s Pillar, Dublin, bomb, 85
Netheravon, Wiltshire, 10–21
New Addington Police Station parcel bomb, 157–9, 161–2
New Scotland Yard, 3, 140–7
Nite Bite Snack Bar, bombing of the, 119–20
Northern Ireland (see also Belfast), 85–6, 103–27
O’Connell, Martin Joseph, IRA terrorist, 168
O’Dwyer, Ella, IRA terrorist, 173, 175
Old Bailey, 146, 169, 182–3
Oxford Street bombs, IRA and, 191–202
Paddington Green Police Station, bomb attack on, 94–6
Palestinian terrorists, 94
Pan Am jumbo, alleged radio bomb on, 185
Parsons Barracks, Aldershot, 29–30
PE4 (Plastic Explosive 4), 151–2
protective clothing, bomb disposal, 88–9, 116, 132–3
public and IRA bombing campaign, London, 142–3, 149–50
QE2 bomb-threat hoax, 100
Queen’s
Picture Gallery, Buckingham Palace, 173
RAF, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, 100–3
Red Brigade murders, 169
Reilly, Detective Constable, 160–1
Reubens Hotel, bomb at, 173–5
Reuters News Agency, 193
Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC), 27–8, 42, 113
Royal Engineers, 188
Royal Garden Hotel, Kensington, 181
Royal Hampshire Regiment, the, 15
Royal Marines, Commando Group of, 113
Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), 106, 173
ScanRay equipment trials, Swedish, 96–8
Scotts restaurant, IRA murder at, 169
seaside resorts, IRA bombing campaign on, 173–4
secondary devices (see also booby traps), 90, 119
Semtex (plastic explosive), 151–2, 178, 180, 183, 214
Severn Bridge bomb hoax, 84
Sheldrake, John, 82
Sherry, Peter, IRA terrorist, 173, 175
sniffer dogs, 168, 200
Special Boat Service personnel, 102–3
Special Patrol Group (SPG), 140–1
Staples corner, IRA bomb explosion at, 213–14
Stephenson, Detective Inspector, 160
Sunday Times, 37
Swan & Edgar, IRA incendiary device at, 147
Suez Canal, 58, 61–2, 69–70
Syria, 181–2
Thatcher, Mrs Margaret (now Baroness), 3, 171–3, 175
timers, 93–4, 106–7, 116, 170, 173, 180–2, 199
Times, The, 36–7
TNT, 63–4, 68
Treasury Green, 3
Turkey, 162–4
Ulster Defence Regiment, 113
Wallace, PC David, 192–3
Walton’s Restaurant, IRA murder at, 169
Wehrmacht ammunition, 51, 53–4
Welsh extremists campaign, 83–5
Wiggins, Frank, 56–9, 62
Wilson, Ronnie, 129
Wimpy Bar bomb, 191–202
Winner, Michael, 188
Women’s Royal Voluntary Service (WRVS), 77–8
X-ray machines and bomb disposal, 91, 96–8, 133, 185
Yardley, Colonel Alan, 103
Yemen, murder of President of North, 169
Acknowledgements
The author wishes to express his thanks to: Howard Reynolds, without whom this book would not have been written; my wife, Sheridan, who, despite my denials, insisted my life was of interest to others; Sir David Nicholas, Terry Spooner and the Press Association for their immeasurable assistance; Val Hudson and Karen Whitlock at HarperCollins, and Don Short, who not only believed I had a book, but proved it.
About the Author
PETER GURNEY was head of the Explosives Section of the Metropolitan Police Anti-Terrorist Branch until he retired in December 1991. He has two children and lives with his wife in south-east England.
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