Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outlawed Irish Republican Army, the organization dedicated to uniting British-ruled Northern Ireland with the Irish Republic. The I.R.A. trio had been gunned down March 6 by a unit of Britain's Special Air Service regiment in Gibraltar, where, the British government said, the three had planned a terrorist bombing...
...cowered in terror, a group of enraged mourners pursued the retreating attacker, caught him several hundred yards away and beat him severely before he was rescued and arrested by men of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (R.U.C.), the Northern Ireland police ! force. After his arrest, according to police sources, the terrorist asked, "How many of the bastards did I kill?" The answer: three people dead. Some 60 others were injured, four seriously...
...funeral had seemed unthinkable. The incident raised worries not only in Belfast but also in London about a fresh cycle of sectarian violence: before the cemetery attack 14 civilians and members of the security forces had been killed in Ulster this year. In an effort to head off terrorist reprisals, Tom King, Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pleaded with both sides to avoid "revenge and retaliation"; otherwise, he said, "the mad cycle of violence will...
...assailant was quickly identified as Michael Stone, 32, a Belfast Protestant who is also being questioned about earlier terrorist acts. The Ulster Defense Association, a leading Protestant paramilitary organization, denied any affiliation with him and claimed to have had no involvement in the cemetery attack...
...their supersecret war on terrorism, U.S. intelligence agents routinely consult a specially developed computer system, programmed with the arcane knowledge of a handful of terrorism experts, to anticipate and avert terrorist actions. The year-old system has reportedly helped predict terrorist attacks in Western Europe...