April 1999 London in the UK was the centre of an unprecedented terror attack. A lone right-wing fanatic went on a one-man rampage killing three people and injuring hundreds. Crimes that Shook Britain s2e3: The London Nail Bombings, 2011
The make-shift bomb packed with nails and stuffed into a plastic box had been sat at Brixton Market for over thirty minutes. ibid.
The bomb had originally been placed at a bus-stop then moved three times before detonating outside the Iceland store. ibid.
Brick Lane: Almost to the hour, seven days on from Brixton, police were dealing with another terrorist attack. ibid.
The terrorist had struck a third time. The device tore through Soho causing the biggest devastation so far. ibid.
He freely discussed his reign of terror. ibid.
Copeland was adamant he acted alone. ibid.
On 15th August 1998 Omagh in Northern Island was hit by one of the worst single atrocities ever to hit the province. A five hundred pound bomb exploded in a small market town on a busy Saturday afternoon. Twenty-nine people and two unborn children were murdered when an incorrect warning was given. Crimes that Shook Britain s3e5: Omagh Bombing
The Real IRA had claimed responsibility but no individuals were held accountable. ibid.
Why had such crucial evidence not been shared? ibid.
250 victims have been injured. ibid.
One man Colin Murphy is on trial. ibid.
The Ombudsman also found some of the Special Branch officers uncooperative. ibid.
Five years later his [Murphy] sentence would be quashed altogether. ibid.
The families sued those responsible. ibid.
Not one criminal conviction has yet been successful. ibid.
The Manchester terror attack was a crime that shook Britain. On the night of 22nd May 2017 at a little after 10.30 pm pop singer Ariana Grande had just finished her performance at the Manchester Arena … The realisation that this could only have been a bomb. Crimes that Shook Britain s8e1: Manchester
I feel nothing ... I did what I had to do. David Copeland
I think perfectly British people have a right to ethnic cleanse. I couldn’t help it. I had to do it. David Copeland
Nail bomber David Copeland has failed in his bid to reduce his minimum jail term of 50 years.
Copeland was given six life sentences in June 2000 for three counts of murder and three counts of causing explosions in London in order to endanger life.
Copeland, 35, from Hampshire, admitted killing three and injuring 139 people.
Under new legislation, a High Court judge set a minimum term of 50 years and the Court of Appeal upheld that sentence on Tuesday. BBC online article 28th June 2011, ‘Nail bomber David Copeland loses sentence appeal’
The Inquisition is getting hold of the bomb. See if that cheers you up. But it’s OK – it’s faith-based. Christopher Hitchens, lecture Islam and the West
Mildly radioactive and essentially safe. Ministry of Defence commentary on uranium-tipped bombs, BBC Breakfast News January 2001
At least seven betting shops have been bombed in the last six to nine months. A pattern which looks horribly like the Chicago days of the 1930s where the mobs moved in on gambling. BBC News
11th October 1984 Brighton: the Conservative Party faithful gathered for their annual conference at the celebrated Grand Hotel ... A deadly explosive package hidden behind a bath panel in Room 629. At 2:54 a.m. the bomb exploded. Brighton Bombing: Minute by Minute, Channel 5 2014
I don’t regret selling bombs. Bill Ayers
The bombs are like falling rain. Cambodian child, 1973
Extremely powerful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed. Albert Einstein, letter to Franklin Roosevelt
In the history of modern warfare one day stands out above all others – the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Days that Shook the World s1e4: Hiroshima, BBC 2003
08.16 5TH August 1945: a bomb that will change the world for ever. ibid.
The bomb, named Little Boy, is wheeled out of its hangar. ibid.
Over 100,000 people and 47,000 buildings are quite literally obliterated. ibid.
‘This is the greatest thing in history’. ibid. President Truman
Six miles above the people of Lockerbie there’s an explosion aboard 103. Days that Shook the World s1e8: Black September/Lockerbie
A three hundred foot fireball engulfs the town. ibid.
There were twelve children under the age of ten on board. ibid.
The V bombers were so advanced it took a crew of five highly trained men to fly them. Cold War, Hot Jets II, BBC 2013
The bomb had become a bargaining tool. ibid.
The campaign for nuclear disarmament had begun. ibid.
That summer in 1976 – 36 bombs exploded in Cleveland. Kill the Irishman 2011 starring Ray Stevenson & Val Kilmer & Christopher Walken & Linda Cardellini & Marcus Thomas & Vinnie Jones & Tony Lo Bianco & Paul Sorvino & Laura Ramsey & Mike Starr & Bob Gunton et al, director Jonathan Hensleigh
Gaddafi was acutely jealous of other people’s bombs. Mad Dog: Gaddafi’s Secret World, BBC 2014
A suitcase from Malta has made its way through Frankfurt and is being loaded on to a jumbo jet bound for New York. At two minutes past seven the plane explodes killing everyone on board and eleven people on the ground as it causes carnage in the Scottish town of Lockerbie. Lockerbie: Terror at 31,000 Feet, Channel 5 2014
Primed and ready to go, the bomb in the suitcase was placed on Flight KM180 from Malta’s international airport. ibid.
Across the town there was devastation. ibid.
Blackmail Won Lockerbie Release. The Sunday Times headline February 2011
Consigned to a scrap-yard in Lincolnshire the remains of a jumbo jet. She was called Maid of the Seas – 747 clipper of the proud Pan Am Fleet. This is her story. It was 21st December 1988. Travellers were hurrying home for Christmas. Pan Am flight 103 was leaving London bound for New York and on to Detroit. Many of her passengers had joined the plane from a connected flight which had just come in from Frankfurt. At 7 o’clock the 747 was approaching the Scottish borders. Nearly six miles below in the town of Lockerbie families were settling down for Christmas. At three minutes past seven Air Traffic Control lost contact with Pan Am flight 103. BBC The Conspiracy Files – Lockerbie, BBC 2008
The motive? Just five months before Lockerbie, the USS Vincent was on patrol in the gulf. Cameras on board captured the drama unfold as the American warship infringed Iranian waters and then shot down what they presumed as a hostile Iranian fighter. Only it wasn’t. It was an Iranian civilian plane on a scheduled flight. Two hundred and ninety passengers and crew were killed. Radio Tehran broadcast threats that the skies would rain blood in revenge. Ahmed Jibril had close links to Iran, and just two months before the attack on Pan Am, West German police arrested members of his faction in Frankfurt. And ... they found more highly incriminating evidence – bombs hidden in cassette radios designed to blow up at altitude. There was plenty of circumstantial evidence that the cell was planning to attack aircraft. But no proof linking them to Lockerbie. ibid.
Juval Aviv runs a corporate investigation agency and claims to be a former MOSAD agent. After the crash Pan Am hired him because they wanted to find out exactly what had gone wrong – vital information in the inevitable legal battle for compensation that would ensue in the American courts. Aviv reported back with the most controversial of the Lockerbie conspiracy theories – that CIA agents had allowed the bomb to be planted on board the jumbo jet. This is his theory: rogue elements in the CIA were running a top-secret operation to allow Middle East terrorists to smuggle drugs into America via Frankfurt Airport. In return the CIA hoped to receive help in securing the release of American terrorist held in Beirut. And Aviv claims none other than Ahmed Jibril infiltrated the plot. ibid.