After hours of trawling through recovered CCTV footage the blurred image of a potential suspect was discovered. ibid.
By the end of 1950 the US has amassed over 350 atomic bombs. Cold War Armageddon s1e2, Discovery History 2017
A Friday morning in New York. Thousands of people are downtown. But this is a day unlike any other. Because the hunt for the world’s most wanted man begins now. Terrorists attack the World Trade Centre. But this is not 9/11. It’s eight years earlier. A 1,500 truck bomb rips a 100 foot hole through 4 levels of World Trade Centre Tower 1. CIA Declassified s1e3: The Real Zero Dark Thirty
Al Qaeda: This is their very first strike outside a Muslim nation. ibid.
Mrs Thatcher is driven to Brighton to receive the cheers of the Conservative Party Conference. It’s the height of the miners’ strike. Peter Taylor, The Brighton Bomb, BBC 2004
At the heart of the bomb was a long-delay timer identical to those dug up nine months ago in the forest. ibid.
The man whose job it is to hunt the bomber has been roused from his bed. ibid.
Friday August 7th 1998: Two men in a delivery truck set off from a suburb of the Kenyan capital Nairobi. In the back, 1,600 pounds of explosives. 45 minutes later the truck pulls up at the rear entrance of the United States’ embassy … Over 200 were killed, thousands more were injured. Peter Taylor, Age of Terror 4/4: War on the West, BBC 2008
This is the story of unheeded warnings, missed opportunities, the slaughter of innocence. Osama bin Laden’s war on the West is the latest bloody chapter in the Age of Terror. ibid.
A second truck bomb exploded at the US embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. ibid.
On 12th October 1984 the IRA launched a deadly attack at the heart of the British government. In 2022 the man who planted ‘the Brighton bomb’ gave an interview about his role in the plot. Bombing Brighton: The Plot to Kill Thatcher, BBC 2024
27th March 1986 was just a regular day in the heart of Melbourne. But just after 1 p.m. that normality was shattered when a car bomb exploded outside the city’s police headquarters. Crimes that Shook Australia s2e3: The Russell Street Bombings, 2016
The Russell Street taskforce were made aware of a bank robbery that took place just hours after the bombing. ibid.
Police raided three addresses connected to Reed and his brother. ibid.
‘The Robbery Squad members who went to Peter Reed’s address were met with gunfire.’ ibid. rozzer
The bomber was a man called Salman Abedi born in Manchester … For a young man he would have had some sort of instruction on it. Manchester: The Night of the Bomb, rozzer, BBC 2018
‘I saw my legs on fire and then I was unconscious.’ ibid. victim
‘A few bodies, body parts, a pile of muscle or fat or something.’ ibid.
Many casualties were parents waiting for their children. ibid.
The bomber Salman Abedi was found dead at the scene. ibid.
We are at war and the battlelines have been redrawn. Terrorism can strike anywhere. And everyone is a target. Science is peering into the dark heart of terror networks to find out why terrorists embrace unspeakable atrocities. Are they so different from us? Morgan Freeman’s Through the Wormhole s7s7: What Makes a Terrorist? Science 2016
In September 1940 death and destruction came to the streets of Britain on a scale never seen before or since. They called it the Blitz. In the space of little over eight months more than 450,000 bombs rained down on British soil. But in the midst of the chaos and confusion meticulous records were kept. Blitz: The Bombs that Changed Britain I, BBC 2018
A bomb falls on the east end of London on the very first night of the Blitz: 8 Martindale Road. This bomb changed lives. But it also exposed a social care system in crisis. What followed was a radical shift in attitudes towards the welfare of us all. And it began with one bomb. ibid.
Wave after wave of bombers began to hammer the London docks. ibid.
As many as one in ten bombs that fell during the Blitz were classified as UXBs. ibid.
A city in flames and a transport system in chaos. ibid.
March 1941 a bomb fell on a quiet suburban street in Hull. It destroyed lives. It entangled its victims in an extraordinary psychological study. A study that was used to support one of the most controversial wartime strategies the British government has ever carried out. And it began with one bomb. Blitz: The Bombs that Changed Britain II
By March 1941 the Luftwaffe had inflicted severe damage on London. They now set their sights on other cities. ibid.
In the course of the War nearly 500,000 tons of allied bombs were dropped on German cities. ibid.
In one of the most brutal raids of the Blitz a bomb falls on Jellicoe Street in the Scottish town of Clydebank. This bomb and other like it shattered lives and threatened total defeat. Blitz: The Bombs that Changed Britain III
It killed everyone inside the tenement block. 31 people in all. ibid.
November 1940: The port city of Bristol is assailed by deadly weapon of mass destruction: more than 12,000 incendiary bombs fell on Bristol that night. Blitz: The Bombs that Changed Britain IV
‘And we will find out who did this ... will feel the full weight of justice.’ The Hunt for the Boston Bombers, Obama, Channel 4 2014
‘The captured suspect had been hit by a car, and shot: he died from his injuries.’ ibid. rozzer
264 people were injured in the Boston Marathon bombing. Three were killed. ibid. caption
Boston police and the FBI combed through 120,000 photographs and almost 13,000 video clips … These terrorists were home-grown. Breaking History: New Age of Terror II, 2017
‘All of a sudden there was some sort of explosion. I looked down to the left; you could see a plume of smoke at the finish line … I took probably about two steps then I saw the two flashes of white light at my feet. I could feel myself being propelled … I instantly saw a severed foot in front of my left leg on the ground; it had a little white sock on it … I then instantly knew that was my foot that was dangling …’ Days that Shaped America s1e2: Boston Bombing, History 2018, Roseann Sdoia
‘It was surreal; it looked like a war zone.’ ibid. rozzer William Evans
‘We had the video, now we just needed to identify who they are.’ ibid.
144 years ago Britain was at war with the IRA. In their deadliest attack on the mainland, 21 people were murdered in Birmingham after bombs exploded in two pubs. Six Irishmen were wrongly convicted of mass murder. Since then the police have investigated without success. Exposure: The Hunt for the Birmingham Bombers I, ITV 2018
At 8.17 on November 21st 1974 drinkers in the Mulberry Bush pub in Birmingham say the lights suddenly went out. Minutes later, 300 yards away, drinkers in the Tavern in the Town recall a blue flash followed by total darkness. ibid.
And [Chris] Mullin did just that concluding that four men were really responsible for the bombings. They agreed to talk to him providing he didn’t name them in the book. ibid.
The identity of the bombers will not be considered by the [new] inquest. ibid.