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On 30 October 2022, a petrol bomb attack was perpetrated against a Border Force centre for processing migrants in Dover, Kent, England. Two people suffered minor injuries. After the attack, the suspect, a 66-year-old man from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, drove to a nearby petrol station where he killed himself.
The bombings weakened public support in the United States for the Irish republican cause. [3] The CIA and the FBI ramped up their anti-IRA activity, and public opinion polls showed that sympathy for the IRA in particular, and Irish re-unification in general, plummeted in the United States in response to the attacks.
Prime Minister Theresa May announced that the police had asked for military support and the request had been approved by Sir Michael Fallon, the Secretary of State for Defence. [6] The operation remained in force until the end of the bank holiday weekend, despite the threat level being reduced from critical to severe on 27 May. [7]
WASHINGTON/NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) -Law-enforcement officials in U.S. cities were beefing up security on Thursday after a deadly attack in New Orleans and an explosion outside a Trump hotel in Las ...
1 March 1992: An IRA bomb was defused by police at White Hart Lane train station in London. 23 October 1993: In Reading, Berkshire, an IRA bomb exploded at a signal post near the railway station, some hours after 5 lb (2 kg) of Semtex was found in the toilets of the station. The resulting closure of the railway line and evacuation of the ...
On 7 August, over 100 far-right and 30 counter protests were reportedly planned across the country in 41 of 43 police force areas in England and Wales, with their main focus being immigration centres and lawyers' offices. [161] However, very few far-right protesters turned out.
On 26 May, then United States secretary of state Rex Tillerson said the United States government accepted responsibility for the leaks. [84] A public inquiry into the attack was launched in September 2020. The first of three reports to be produced was a 200-page report published on 17 June 2021.
Investigators said man had "issues" with one of the residents, used an "illegal incendiary device" to damage residence in 900 block of Poplar Street.