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Music torture was used against several detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Mohammed al-Qahtani, who was alleged to have attempted to participate in the September 11 attacks, was subjected to music, including songs in Arabic, during late night interrogations and medical treatment as a form of sleep deprivation. [18]
[1] [2] It was composed at some time in the early 1960s. [3] The setting of the song is the Dublin into which Behan was born in the late 1920s, and the main character in the song (who is calling his neighbours "Black and Tans"), is believed to be Behan's father, Stephen Behan , [ 4 ] who was a prominent Irish republican, and who had fought in ...
Operation Flavius (also referred to as the Gibraltar killings) was a military operation in which three members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) were shot dead by the British Special Air Service (SAS) in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988. [1] [2] The trio were believed to be planning a car bomb attack on British military personnel in ...
The song dates from the early 1970's, when the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) illegally imported various forms of weaponry, including the Armalite AR-18 rifle, from the United States. The ArmaLite AR-18 was for many years the most lethal weapon available to the IRA; for this reason, it became an iconic symbol of the IRA's armed campaign .
Ira Gershwin revised the lyrics and called the new version "Strike Up the Band for UCLA". [2] From that time, it became one of the primary school songs, and even served as the leitmotif and rally song for the school teams until Sons of Westwood and later Mighty Bruins became school songs. [ 1 ]
1 May: the IRA carried out a rocket attack on New Barnsley RUC station, Belfast. [182] 1 May: a British soldier was injured in an IRA attack in the New Lodge area of Belfast. [182] 2 May: an IRA volunteer (Finbarr McKenna) was killed in a premature bomb explosion during an attack on Springfield RUC base in Belfast. A woman nearby was injured.
“Time is rushing,” said Zailer, who has her own baby close in age to her cousin’s. “There’s a nine-month-old baby and a four-year-old child. And my aunt has Parkinson’s disease.”
They were stopped while riding a motorbike on a road opposite Narrow Water Castle. They were later released on bail due to lack of evidence. [33] Burns died in 1988 when a bomb he was handling exploded prematurely. [34] In 1998, former IRA member Eamon Collins claimed that Burns had been one of those who carried out the Warrenpoint ambush. [15]