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The PIRA engaged in an ongoing battle to gain the upper hand in electronic warfare with remote controlled devices.
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PIRA and engaged
In the early 1970s, at the height of the PIRA campaign, the British Army unit tasked with rendering safe IEDs, 321 EOD, sustained significant casualties while engaged in bomb disposal operations.
PIRA and electronic
However, some electronic delays developed by PIRA technicians could be set to accurately detonate a bomb weeks after it was hidden, which is what happened in the Brighton hotel bomb attack of 1984.
PIRA and with
He claimed the ambiguous nature of the province's status, with its own parliament and prime minister, gave hope to the PIRA that it could be detached from the rest of the UK:
He attempted to negotiate with the Provisional Irish Republican Army with the then PIRA Chief of Staff Seán MacStiofáin in July 1972.
The Ammunition Technicians of the Royal Logistic Corps ( formerly RAOC ) are highly experienced, after many years of dealing with bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( PIRA ) and other groups.
The roadside bomb was in use by PIRA from the early 1970s onwards, evolving over time with different types of explosives and triggers.
The PIRA came up with ever more sophisticated designs and deployments of IEDs.
The PIRA launched a violent campaign against the state of Northern Ireland, with the aim of creating a new, all-Ireland Irish Republic.
The King's first fatality was Corporal Alan Buckley, who died after being mortally wounded during an engagement with the PIRA.
Three men accused by the PIRA of collaborating with the security forces were abducted and their families held hostage.
Sinn Féin was associated in the past with the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( PIRA ), which killed 271 Royal Ulster Constabulary officers and 12 police officers outside Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and had refused to recognise the legal authority of the RUC or PSNI until that point.
It is only known that he had a son with ex-PIRA terrorist Catherine McCall named Joey, who was killed in an accidental explosion after he ignited some explosives at a PIRA safehouse.
Samoa Rugby Union were formerly members of the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance ( PIRA ) along with Fiji and Tonga.
The Fiji national rugby union team is a member of the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance ( PIRA ) formerly along with Samoa and Tonga.
They are members of the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance ( PIRA ) along with Fiji and Samoa.
The Fiji Rugby Union is a member of the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance ( PIRA ), along with Samoa and Tonga.
The Irish Republican Army ( 1922 – 1969 ) and its political wing, Sinn Féin went through periodic splits, most dramatically in 1969 when two IRAs emerged, the Official IRA ( OIRA ) and the Provisional IRA ( PIRA ), along with two Sinn Féins ; Sinn Féin-Gardiner Place or Official Sinn Féin and Sinn Féin-Kevin St or Provisional Sinn Féin.
They are members of the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance ( PIRA ) along with Fiji and Samoa.
* Libya supplied the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( PIRA ) with tonnes of Semtex — amongst other weapons.
In June 1982 two brothers of Margaret Murray were convicted in the United States in connection with the supplying of weapons to the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( PIRA ).
PIRA and devices
The bombs PIRA employed ranged from simple pipe bombs to sophisticated victim-triggered devices and infra red switches.
Members of the PIRA developed and counter-developed devices and tactics.
PIRA bombs became highly sophisticated, featuring anti-handling devices such as a mercury tilt switch or microswitches.
After the British developed jammers, PIRA technicians introduced devices that required a sequence of pulsed radio codes to arm and detonate them.
PIRA and .
The Provisional Irish Republican Army is also referred to as PIRA, the Provos, or by its supporters as the Army or the ' RA ; its constitution establishes it as Óglaigh na hÉireann (" The Irish Volunteers ") in the Irish language.
* Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) ( aka, PIRA, " the provos ," Óglaigh na hÉireann ) ( U. K., separatists )
It also succeeds in defending itself from an attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( PIRA ) against its home base.
* October 12 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army ( PIRA ) attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the British Cabinet in the Brighton hotel bombing.
In the aftermath of the Birmingham pub bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( PIRA ) on 21 November 1974, the government passed the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
Powell claimed that the only way to stop the PIRA was for Northern Ireland to be an integral part of the United Kingdom, treated the same as any other of its constituent parts.
They became the first victims of the re-organized Provisional Irish Republican Army ( PIRA ) campaign.
Since the height of the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( PIRA ) campaign, the entrance to Downing Street has been closed, preventing the general public from getting near Number 10.
In addition many Republican voters were angered by what they saw as Cosgrave's harsh line on the PIRA and the handling of the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings which resulted in the perpetrators walking scot-free.
Ihe Independent Monitoring Commission ( IMC ), in its latest report, dated April 2006, points out that it has no reason to disbelieve the PIRA or information to suspect that the group has not fully decommissioned.
Supporters of the PIRA split from Official Sinn Féin to form Provisional Sinn Féin.
This approach by the British army to fighting the PIRA in Northern Ireland led to the development and use of most of the modern weapons, equipment and techniques now used by EOD Operators throughout the rest of the world today.
He was a longtime senior member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army and served as the organisation's Quartermaster General, a role which gave him unique personal knowledge of the whereabouts of, and access to PIRA arms dumps.
McKevitt launched a dissident offshoot of the PIRA, called the Real IRA, using guns and weaponry he as the Quartermaster General of the PIRA had known the whereabouts of and had seized.
engaged and ongoing
As Carthage was under siege and engaged in a difficult civil war, they begrudgingly accepted the loss of these islands and the subsequent Roman conditions for ongoing peace, which also increased the war indemnity levied against Carthage after the first Punic War.
Nevertheless, the Enxet are still engaged in an ongoing conflict with the government and ranchers, who want to destroy what remains of the forest to open the land for massive settlement.
It began to take recognizable shape after 1996, as a joint result of the evolving nationalist thinking of the early 1990s and the ongoing debates on modernity, postmodernism, postcolonialism, and their political implications-debates that have engaged many Chinese intellectuals since early 1995.
His seductive abilities became legendary in some social circles in Paris, and he engaged in a series of ongoing affairs, maintaining relationships with a variety of beautiful and doting young women.
Throughout 2003, Graffin was engaged in an ongoing email discussion with Preston Jones, a historian at the Christian John Brown University in Arkansas and fan of Bad Religion.
The International Alliance of Professional Reporters and Transcribers ( IAPRT. org ) is a member-based not-for-profit consortium engaged in the ongoing development of all methods of court reporting and transcription, and guiding public and private court reporting professionals worldwide toward the common goal of producing a verbatim and verifiable record.
It featured a special task force featuring an array of characters, led by Matt Trakker, with transforming vehicles engaged in an ongoing battle against the criminal organization V. E. N. O. M.
During the 1978 season, Lee and Red Sox manager Don Zimmer engaged in an ongoing public feud over the handling of the pitching staff.
The Government of Canada has advised " Armed forces from both countries are engaged in this ongoing dispute.
Portugal was heavily engaged in its own Moroccan campaign and its ongoing maritime confrontations with the Ottomans in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean and had no forces to spare.
Since then, Dicks has been engaged in the ongoing " The Unexplained " series with twelve books so far.
In 1999, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that the union had engaged in " ongoing acts of intimidation, violence, destruction of property ", awarding the plaintiff $ 212, 500 in punitive damages.
The Chickamauga Cherokee engaged in ongoing raids against American settlers, often with British and Spanish military aid.
Other likely opponents would be nations engaged in ongoing military conflicts, or others in a state of heightened military alert, such as Israel.
Campbell's men reached Bristol in good order despite the ongoing skirmishes, and engaged in a destructive rampage.
He engaged in an ongoing mock " feud " with fellow comics creator Brian Bendis in the letters pages of their books.
By presenting systems in action via several interactive C2 demonstrations, ESC engaged in ongoing dialogue with its customers.
During the game, Kuntz invited his boyfriend into the press box and, according to NDSCS, engaged in conduct that was " ongoing and explicit in nature " and " drew complaints from numerous parents and players.
Data is a " human-oid " ( a positronic brain in an organic body ), and is engaged in an ongoing affair with Tasha Yar.
He was appointed resident in Rajputana in 1818, with which the residency at Delhi was subsequently combined, and during this period encountered and engaged in an ongoing personal feud with James Tod, which was based most likely on the power politics within the hierarchy of the East India Company.
Like many of the First Nations of Canada, Muskoday First Nation are engaged in ongoing discussions, agreements and lobby efforts with the federal Government of Canada ; Land ownership and entitlement are at the core in these efforts.
The barony of Moynihan was deemed to have become dormant on the death of his half-brother in 1991, thus Colin Moynihan spent the following five years engaged in proving his claim to the title and its ongoing status.
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