From: keithwillshaw@gmail.com   
      
   On 20/11/2022 20:38, Douglas Eagleson wrote:   
   > I once posted on Thatcher's reaction to the IRA bomb attempt on Gibraltar   
   back in the 80s. I said the Parliament approved their throats being cut.   
   > This was incorrect, they were simply shot multiple times while on the ground.   
   > My only excuse is an incorrect reading of some words of Thatcher.   
   >   
   > In that context maybe the issue was the summary killing of the suspects.   
   > I am left  with a sole excuse.  The Parliament maybe made an analogy   
   concerning the means of the judgment. Even if the execution was by throat   
   cutting, it would be justified.   
   >   
   > In this this test of my memory I reference a Washington Post article from   
   like 35 years ago.  Concerning South Korea's nuclear weapon program.   
   > A paraphrase. "What would you do if you were South Korea?"   
      
   You were as usual totally wrong in every possible way. The terrorists   
   were suspected of having planted a car bomb, when challenged they ran.   
   The security forces shot them as they suspected they would use a remote   
   detonator to blow up the car they had left in a major tourist location.   
   The police had handed control to the military as is the normal procedure   
   in such circumstances. Parliment was not involved, except that authority   
   was delegated by the Prime Minister and Ministry of Defence.   
      
   As it happened this was a dummy run, the actual car bomb was found   
   parked up in Spain. The UK at this stage had plenty of history of   
   dealing with IRA car bombers, I was slightly injuted in the Baltic   
   Exchange bombing.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Exchange_bombing   
      
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