was the Brighton bomb placed during the militant tendency readers meating 3 weeks before it exploded?

Question

I am aware patrick maguire took responsability for this arttack I just never understood the lack of security at the time I was there!"

Answer 1

I doubt that it was placed three week prior to the incident. The security forces claimed to have repeatedly have searched the building, and there is no reason to dis-believe this. It is far more likely that, despite what has been said; to have been planted after the parties arrived(by a bogus member of staff) this would ensure a greater chance that it would not be discovered and a greater chance of the timer device being accurate.

Answer 2

The Brighton bomb had absolutely nothing to do with militant tendency whatsoever - it was the IRA.

Answer 3

The Brighton hotel bombing was the bombing by the Provisional IRA of the Grand Hotel in the English resort city of Brighton in the early morning of October 12, 1984.

The Irish republican organisation detonated two large bombs in the hotel where many politicians, including Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, were staying for the British Conservative Party conference.

Contents [hide]
1 The bombing
2 Casualties
3 IRA responsibiity
4 Reactions
5 Magee
6 References



[edit] The bombing
The bombs went off at 2.54 am. Thatcher was still awake at the time, said to be working on her conference speech. It shredded through her bathroom barely two minutes after she had left it; but she and her husband Denis escaped injury. Thatcher changed her clothes then was escorted by the security guards to Brighton police station. She and Denis were then taken to Lewes Police College, where they stayed for the rest of the night.

As she left the hotel she gave an impromptu interview to the BBC's John Cole. Alistair McAlpine persuaded Marks and Spencers to open early so those who had lost their clothes in the bombing could get new ones. Mrs Thatcher went from the conference to visit the injured at the Royal Sussex County Hospital.


[edit] Casualties
Whilst the bombs failed to kill Thatcher or any of her government ministers; they did, however, kill five people, including Conservative MP Sir Anthony Berry, and John Wakeham's first wife Roberta. Several others, including Margaret Tebbit — the wife of Norman Tebbit, who was then President of the Board of Trade — were left permanently disabled.


[edit] IRA responsibiity
The IRA claimed responsibility the next day, and said that they would try again. Their statement infamously included the words:

Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always.

[edit] Reactions
Thatcher began the next session of the conference at 9.30 am the following morning as scheduled, despite the number of dead and wounded still being unknown at that time. She omitted most of the planned attacks on the Labour Party from her speech and claimed the bombing was 'an attempt to cripple Her Majesty's democratically elected Government':

That is the scale of the outrage in which we have all shared, and the fact that we are gathered here now — shocked, but composed and determined — is a sign not only that this attack has failed, but that all attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. [1]

[edit] Magee
In September 1986, Patrick Magee, then aged 35, was found guilty of planting the bomb, exploding it, and of five counts of murder. Magee had stayed in the hotel under the false name of Roy Walsh three weeks prior to the conference and planted the bomb, with a long-delay timer, in his room, number 629. Sir Donald Maclean was staying in the room with his wife, Muriel, when the bomb exploded. She was killed in the explosion and Sir Donald seriously injured. The other victims killed by the blast were Eric Taylor and Jeanne Shattock. Thirty-four people were hospitalised but recovered from their injuries.

Magee received eight life sentences: seven for offences relating to the Brighton bombing, and the eighth for a separate bombing conspiracy. The judge recommended he serve a minimum term of 35 years. Later Home Secretary Michael Howard increased this minimum to "whole life". However, he was released from prison in 1999, having served only 14 years in prison (including the time before his sentencing), under the terms of the Good Friday agreement. A Downing Street spokesperson said that his release "was hard to stomach" and an appeal by then Home Secretary Jack Straw to prevent it was turned down by the Northern Ireland High Court.

Following his release Magee was reported to have said "I stand by what I did," inflaming the anger of survivors and the bereaved towards him. Whilst he admitted partial responsibility for planning the attack, he maintains that the fingerprint evidence found on a registration card recovered from the hotel was faked — "If that was my fingerprint I did not put it there," he said in a newspaper interview after his release.

Answer 4

No, I distinctly recall the Provos claimed they had planted it several months before the Conservative party gathered for their conference. Unfortunately I cannot find a source to back this up.

Answer 5

as the IRA said after the attack " we only have to be lucky once and maggie has to be lucky all the time"
But time is a changing . I / we welcome it