jaobrien.ie - UNIQUE MILITARY TRADECRAFT ANALYSIS - DUBLIN AND MONAGHAN BOMBS 1974

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This is a video specially designed to examine the bombing technology and the overall methodology employed by the bombers in 1974. The attacks took place in the wider political context of the abandonment of the Power Sharing Executive in Belfast and the subsequent failure by both Governments to pursue the killers and the organisers. The recorded information from two British Army Colonels, L/Col. George Styles outlines the practice of setting off bombs using captured IRA explosives (Styles) and both officers considered the ineptness of the UVF in Bombing Technology and Execution. Furthermore L/Col. Wylde states that no records were kept of captured IRA bombing material and large quantities were being recovered over al Brigade areas in the the North.

One looks at the typology of Loyalist bombings in the Republic and in Northern Ireland. It is clear that with the notable exception of the attacks of 1 December 1972 and 17 May 1974 that they were crude hit and run attacks lacking in expertise and execution. Secondly this same record demonstrates their incompetence in executing those attacks. Thirdly they did not have access to High Explosives in 1974. Lieutenant Colonel Nigel Wylde and other military experts agree on this fact.

Lieutenant Colonel Wylde explained;

Loyalist Strategy. The only discernible Loyalist strategy was that they were against anything that could threaten the link with Great Britain. As such they would use bombs indiscriminately as weapons of terror directed at soft Republican targets. These bombs would always be delivered without warning. A feature of the Loyalist bombings in 1974 was that as a result of the split in the Loyalist movement over the Sunningdale agreement there were a number of loyalist bombs directed at other Loyalist groups. Loyalist bombs were simple and unsophisticated and reflected their lack of technical expertise. Loyalists never issued a warning regarding their bombs.
Loyalist Planning.

Lieutenant Colonel Wylde said.

Re-crystallised ANFO obtained from confiscated stocks. In 1974 the Army were consistently recovering large quantities of re-crystallised ANFO each week. This came from finds, interceptions and from defused bombs. In the Belfast area I would estimate that throughout the summer of 1974 we recovered at least 1000lbs of ANFO every week.

The other Sections of 321 EOD Unit also recovered similar quantities. (321 Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Unit was the unit responsible for bomb disposal duties in Northern Ireland. In 1974 it comprised 3 Sections one each in Belfast (4 teams plus a reserve in Lisburn), Lurgan (2 teams plus a team in Bessbrook Mill and Londonderry (2 teams plus a teams at Magherafelt and Omagh).

The material recovered in this way that was not sent for scientific analysis (very small
quantities only) was destroyed on a regular basis. The most common method was to
flush ANFO into the drains where it would dissolve. if a large quantity of ANFO
together with commercial explosive had been discovered in the Belfast area it would
all be taken to a quarry outside the City and blown up. This task was undertaken at
least once a week. In Belfast we frequently received consignments from other parts of
the Province because the other Sections did experience difficulties in disposing of
their stocks due to lack of resources and time. The key issue was that quantity and
type of explosive involved was not recorded. No account ledgers were maintained and
no stock takes were ever undertaken.

For anybody who had access to the stocks, it would have been relatively easy to accumulate a large quantity of explosive in a very short time. It is impossible for me to say that the entire quantity of explosive collected in Belfast was properly destroyed. I believe it was, but I had no way of confirming this at the time. It is difficult from the evidence available to be absolutely certain, but in my view the presence of what appears to be ‘clumps’ of ANFO at the site of all three Dublin bombs would indicate the use of Re-Crystallised ANFO. This in turn would suggest that the source was confiscated stocks (IRA).