Ten years after the IRA bomb that tore through the city centre of Manchester, England, Police concede there is little hope of finding the terrorists who planted the bomb. Chilling and previously unreleased video footage shows the bomb actually exploding

I’ve posted about the IRA bombs before, so I thought some of you might be interested in seeing this video showing the reality of terrorist bombs exploding on mainland Britain as they have done since the 70’s. The BBC report marks ten years since the Manchester bomb exploded, the biggest IRA bomb to explode in the north of England, just 33 miles from where I live.

The video, shot from a helicopter, shows the truck packed with explosives, exploding. Slowed down you can actually see the building to the right buckle and sway from the force of the blast such was its ferocious intensity.

Much bigger bombs have exploded in London, and in the mid 90’s the IRA started phoning in the bomb warnings but telling Police that the bomb was at a location in the chosen town where it was in fact was in a different location. The reason for this was because the Police would evacuate people away from the believed blast area to another part of the town. Score would gather to wait and see if it was one of the many hoaxes, then the IRA would detonate the bomb in those areas, where the number of people gathered would therefore be far greater than usual.

As yet the city where I live, Liverpool, hasn’t suffered a terrorist attack. I hope it doesn’t, but with an underground rail system and two long road tunnels going under the river Mersey, the possibility of Liverpool being a target can’t be far from the minds of authorities here.