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Originally Posted by Makarov
It depends. Firstly, IRA bombs during the "Troubles" overwhelmingly targeted civilians. Secondly, those attacks did not take place in the context of a "hot" war. Lastly, some of those attacks took place during negotiated truces between the IRAand the U.K. So it depends.
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Most of the IRA's attacks were on British and Northern Ireland security forces, including off-duty soldiers and their families.
It's curious how sympathies and definitions of terrorism change with the politics of the times.