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    The Balcombe Street siege was an incident involving members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and London's Metropolitan Police lasting from...
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  • Balcombe Street Gang was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) active service unit (ASU) (also known as the Balcombe Street Four or the Balcombe Street...
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  • restaurant. Imbert was the chief negotiator over the six days of the Balcombe Street Siege, and when the situation ended peacefully with no lives lost and...
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    the difference in outcomes between the Iranian Embassy siege and the 1975 Balcombe Street siege, in which the police negotiated the surrender of four Provisional...
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    inconsistencies between an account Blair gave of his involvement in the Balcombe Street Siege on the night of 6 December 1975, and the recollections of others...
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  • for his role in the Balcombe Street Siege in London in December 1975. Doherty is known for his role in the Balcombe Street Siege of December 1975, at...
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    Crouch Hill (category Streets in the London Borough of Haringey)
    by IRA members who were subsequently arrested at the end of the Balcombe Street Siege. Bishop, Patrick & Mallie, Eamonn (1987). The Provisional IRA. Corgi...
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  • He was involved in the successful negotiations to end the 1975 Balcombe Street siege and afterwards served with the Metropolitan Police's fraud squad...
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  • being admitted. Duggan and Doherty were apprehended following the Balcombe Street siege and charged with murdering McWhirter in addition to nine other victims...
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    The threat of such an action ended the 1975 Balcombe Street siege, but the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege ended in a military assault and the deaths of...
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    England in 1974 and 1975 by Provisional IRA active service unit the Balcombe Street Gang. The British Government reinstated the ban against the UVF in...
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  • themselves for six days in a flat on Balcombe Street before they surrendered, an incident known as the Balcombe Street Siege. They were sentenced to thirty...
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    of the Active Service Unit apprehended in December 1975 at the Balcombe Street Siege. Two of the Guildford Four were wrongfully charged in December 1974...
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  • three others were labelled the "Balcombe Street Gang" by news media after a five-day siege in the eponymous London Street. He and his co-accused were gaoled...
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    the M62 coach bombing and several people were killed by the IRA's Balcombe Street Gang. One of the Old Bailey bombers Marian Price explained the IRA's...
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  • "Balcombe Street gang's reign of terror". BBC News. 9 April 1999. Retrieved 14 October 2012. "BBC ON THIS DAY | 12 | 1975: Balcombe Street siege ends"...
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  • an IRA unit based in London were arrested following the six-day Balcombe Street Siege. The IRA unit had been active in England since late 1974 carrying...
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    Marylebone (redirect from Queen Anne Street)
    Town Hall was completed in 1920. Marylebone was the scene of the Balcombe Street siege in 1975, when Provisional Irish Republican Army terrorists held...
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  • unit who became known as the Balcombe Street Gang – whom police arrested in December 1975 after the Balcombe Street siege leading to their trial and conviction...
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    The Downing Street mortar attack was carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 7 February 1991. The IRA launched three homemade mortar...
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    was the work of the Balcombe Street Gang who also carried out high-profile bombings in Knightsbridge, Piccadilly, Oxford Street, Woolwich, and many other...
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  • Balcombe Street : the IRA Reign of Terror in London. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis. ISBN 978-1-317-85607-8. OCLC 869091705. 1975: Balcombe Street siege...
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    16 months, on average. The CRW's first deployment was during the Balcombe Street siege. The Metropolitan Police had trapped a PIRA unit; it surrendered...
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    London's Downing Street by British prime minister John Major and the Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds. They delivered the Downing Street Declaration which...
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  • Balcombe may refer to: Balcombe, West Sussex, England Balcombe railway station Balcombe tunnel Balcombe Street Siege, IRA incident in London David Balcombe...
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  • Miami Showband killings Bayardo Bar attack Tullyvallen massacre Balcombe Street siege 1976 Reavey and O'Dowd killings Kingsmill massacre 1978 La Mon restaurant...
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