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- A. He did not plant the bomb. (en)
- A. Yes, he was. (en)
- Q. But how could you possibly place a bomb in a disco attended by a large number of civilians without expecting civilians to be killed? (en)
- Q. Was he personally involved in the Ballykelly bombing? (en)
- Q. But the issue was that it was absolutely inevitable that planting the bomb in those circumstances meant that there would be civilian casualties and therefore does not a conflict exist with protestations of concern for civilians? (en)
- A. We did give warnings again and again about this and the people that were there must have known what the consequences of it were likely to be. (en)
- A. We didn't think we would kill civilians. The bomb was placed in a manner to avoid civilian casualties. (en)
- A. The owner of that pub was warned six times about entertaining members of the security forces there. He knew full well and the girls that attended the disco there knew full well that the warnings had been given and that the place was going to be bombed at some stage or another. (en)
- Q. Did he plan it or was he in any way involved in it? (en)
- They seemed to have no fear while most us were scared stiff of being shot dead, wounded or captured by the Brits. Something I can't really put my finger on bound them together. Hughes and McGlinchey were really close even though McGlinchey seemed a lot older. Maybe it was because he was in command. I got the impression he wanted to outdo each other. They gained this reputation of being Robin Hood types and they loved it. I'm not saying they weren't always committed to the cause—they were—but you always had the feeling that they lived and breathed action. Francie Hughes just adored guns and he knew how to use them. McGlinchey was a tough guy and nobody gave him lip. What he said, went—it was as simple as that. He wanted to terrorise the security forces the way they terrorised our people. Like, we didn't have any great political discussions about what we were doing. (en)
- Q. How could such an operation possibly be justified in view of the inevitability of civilian casualties? (en)
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