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It’s Not a Civil War, It’s The Troubles

The growing spectre of political violence in America has another recent precedent.

Conflict in progress in the Bogside area of Londonderry, Northern Ireland in February 1972, as youths attacked a British armored car during patrol duty. Youths hurled nail bombs and gelignite at British forces who retaliated with hails of rubber bullets and C.S. gas grenades. (AP Photo)
Conflict in progress in the Bogside area of Londonderry, Northern Ireland in February 1972, as youths attacked a British armored car during patrol duty. Youths hurled nail bombs and gelignite at British forces who retaliated with hails of rubber bullets and C.S. gas grenades. (AP Photo)
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