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Foreword
Acts of terrorism, by their very nature, are intended to appear random
and unpredictable designed to cause maximum psychological impact.
In this well researched and well written book, psychologist Dr. Steven
Moysey traces the destructive and apparently random path taken by one
of the most ruthless and murderous gangs of IRA terrorists ever to oper-
ate with such vicious consistency on the mainland of Great Britain. He
covers the bombing, shooting and kidnapping offences carried out by
this small group of determined killers and outlines in authentic (and
dare I say exciting detail, as he triggers my own memory) the events
leading up to their eventual capture when they were caught in a trap
carefully placed and sprung by the London Metropolitan Police on 6th
December 1975. Moysey clearly outlines the randomness and unpre-
dictability which was the hallmark of this particular Active Service Unit
and which was epitomised by: bombs left in shop doorways on one day;
a doorstep shooting and killing the next; the murder of a child cancer
physician, by placing a booby trapped bomb under the wheels of his
neighbour's car; and opening fire from an automatic weapon on crowd-
ed restaurants and hotels while speeding past in a stolen car. In one eve-
ning alone in early 1975 no less than seven timed bombs were placed in
shop doorways and under fuel storage dumps in and around London.
But although this almost daily switch of methods and likely targets
helped them evade early identification and capture, their continued suc-
cess (which included the death of one of our top explosives experts), the
very randomness itself contained a pattern which allowed the Metropol-
itan Police Anti-terrorist Squad to set a sophisticated trap into which, on
the cold and damp evening of 6th December 1975, the most murderous
IRA gang which had ever operated on the British mainland inadver-
tently entered as they attempted to carry out yet another deadly shooting
[Haworth co-indexing entry note]: Foreword. Imbert, Lord Peter. Co-published simultaneously in
Journal of Police Crisis Negotiations (The Haworth Press, Inc.) Vol. 8, No. 1, 2008, pp. xxi-xxii; and: The
Road to Balcombe Street: The IRA Reign of Terror in London (Steven P. Moysey) The Haworth Press, Inc., 2008,
pp. xiii-xiv. Single or multiple copies of this article are available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery
Service [1-800-HAWORTH, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (EST). E-mail address: docdelivery @haworthpress.com].
Available online at http://jpcn.haworthpress.com
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