Qualla: Proxy Bomb https://qualla.com/proxy-bomb en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/c/proxy-bomb-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Proxy Bomb https://qualla.com/proxy-bomb Proxy Bomb: Introduction https://qualla.com/proxy-bomb/ Photo credit Nzeemin, CC BY-SA 3.0. Imagine being woken at gunpoint in your own home, your wife and children held in another room while strangers wire a bomb to the seat of your car. You are told what to drive. You are told where to drive it. If you stop, or veer, or try to warn anyone, your family dies. This is what the IRA called a proxy bomb. The men who built it called it a tactic. The men who drove it called it the worst night of their lives. Coined in the borderlands of County Donegal and Northern Ireland during the Troubles, the proxy bomb belonged to a peculiar geography of fear, where the line between a soldier and a civilian, between coercion and consent, was deliberately erased.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/c/proxy-bomb-wp/gcfc-proxy-bomb-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Proxy Bomb: A Tactic Born of Pressure https://qualla.com/proxy-bomb/ Photo credit Nzeemin, CC BY-SA 3.0. By 1973, the IRA had a problem. British searches and surveillance were tightening across Northern Ireland, and planting a bomb at a military target without being caught had become nearly impossible. In March of that year, the organisation introduced a solution that solved the ope...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/c/proxy-bomb-wp/gcfc-proxy-bomb-a-tactic-born-of-pressure.mp3 0:06 2 full Proxy Bomb: October 1990 https://qualla.com/proxy-bomb/ Photo credit Nzeemin, CC BY-SA 3.0. On 24 October 1990, the IRA launched three coordinated proxy attacks. In County Donegal, on the southern side of the border, men deemed by the organisation to be collaborators were taken from their homes while their families were held at gunpoint. In Newry, the IRA's South Down B...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/c/proxy-bomb-wp/gcfc-proxy-bomb-october-1990.mp3 0:06 3 full Proxy Bomb: The Hand of the Coerced https://qualla.com/proxy-bomb/ Photo credit Nzeemin, CC BY-SA 3.0. The proxy bomb has often been compared to a suicide bomb, but the comparison falls apart the moment you sit with it. A suicide bomber chooses, however terribly. A proxy driver chooses nothing. The man behind the wheel was not a soldier and not a volunteer. He was a husband, a fat...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/c/proxy-bomb-wp/gcfc-proxy-bomb-the-hand-of-the-coerced.mp3 0:06 4 full Proxy Bomb: The Long Tail https://qualla.com/proxy-bomb/ Photo credit Nzeemin, CC BY-SA 3.0. After October 1990, the IRA tried to walk it back. Several more proxy bombings were planned and then quietly cancelled. The final IRA use of the tactic came on 24 April 1993, when two London taxi drivers were forced to drive bombs toward Downing Street and New Scotland Yard. Both...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/c/proxy-bomb-wp/gcfc-proxy-bomb-the-long-tail.mp3 0:06 5 full Proxy Bomb: Where the Border Runs https://qualla.com/proxy-bomb/ Photo credit Nzeemin, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Donegal countryside south of Derry, where many of these operations originated or ended, is among the most peaceful-looking landscape in Europe. Hedgerows, small fields, a few houses set back from the road. The Foyle estuary opens north toward the Atlantic. It is easy to forge...

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