3 August 2001 Ealing bombing

Infobox terrorist attack
title=3 August 2001 Ealing bombing

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caption=The damage caused by the bombing
location=Ealing, London, United Kingdom
target=Ealing Broadway
date=3 August 2001
time-begin=12:02am
time-end=
timezone=UTC+1
type=Car bomb
fatalities=0
injuries=7
perps=Real IRA

On 3 August 2001 the Real IRA detonated a car bomb containing 45kg of explosives in Ealing Broadway, West London, England injuring seven people. Debris caused by the bomb spread more than 200m (219 yards). [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1471284.stm]

Apart from the damage caused directly by the explosion, further extensive damage to property in the adjacent Ealing Broadway shopping centre was caused by flooding arising from the water main under the car bomb being ruptured.

In November 2001, three men, Noel Maguire, Robert Hulme and his brother Aiden Hulme, were arrested in connection with three bomb attacks in the UK.
* The first being outside the BBC on 4 March, 2001 (See 4 March 2001 BBC bombing)
* The second in Ealing Broadway on 3 August, 2001 and
* The third in Birmingham on 3 November, 2001. They were all later convicted at the Old Bailey on 8 April, 2003. Robert and Aiden Hulme were each jailed for twenty years. Noel Maguire, who the judge said played "a major part in the bombing conspiracy", was sentenced to twenty two years.

Two other men, James McCormack, of County Louth, and John Hannan, of Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh, had already admitted the charge at an earlier hearing. James McCormack, who played the most serious part of the five, the judge said, was jailed for twenty two years. John Hannan, who was seventeen at the time of the incidents, was given sixteen years detention.

ee also

*List of terrorist incidents (Worldwide)
*List of terrorist incidents in the United Kingdom
*List of London bombings

External links

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1471284.stm Report on the incident by the BBC]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/3/newsid_2527000/2527065.stm A second report on the incident by the BBC]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2930957.stm Report on the Real IRA bombers that caused the Ealing bombing being jailed by the BBC]
* [http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=87602003 Report from the Scotsman on the real IRA bombers being convicted]