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The Harrods bombing usually refers to the car bomb that exploded outside Harrods department store in central London on Saturday 17 December 1983. Members of the Provisional IRA planted the time bomb and sent a warning 37 minutes before it exploded, but the area was not evacuated. The blast killed three police officers and three civilians, injured 90 people, and caused much damage. The IRA Army Council claimed it had not authorised the attack and expressed regret for the civilian casualties. The IRA had been bombing commercial targets in England since the early 1970s, as part of its "economic war". The goal was to damage the economy and cause disruption, which would put pressure on the British government to withdraw from Northern Ireland.〔O'Day, Alan. ''Political Violence in Northern Ireland''. Greenwood Publishing, 1997. p.20〕 Harrods was the target of a much smaller IRA bomb almost ten years later, in January 1993, which injured four people. ==1983 bombing== Following the first Dublin bombings the Provisional IRA decided to take its campaign to Britain.〔Llywelyn, Morgan "1999"〕 From 1973 the Provisional IRA had carried out waves of bombing attacks in London and elsewhere in England, as part of its campaign. Harrods—a large, upmarket department store in the affluent Knightsbridge district, near Buckingham Palace—had been targeted before by the IRA. On 10 December 1983, the IRA carried out its first attack in London for some time when a bomb exploded at the Royal Artillery Barracks, injuring three British soldiers.〔("4 Soldiers Wounded By Bombing in London" ). ''The New York Times'', 11 December 1983.〕 One week later, on the afternoon of 17 December, IRA members parked a car bomb near the side entrance of Harrods, on Hans Crescent. The bomb contained 25 to of explosives and was set to be detonated by a timer.〔("Bomb unauthorised says IRA" ). The Guardian, 19 December 1983.〕〔Chalk, Peter. ''Encyclopedia of Terrorism''. ABC-CLIO, 2013. pp.285-287〕 It was left in a 1972 blue Austin 1300 GT four-door saloon car with a black vinyl roof, registration plate KFP 252K.〔 At 12:44 a man using an IRA codeword phoned the central London branch of the Samaritans charity.〔〔 The caller said there was a car bomb outside Harrods and another bomb inside Harrods, and gave the car's registration plate.〔〔 However, according to police, he did not give any other description of the car.〔 The bomb exploded at about 13:21, as four police officers in a car, an officer on foot and a police dog-handler neared the suspect vehicle.〔〔 Six people were killed (three officers and three bystanders) and 90 others were injured, including 14 police officers.〔McKittrick, David. ''Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles''. Mainstream, 2001. pp.970-971〕 The blast damaged 24 cars〔 and all five floors on the side of Harrods, sending a shower of glass down on the street.〔 The police car absorbed much of the blast and this likely prevented further casualties.〔 The bystanders killed were Philip Geddes (24), a journalist who had heard about the alert and went to the scene;〔 Jasmine Cochrane-Patrick (25); and Kenneth Salvesen (28), a US citizen.〔〔(Northern Ireland: Thatcher letter to Reagan (outrage at Harrods IRA bomb) ) Margaret Thatcher Foundation website〕 The Metropolitan Police officers killed were Sergeant Noel Lane (28); Constable Jane Arbuthnot (22); and Inspector Stephen Dodd (34), who died of his injuries on 24 December.〔(Malcolm Sutton's Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland ). Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN).〕 Constable Jon Gordon survived, but lost both legs and part of a hand in the blast.〔 At the time of the explosion, a second warning call was made by the IRA. The caller said that a bomb had been left in the C&A department store at the east end of Oxford Street. Police cleared the area and cordoned it off but this claim was found to be false.〔(''On this Day - 1983: Harrods bomb blast kills six'' ). BBC News.〕 In the aftermath of the attack, hundreds of extra police and mobile bomb squads were drafted into London.〔 Aleck Craddock, chairman of Harrods, reported that £1 million in turnover had been lost as a result of the bombing.〔''The Glasgow Herald'', 19 December 1983, p.1〕 Despite the damage, Harrods re-opened three days later, proclaiming it would not be "defeated by acts of terrorism".〔 Denis Thatcher, the husband of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, visited the store and told reporters "no damned Irishman is going to stop me going there". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harrods bombings」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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