[Guthur]

There are many strategies that don't necessarily involve large human collateral damage but are still politically motivated.

The Provisonsal IRA in N. Ireland during the Troubles was often times either targeting security forces, collaborators or commerical activity. Ostensibly the goal was to make the UKs continued involvement in N. Ireland untenable from an economic and political stand point. The IRA was quite aware that too many indiscriminate killing of N.Ireland civilians would be detrimental to their cause.

[PIKAL]

But I don’t even need to look it up to know that they made absolutely sure to get credit for every single bombing. Why is that missing here?

[Guthur]

Most certainly, well most of the time anyway unless it was particularly botched.

I'm actually not meaning to claim that this particular incident is political at all.