[d0]

Actually as a resident of the UK, it was a "meh" thing. The word terrorist was still an extreme word used in rare circumstances even back in the height of the bombings.

And no one really actually cared about it that much.

Now it's a label for every crime. "The defendant is a terrorist unit proven otherwise".

[vidarh]

I loved to London in 2000. I just realised today that there were at least 5 bombings and one rocket propelled grenade fired at Mi6 headquarters in the two first years I lived here - I only remember two (the car bomb outside BBC offices and the Ealing bomb where they'd phoned in a misleading warning naming a street that doesn't exist).

The rest apparently got so little media attention that I either didn't notice them or have forgotten all about it.

Of course that was well past the peak of the bombings, but it seems like a good illustration of how much of a "meh" thing it actually was.

[hahainternet]

I'm from Manchester, so you know.

[gadders]

To be fair, though, 9/11 was on a whole different order of magnitude to what the IRA attempted, and the IRA were never suicide bombers which made them easier to deter.