THE EVOLUTION OF TERROR

Over the past 20 years, terrorism has changed beyond recognition. FHM speaks to six victims of six different attacks, as well as Raffaello Pantucci, director of international security studies at the Royal United Services Institute, to try to make sense of the senseless

Words: Andrew Lowry, Andy Jones and Matt Blake

OMAGH Northern Ireland When the Real IRA detonated a car bomb on a busy shopping street in Omagh, Michael Gallagher lost his 21-year-old son Aiden When: 15 August 1998 Death toll: 29 (and two unborn babies) Number of attackers: Unknown Method: Car bomb My family had already been touched by the Troubles. My house was destroyed in 1972 and my younger brother was assassinated by the IRA in 1984 for being in the Ulster Defence Regiment. But the Omagh bombing was so shocking because it came at a time of greater optimism in Northern Ireland, with the Good Friday Agreement recently signed and a feeling in the air that the future was going to be different. It was a Saturday in August. I had been working in the car repair shop I ran with my son Aiden. I…

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FHM UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2016

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