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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.

I'm from Manchester, so you know.

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.