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The Hunt for the Bomber

2004-09-14 · 37 min · Not rated

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Brighton bomber Patrick Magee talks exclusively to Peter Taylor about how and why he planted a bomb in the Grand Hotel, while intelligence experts and bomb specialists speak for the first time about how they foiled a follow-up campaign on an even more devastating scale.

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BBC
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Patrick MageeSelf
Peter TaylorPeter TaylorSelf - Interviewer

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