Ms May said the strategy would be targeted against "those forms of terrorism which pose the greatest risk to our national security, currently al-Qaeda and those they inspire".
How many of these recent IRA bombings have posed a risk to national security, anyways?
Were they all high profile attacks meant to cause mass casualties? 99 sounds like a lot of those.
I'm guessing not even one actual attack - or plotted attack - had that aim.
Surely plots where authorities are alerted ahead of time can't be compared to attempts to blow up civilian airliners over English cities.
I figure this wouldn't need an explanation for most people.