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The Beast 111 said:
Clubber said:
I think COD 4 had a level which is based on it, as you finish near a Ferris wheel like it. Geeky fact.

Good picture.
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yeah every inch was used for cod
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The towns name is Pripyat. It is still Highly iradiated to this day.

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Corporal Derek Wood receiving the last rites after being beaten and shot after him and his British Army colleague drove into an IRA funeral by mistake and were pulled from their car and executed.

For some odd reason that incident and the image of the men being pulled from their car by the baying mob is one of my most vivid memories from childhood. For those who aren't familiar with the story, I've copied and pasted the following from elsewhere. From what I've read previously, it seems quite accurate but I stand corrected if not.

"History behind it

At Gibralter Daniel McCann, Sean Savage and Mairead Farrell were shot dead by the SAS on the 6th March 1988. They were members of an active service unit of the IRA, but had been unarmed at the time of the killing.

At their funeral on 16th March 1988 in Milltown cemetery, Falls Road, Belfast, Michael Stone, armed with two handguns and hand grenades attacked the crowd as the coffins were being lowered into the ground.Michael Stone killed three people that day, and injured over 60.

IRA Volunteer Caoimhín Mac Brádaigh was one of the three killed at Milltown as he tried to disarm Stone.

At his funeral, two british army corporals, Derek Wood and David Howes, drove into the cortege. David Howes and Derek Wood were driving in a silver Volkswagen Passat car wearing civilian clothes. The O'Bradaigh funeral was making its way along the Andersonstown Road towards Milltown Cemetery when the car containing the two corporals appeared. The car headed straight towards the front of the funeral, which was headed by a number of black taxis. It drove past a Sinn Féin steward who signalled it to turn. Mourners at the funeral said they believed they were under attack from loyalists. The car then mounted a pavement, scattering mourners and turning into a small side road. On finding that this road was blocked, it then reversed at speed, ending up within the funeral cortège. When the driver attempted to extricate the car from the cortège his exit route was blocked by a black taxi.When the car was surrounded and the windows smashed, those surrounding attempted to drag the soldiers out. One of the corporals produced a weapon, which off-duty members of the security forces were permitted to carry at the time. Corporal Wood climbed part of the way out of a window, firing a shot in the air which briefly scattered the crowd. Television pictures showed the crowd surging back, with some of them attacking the vehicle with a wheel-brace and a stepladder snatched from a photographer. The corporals were eventually pulled from the car and punched and kicked to the ground.
Journalist Mary Holland recalled seeing one of the men being dragged past a group of journalists: "He didn't cry out, just looked at us with terrified eyes, as though we were all enemies in a foreign country who wouldn't have understood what language he was speaking if he called out for help."They were dragged to the nearby Casement Park sports ground. Here they were again beaten and stripped to their underpants and socks by a small group of men. According to two British news sources, the men were tortured. A search revealed that the men were British Army soldiers. The corporals were further beaten and thrown over a high wall to be put into a waiting black taxi. It was driven off at speed, while camera crews captured one of its passengers waving a fist in the air
Shortly after, the IRA released a statement at the time which concluded: "Despite media reports, we are satisfied that at no time did our Volunteers physically attack the soldiers. Once we confirmed who they were, they were immediately executed. But we understand why a section of the mourners attacked them and given what happened in Milltown Cemetery on Wednesday, these people acted with exactly the same motive as those who were commended for pursuing loyalist paramilitary Michael Stone".
The two men were driven less than 200 yards to waste ground near Penny Lane, just off the main Andersonstown Road. There they were shot several times. Corporal Wood was shot six times, twice in the head and four times in the chest. He was also stabbed four times in the back of the neck and had multiple injuries to other parts of his body.

Redemptoristpriest Father Alec Reid, who later played a significant part in the peace process leading to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, arrived on the scene. One of the most enduring pictures of The Troubles shows him kneeling beside the almost naked body of Derek Wood, his face distraught as he administered the last rites."
 
The bombing of a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen which killed 11 innocent people and injured 63.

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