On 3 August 2001 , the Real IRA , a dissident Irish republican organisation and splinter of the Provisional IRA , detonated Attack a car bomb Terrorism containing 100 lb ( 45 kg ) of homemade plastic explosives Attack in Ealing Broadway , West London , England .

The capture Conquering of the city ( and two other Byzantine splinter territories soon thereafter ) marked Recording the end Process_end of the Roman Empire , a state which dated to 27 BC , which had lasted for nearly 1,500 years .

The remnants of the GIA proper were hunted Killing down over the next two years , and had practically disappeared Departing by 2002 , with the exception of a splinter group called Name_conferral the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat ( GSPC ) , which announced Expressing_publicly its support Supporting for Al-Qaeda in October 2003 and continued fighting Hostile_encounter an insurgency that would eventually spread Dispersal to other countries in the region .

it was carried out Military_operation by a group calling themselves the real irish republican army , a provisional irish republican army ( ira ) splinter group who opposed Agree_or_refuse_to_act the ira 's ceasefire and the good friday agreement .

Afterwards , the MNLA began Process_start fighting Hostile_encounter against Ansar Dine and other Islamist groups , including Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa ( MOJWA/MUJAO ) , a splinter group of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb .