Original sentence: In fact all three were unarmed and the bomb was still in nearby Spain.Operation Flavius was the name of an operation by a Special Air Service team in Gibraltar on 6 March, 1988.The SAS team was told (incorrectly) that the PIRA had already placed their bomb and were ready to detonate it.Their plan was to hide a bomb in a car so as to kill a large number of British soldiers and civilians.Three members of the Provisional IRA members had planned an attack during the changing of the guard at the governor’s residence
Edited sentence: In fact, all three were unarmed and the bomb was still in nearby Spain.Operation Flavius was the name of an operation by a Special Air Service team in Gibraltar on 6 March, 1988 against the Provisional IRA.The SAS team was told (incorrectly) that the IRA had already placed their bomb and were ready to detonate it.Their plan was to hide the bomb in a car so as to kill a large number of British soldiers.Three members of the IRA intended to detonate a bomb during the changing of the guard at the governor’s residence