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2 dead in shooting at Northern Irish army base
reuters UK ^ | Mar 7, 2009 | n/a
Posted on March 7, 2009 4:51:26 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
Two military personnel were killed and four people seriously wounded in a shooting at a British army base in Northern Ireland, police said Saturday.
“The two fatalities as I understand it are military personnel,” a police spokeswoman said,
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New IRA terror group forms
IrishCentral.com ^ | 12/13/2009 | Patrick Roberts
Posted on December 13, 2009 2:46:48 PM PST by noozguy1
A new dissent Republican group may be forming in Northern Ireland. The organization would include dissidents that have defected from the Continuity IRA and the Real IRA.
The group will not have a name, with the deliberate aim of confusing members of the security forces.
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IRA plotting to kill Princes William, Harry: Report
The Times of India ^ | 16 March, 2009 | PTI
Posted on March 15, 2009 3:18:58 PM PDT by MyTwoCopperCoins
LONDON: The security cover for Britain’s Princes William and Harry has been stepped up over fears that IRA terrorists are plotting to assassinate the royals, a news report said on Sunday.
Scotland Yard fears the Princes, who are officers in the British Army, are prize targets for Irish Republican Army (IRA). The number of close protection officers guarding the two royals on each shift has been increased, Britain’s Sunday Express reported today.
The threat level has been upgraded following the murders of two soldiers and a police officer in Northern Ireland.
“The Princes are regarded as legitimate targets by these madmen. The number of royalty protection officers has been increased from two to three and they are being reinforced by a back-up team of two,” a source within the security services was quoted as saying by the Express.
“No risks are being taken. William and Harry like to get about in London when they are not on duty and that makes them vulnerable,” the source said.
Princes’ bodyguards and the security agencies are concerned that even with heightened threat William, 26, and Harry, 24, want to live as normal as possible.
The tightening of royal security comes as police hunting the gunmen who killed two British soldiers at Massereene barracks in Antrim last Saturday arrested three men yesterday, the report said.
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Republican Bomb Plot Feared In N Ireland (Breaking News)
Sky News ^ | 12 March 2009
Posted on March 12, 2009 3:16:17 AM PDT by Briton
Security sources in Northern Ireland fear the next attack by Republican dissidents is likely to involve a bomb, Sky News has confirmed. It follows reports that the Real IRA has smuggled a large device into the province from the South. Sky’s Home Affairs correspondent Mark White says the focus of investigations is now on a 300lb car bomb left at Castelwellen at the end of January. That bomb was diffused after a warning call was received. It caused a security alert outside the town for five days. Security sources suggest that whoever put the “sophisticated” device together was an experienced bomb-maker who needs to be found as quickly as possible.
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