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Date Posted: 07:43:03 11/15/08 Sat GMT
Author: Lynn
Subject: NI militiant threats at Four-Year High, (Bloomberg News, NY)


Northern Ireland Militant Threats at Four-Year High, Panel Says

By Colm Heatley

Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Threats from Irish republican groups opposed to Northern Ireland's peace process have increased to a four-year high, a panel set up to monitor paramilitary organizations said.

Dissident groups such as the Continuity Irish Republican Army are focusing on trying to kill police officers in the U.K. province and have been ``especially active'' in the six months from March through August, the Independent Monitoring Commission said today in a report on its Web site.

The increase in militant activity, which includes weapons and explosives training and orchestrated riots, may be linked to a political stalemate in Northern Ireland's power-sharing executive that ``dissidents think they are able to exploit,'' the IMC said.

The executive, reconvened in May 2007, hasn't met since June because the pro-British Democratic Unionist Party and the republican Sinn Fein, the two biggest parties, can't agree on a timetable for the transfer of policing powers to the provincial assembly in Belfast from the U.K. Parliament in London. Sinn Fein says it will continue to use its veto to block executive meetings until there is a schedule for the transfer.

The Continuity Irish Republican Army formed in 1986 when its members broke away from the Irish Republican Army. The IRA and its political allies in Sinn Fein support the peace process. The IRA announced in September that its Army Council was no longer functional. The DUP insists the Army Council disband before the transfer of policing powers to the province.

To contact the reporter on this story: Colm Heatley in Belfast at cheatley@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: November 10, 2008 10:28 EST

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