Terror watchdog: dissident Irish Republicans could mount first attacks in years on UK mainland
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}LONDON (AP) — Britain's terrorism laws watchdog says dissident Irish Republican paramilitaries could mount attacks on the U.K. mainland for the first time in about a decade.
Alex Carlile, the country's independent reviewer of anti-terrorism laws, warned in an annual report of the threat following a surge in dissident Republican violence.
He said no one can "exclude the possibility of dissident paramilitaries mounting terrorist attacks in Great Britain."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Britain's domestic spy agency MI5 warned recently that it has more "threat to life" cases in Northern Ireland, due to a surge in paramilitary violence, than anywhere else in the U.K.
The last dissident Irish Republican Army attack was in 2001, when a car bomb in Birmingham, central England, failed to detonate.