Why The New Level Of Threat?

[-Talbot-]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36267052

[agchristie]

Intelligence.

[-Talbot-]

Well thank you AG.

substantial ... means an attack is a strong possibility.
I had know idea things were regressing.

[agchristie]

You're welcome Talbot!

Difficult one really, an absence of Irish terrorism on the mainland probably belies an increase in activity picked up by our security services. Who knows the real picture, let's hope we are one step ahead as we have been in preventing numerous attacks generally of late.

[Baldric]

Bit more here

http://www.itv.com/news/2016-05-11/uk-threat-level-from-northern-ireland-terrorists-raised-to-substantial/

[mikey4444]

Ulster terrorism never really went away...we just thought it had.

[DTCwordfan]

The Irish Catholics on the rampage again.

[agchristie]

Mikey, we are referring to attacks on the mainland. Can you name a recent incident?

[naomi24]

DTC, hardly on the rampage.

[DTCwordfan]

Probably involves ISIL with them, creating Irish State of the Irish Sea, hence to be known as ISIS.

[retrocop]

Tony Blair told us he achieved it. It must of been true??? He even got a Canadian gentleman to decommission all their arms and explosives!! All of them??

[EDDIE51]

To take attention away from EU immigration and Muslim terrorists?
Seriously though I did not realize until seeing one of Sandy's posts yesterday that 'kneecapping' is still a daily threat in NI!

[DTCwordfan]

well there have been a fair number of nasty incidents recently over in Ulster, naomi.

[mikey4444]

agchristie....no I can't. But whenever the tension rises in Ulster, it seems to brim over onto the rest of us. We have no choice but to take what the Security forces say seriously.

[agchristie]

> We have no choice but to take what the Security forces say seriously.

Absolutely, but an increase in activity in Ulster is not necessarily reflected in the same risk to the mainland.

[mikey4444]

Well...that is not what the security forces are telling us.

[agchristie]

The threat in NI is 'severe', a higher grade than the increased risk on the mainland.

One is still more likelier than the other.

[vulcan42]

This, from the article, would suggest something is brewing.
\\ At Easter the New IRA, the group responsible for the murder of prison officer Adrian Ismay in March, warned that its members were "determined to take the war to the age-old enemy of our nation".//