U.K. Bombing Campaign Forecast
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LONDON – Agents for the MI5 Security Service warn hard-line Irish Republicans are on the verge of launching a new terror campaign on Britain's mainland, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
"In past weeks a number of suspects have entered England from France and Holland on budget airline flights and cross-Channel ferries," Jonathan Evans, the MI5 director-general, warned prime minister Gordon Brown last weekend.
Evans, a veteran of the war in Northern Ireland, has also reminded officers in Ulster that the adage "one bomb in London is worth 10 in Ulster" remains as true today as it did within the IRA a decade ago.
The organization is now thought to have brought its most experienced bomb- makers out of retirement following the recent upstart of violence in the province.
The IRA has broken into two fanatical splinter groups – the Real IRA and the Continuity IRA. Last month, members of the Real IRA claimed responsibility for the murder of two British soldiers at Massereene Barracks in Antrim, a short distance from MI5's own headquarters in Ulster.
Evans, 50, also has told Home Secretary Jacqui Smith that, at the moment, both terrorist groups now have plans to attack the mainland U.K.
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At Easter, the Real IRA – identified by MI5 as the larger and better equipped of the two groups – publicly said it intends to attack not only Britain but to assassinate the Sinn Fein's deputy minister in Northern Ireland, Martin McGuinness, who had accused the group of "treachery" for the murder of the two soldiers.
McGuinness last weekend refused to increase the number of bodyguards who surround him in his role he describes as "Ulster's peacemaker."
In another move which indicates the mounting threat of violence, the Continuity IRA has warned it will execute young Catholic recruits to the Northern Ireland police service, PSNI, calling them "traitors."
But it is the threat to the mainland that is of prime concern to MI5.
"It would wreck the peace process if just one bomb went off in London or any other British city," said an intelligence source.