Real IRA threaten to take campaign to Britain

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[SIZE=4]Real IRA threaten to take campaign to Britain[/SIZE]
Sun Apr 12, 2009 2:25am BST

DUBLIN (Reuters) - A dissident nationalist group in Northern Ireland will carry out armed attacks in mainland Britain as part of its campaign for a united Ireland, its representative said in a newspaper interview on Sunday.

The Real IRA, a splinter paramilitary group of the IRA, also claimed responsibility for the 2006 murder of Denis Donaldson, a former Sinn Fein chief administrator and spy for the British, and made threats against Sinn Fein deputy first minister Martin McGuiness.

Sinn Fein is the political wing of the IRA and McGuiness was a senior IRA commander in the 1970s.

In the interview with Ireland's Sunday Tribune the Real IRA representative said it planned to attack Britain "when it becomes opportune."

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The Real IRA split from the IRA in 1997 over that group's involvement in the Northern Ireland peace process, which in 1998 ended 30 years of fighting between minority Irish Republican Catholics and protestants which killed more than 3,600 people.

The Massereene attacks were the worst since the peace deal.

Somebody obviously hasn't done their research.