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Fri 03 Mar 2009Intelligence forces recalled to North for security duty
SPECIAL BRITISH forces are to be returned to Northern Ireland to counter the growing threat from dissident republicans, it has been reported.
Members of the Special Reconnaissance regiment, skilled in undercover intelligence gathering, are being recalled from Afghanistan and Iraq in response to growing concerns about republicans opposed to the new political arrangements at Stormont.
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