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Sat 02 Feb 2010The threat level rises from dissident republican groups
A cluster of incidents in the North this week bears out warnings that once-diffuse dissident republican groups are organising, cooperating, and attracting new recruits, writes DAN KEENAN, Northern News Editor
IT HAS BEEN a stark week. Dissident republicans opposed to the peace process have, in the course of a few days, murdered Derry man Ciaran Doherty, launched a bomb attack on Newry courthouse and narrowly failed to fire mortars at Keady police station in Co Armagh. The Newry bomb was the first dissident explosion since the BBC in London was attacked in 2001 and the first anywhere in the North since Omagh in 1998, in which 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins, were murdered.
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