UK downgrades threat posed by N Ireland terrorists

Published October 24, 2012 10:06am ET



LONDON (AP) — The threat posed by Northern Ireland-related terrorism to the British mainland was downgraded Wednesday from substantial to moderate — the second lowest setting on the five point scale, Home Secretary Theresa May said.

May, the country’s top domestic security official, said in a statement that the latest assessment was that a “terrorist attack is possible, but not likely” to be carried out in England, Scotland or Wales by Irish Republican Army dissidents.

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