Northern Ireland dismantles potential terrorist attack that New IRA intended to carry out during Biden's visit
The president will visit the country next Tuesday for the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. There he will meet with United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
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Northern Ireland dismantled Sunday a possible terrorist attack that the New IRA intended to carry out during Joe Biden's visit to the country. The president will visit Northern Ireland next Tuesday for the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement and, prior to this, the police carried out several security operations. In one of them, reports The Belfast Telegraph, they dismantled a plot that the terrorist group had prepared to carry out during Biden's visit to Northern Ireland.
British Army artillery experts found material during a raid that could have been used to manufacture explosives in Derry, the second largest city in Northern Ireland and one of those most affected by the conflict. In it, 3,500 people lost their lives during the three decades of conflict between Ireland and the U.K.
According to police sources, "the belief is that the New IRA was planning some sort of attack to coincide with Biden's visit, similar to the mortar attack on the cops in Strabane last November." This information was provided, according to the newspaper El Mundo, by the British intelligence services. These security forces decided to increase the terrorist alert in Northern Ireland to the highest level ("severe risk") for the first time in more than a decade.
Biden says terrorist threat will not prevent his visit to Northern Ireland
The threat will not prevent the U.S. president from attending his appointment. He made it clear: "No, they can't keep me out," he said in statements reported by the Daily Mail. Biden will arrive in Northern Ireland on Tuesday afternoon. However, his schedule will not begin until Wednesday. On that day he will give a speech at the new campus of the University of Ulster which will be attended by more than 20,000 people.
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will also attend the event. He will participate in the previous events planned in Belfast, and he will also take the opportunity to meet with President Biden and, together, celebrate what was achieved 25 years ago. This was his assurance on Sunday:
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