Irish terrorists may target royal wedding: Brit security officials

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A group of Irish terrorists responsible for over 40 significant terror attacks last year, may target Prince William and Kate Middleton’s royal wedding, said senior British security officials.

While there is no specific threat of any organized plot against the wedding, officials say there is "concrete intelligence" that one Irish group, calling itself the Real IRA, has been trying to move its operations beyond Northern Ireland to London.

"It is fair to assume that people are worried about an attack on the mainland," ABC News quoted Mark Hamilton, chief superintendent of the policed service in Northern Ireland, as saying.

The British officials in charge of countering domestic terrorism, MI5, have recently increased surveillance of suspected Irish terror leaders, shifted resources from Al-Qaeda to the Irish groups and raised the threat level of Irish-related terrorism from moderate to substantial.

"There is a massive effort by the intelligence services and the police to track these people down," said Hamilton.