Sensational: ‘IRA and ISIS working together to launch CAR BOMB CAMPAIGN on Britain’
The IRA and ISIS are working together, according to UKIP’s Northern Irish leader
David McNarry, the chair of the Northern Irish branch of Ukip, exposed to Express.co.uk a growing partnership inbetween the two terrorist groups in Ireland which he labelled “enormously worrying.”
He said: “I`ve spoken to security people, some old timers. What they were most interested in was how ISIS was developing car bombs.”
He said the switch from the jihadis` suicide attacks to car bombs was due to bomb-making lessons from former Provisional IRA members, known as Provos, in the Republic of Ireland.
McNarry said: “Provos never strapped assets bombs to themselves. The people I spoke to were keen to stress it was very likely they had learned how to make car bombs from Provos. These were people I trust.
“Car bombs are more lethal. Suicide bombers announce themselves almost, but car bombers don`t. I know from practice, as does anybody who has lived through the terrorist activity here, that you can bomb the hell out of a city.”
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An ISIS cell operating in the Republic of Ireland, he said, was very capable of launching an attack on mainland Britain with their fresh IRA bomb skill.
Due to the porous border with Northern Ireland and readily-available ferry services across the Irish Sea, McNarry said jihadis would have no trouble making their way from Dublin to England, Scotland or Wales.
He said: “We have the poorest border in the world. We know that from the old Provo activity. No-one can cross the border better than the IRA. They would cross in the dark of night, commit their despicable deeds and then go back.”
David McNarry, chair of Ukip’s Northern Irish party group
The border just isn’t there. It’s so effortless to be breached. I’m sounding alarm bells. We’re on alert, be careful
When asked whether he feared that Ireland was being used as a base for an attack in mainland Britain, as Belgium was for the November terror attacks in Paris which left one hundred thirty dead, McNarry said: “That’s my big fear.”
He exposed that busloads of “foreigners” were regularly driving from Dublin across the border to Larne in Northern Ireland, where they boarded ferries to Scotland and “disappeared.”
McNarry said: “How effortless it is for people to be crossing the border – the border just isn`t there. It`s so effortless to be breached. I’m sounding alarm bells. We’re on alert, be careful.”
He warned that Ireland’s history of terrorism made it a ideal base for a European ISIS cell.
He said: “Ireland has never lost its criminal society. Terrorism in Northern Ireland was and is criminal activity.
“But the fresh threat is ISIS. Terrorism is a collective world and technology and capability will be collective.”
A building in London’s Docklands lies in ruins after an IRA bomb attack in 1996
Most ISIS attacks have used suicide bombers rather than car bombs, which were favoured by the IRA
Terrorism in Ireland has been in decline since the one thousand nine hundred ninety eight Good Friday Agreement, in which most dissident groups disposed of their weapons, but has recently experienced a petite resurgence.
Last month, a prison officer in Belfast died following a car bomb attack carried out by the Fresh IRA, a splinter nationalist group that does not recognise the ceasefire.
With the country presently celebrating the centenary of the one thousand nine hundred sixteen Easter Rising, in which rebels claimed independence from Britain during an armed rebellion in Dublin, fresh warnings have been issued to visitors to the island.
The Australian government told its citizens to be wary of “enhanced tensions” in the country, while the UN has advised tourists to avoid protests or demonstrations.
A Garda Síochána, the Irish police force, refused to discuss the alleged link inbetween the IRA and ISIS.
A spokesperson said: “We do not comment on remarks made by third parties.
“The counter-terrorism strategies and intelligence-led operations of An Garda Síochána, in cooperation with the PSNI and International Police Compels, are focused on targeting and disrupting any operational planning or logistical support being conducted or contemplated in this jurisdiction. The level of policing and security resources, both overt and covert, dedicated to this task resumes to be commensurate to any threat posed.”