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United Kingdom Terrorism 2018

SOURCE: 2018 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











United Kingdom Terrorism 2018
SOURCE: 2018 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES


Page last updated on February 28, 2018

Terrorist groups - home based:
Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA): aim(s): disrupt the Northern Ireland peace process, remove British rule in Northern Ireland and, ultimately, unify Ireland area(s) of operation: based and operationally active primarily in Belfast and along the border areas of Northern Ireland, where operatives have carried out bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, hijackings, extortion, and robberies over the years; articulates its intent to target drug dealers and other criminals, especially those who harm any Republican, including RIRA members; remains sporadically operational targeting primarily the British military, Northern Ireland security forces, and Loyalist paramilitary groups; attacks in recent years involve shootings and small-scale bombings; does not have an established presence on the UK mainland; accused in 1996 of directing operatives to park a vehicle with 1,500 pounds of homemade explosives at the Killyhelvin Hotel in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland; on 15 July 1996, at least 11 people were injured and most of the immensely popular and newly refurbished hotel was demolished; the attack occurred during the original IRA's first ceasefire; estimated in 2016 to have 50-100 members
Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA): aim(s): committed to using violence to remove British rule in Northern Ireland, disupt the Northern Ireland peace process, and unify Ireland area(s) of operation: based and operationally active in Northern Ireland, where operatives continue to conduct occasional shootings and small-scale bombings; RIRA claimed responsibility for the 2 April 2011 murder of the Police Services of Northern Ireland's Constable Ronan Kerr, who was killed when a booby-trap bomb exploded under his car in Omagh; RIRA conducted its deadliest attack in the UK on 15 August 1998, when operatives detonated a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device with 500 pounds of explosives on a busy street in Omagh, killing 29 people and injuring at least 220; maintains a limited presence in Great Britain; estimated in 2015 to have a 100 active members

Terrorist groups - foreign based:
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL): aim(s): bolster its support and recruitment networks in the UK and, ultimately, destabilize the UK economy area(s) of operation: maintains support and recruitment networks; Anjem CHOUDARY and associate Mizanur RAHMAN pled guilty on 16 August 2016 to inviting support for ISIL; CHOUDARY founded the banned UK-based extremist movement known as al-Muhajiroun, which UK authorities accuse of recruiting and facilitating activities on ISIL's behalf; the UK is a top source country in Europe for ISIL recruits; as of early 2017, approximately 750 to 850 British citizens were fighting in Syria or Iraq alongside ISIL, planning to go to fight, or had returned from the fight


NOTE: 1) The information regarding United Kingdom on this page is re-published from the 2018 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of United Kingdom Terrorism 2018 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about United Kingdom Terrorism 2018 should be addressed to the CIA.
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  a) The assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
  b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order






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