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# Terrorist alert on mainland over Queen's visit to Dublin
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## Britain has been put on high alert after dissident Irish republicans
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claimed they had planted a bomb in central London in protest at the Queen's
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historic visit to Dublin.
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![Police checking the drains after a security alert at The Mall in London:
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Irish republican dissidents issue bomb threat for London][1]
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Police checking the drains after a security alert at The Mall in London Photo:
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EPA
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By [Duncan Gardham][2], and Gordon Rayner 6:52PM BST 16 May 2011
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Scotland Yard received a coded alert that a device had been planted in the
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capital without identifying a location or a time for the attack, sources told
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the Daily Telegraph.
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The warning, which used an agreed code-word, was received on Sunday evening
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and has already resulted in the closure of areas around Buckingham Palace and
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Trafalgar Square after two separate alerts.
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A spokesman for Scotland Yard said "all officers have been advised to be a
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highly vigilant to ensure the safety of London."
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They advised Londoners to "continue to go about their business as usual" but
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added: "We encourage the public to remain vigilant and report any information
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about unusual activity or behaviour which may be terrorist-related to the
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confidential Anti-Terrorist Hotline."
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**[The Queen's][3]** four-day visit, which begins on Tuesday, will be the
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first by a British monarch for 100 years.
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## Related Articles
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* [Day one of the Queen's Ireland visit][4]
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17 May 2011
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* [Protests over the Royal visit - in pictures][5]
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17 May 2011
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* [The Queen in Ireland: itinerary of historical trip][6]
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17 May 2011
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* [Highlights of the historical Ireland trip][7]
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17 May 2011
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* [Ireland prepares to welcome Queen][8]
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16 May 2011
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* [Buckingham Palace closed after bomb threat][9]
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16 May 2011
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In the first alert in London, police officers searching the Mall, which leads
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from Trafalgar Square to Buckingham Palace, came across a loose manhole cover
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at 4.30am.
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The Metropolitan Police Marine Support Unit was called in and divers sent into
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the sewers before the all-clear was given seven hours later.
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Search dogs were also used and more than ten emergency response vehicles,
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including police cars and ambulances stood ready as the searches were
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underway.
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In the second incident a suspicious package, thought to be a suitcase, was
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found abandoned outside a hotel in Northumberland Avenue at around 9.30am.
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The bomb squad was called and used a remote controlled robot to investigate
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and then conduct a controlled explosion on the case, which was found to be
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"non-suspicious."
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An attempted break in was also reported at Carlton House Terrace close to the
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Foreign Secretary's residence at around 4.20am.
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The threat level from Irish-related terrorism remains at substantial meaning
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that an attack is a strong possibility.
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The threat level was raised in September last year after intelligence
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suggested that dissidents had the capability to operate in mainland Britain.
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A Home Office spokesman said: "We face a real and serious threat from
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terrorism. There is a continuing need for vigilance and the public should
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report any suspicious activity to the police."
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The alert came as Dublin imposed an unprecedented £20m security operation for
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the four-day visit.
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The centre of Dublin has become a vehicle-free zone to prevent terrorist car
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bombs as a parking ban was enforced in more than 50 streets in the centre of
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the capital.
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More than 8,000 policemen and 2,000 soldiers will flood Dublin in what will be
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by far the biggest security operation Ireland has ever seen.
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Ireland's Defence Forces are on such a high state of alert that an air defence
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"umbrella" of missiles and guns will be in place to protect the Baldonnel
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military air base where the royal flight will land, while armoured vehicles
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will be deployed in Dublin.
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The visit, which came at the invitation of President Mary McAleese, is seen as
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a key milestone in the peace process which began with the 1998 Good Friday
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agreement.
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The Queen's itinerary will include a wreath-laying ceremony at a Garden of
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Remembrance for "those who died in the cause of Irish freedom", and a visit to
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Croke Park stadium, where British troops opened fire at a Gaelic football
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match in 1920, killing 14 people.
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But the Real IRA has described the Queen as a "war criminal" during a
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commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising last month.
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Marian Price, who was convicted of bombing the Old Bailey in 1973, appeared
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alongside a masked member of the Real IRA at the ceremony, and was later
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arrested.
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She was sent back to prison on Monday after her licence was revoked, accused
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of encouraging support for an illegal organisation - the 32 County Sovereignty
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Movement.
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In recent weeks police in Northern Ireland have discovered two separate hauls
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of bomb-making equipment along with a weapons cache in a vehicle in south
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Armagh.
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The finds came three weeks after the murder of PC Ronan Kerr by republican
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dissidents in Omagh, County Tyrone.
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