The British government raised its terrorism threat level assessment in Northern Ireland to “severe” on Tuesday, two weeks before an expected visit to Belfast by President Joe Biden.
Biden said last month he would visit Northern Ireland for the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday peace accord that stemmed three decades of bloody sectarian conflict in the province. Dates have not yet been announced.
MI5, Britain’s domestic security service, raised the terror threat due to the “very latest intelligence and analysis of factors,” according to Britain’s Northern Ireland secretary, Chris Heaton-Harris.
