London’s Olympic venues are being tested against all potential terrorist threats, including Irish dissidents and Islamists, security in charge if the 2012 event have revealed.
Next summer’s games will mark Britain’s biggest peacetime security operation and will be policed at a severe threat level, with a Government budget of £600million ($960 million) for the security operation.
Sports enthusiasts will face airport style security before gaining admittance to the venue.
“I am trying to ensure that we produce 34 venues that are secure, that people can go in and have a really good time, that people can feel safe inside and their focus can be on the sport,” Chris
Allison, the Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner and Olympic security coordinator told the Daily Mail.
“That is at the heart of all our planning, and we'll do everything that we need around the outside to ensure that happens,” he added.
The London Games will coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Munich Olympics where 11 Israeli teams members died after they were held hostage by Palestinian gunmen.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.hinchey | Jul 07, 2011, 11:56 PM EDT
Uh..am I the only one who read the decommissioning report? Irish Central, you should know better. I am extremely disappointed in this reporting.
sirpeter | Jul 07, 2011, 12:12 PM EDT
The IRA wouldn't go near an event like the Olympics.What rubbish.
cillowen | Jul 06, 2011, 08:02 PM EDT
they should hire irish dicks who are better able to profile brethern as would islamists. smart idea eh.
maloney | Jul 06, 2011, 06:05 PM EDT
IRA threat, no. muslim threat, you bet your sweet arse.
timbobdennehy | Jul 06, 2011, 05:36 PM EDT
the IRA would not let off wind at this event let alone a bomb. the Towelheads on the Otherhand associated with al-zawiri would see this as the ultimate of massacres to their cause,they work from the inside now don,t they,i mean brainwashed white british muslims.
andrewhed | Jul 06, 2011, 03:54 PM EDT
What a bunch of fabricated and foul smelling rubbish. The same level of security will be in place regardless if the island of Ireland and all her people didn't exist. This is the sort of biased, one sided, no proof offered reporting one would expect elsewhere. While linking the IRA and Islamic treats makes for exciting sensationalist tabloid reading, it stinks to high heaven to any objective reader.
BrendanDunphy | Jul 06, 2011, 11:54 AM EDT
This article is nonsense. This same level of security has already been in place at all previous Olympic games of recent memory, and it would have been in place in London regardless of any alleged IRA threats. It is very disappointing to see an Irish media outlet putting such a negative spin on the Irish. I don't get it.
PhoenixZouave | Jul 06, 2011, 11:53 AM EDT
The stickies let the London brigade become fallow ground. Your article is just British Propaganda. Why not do a little investigative journalism on the presence of the thugs (SAS) wearing sand colored berets, still in Ireland, despite the Good Friday agreement?
PhoenixZouave | Jul 06, 2011, 11:49 AM EDT
One wonders whether the IRA has a London brigade anymore? Once a crack outfit led by the immortal Reggie Dunne, the "Stickies" probably have let this become fallow ground...
peterkissel | Jul 06, 2011, 11:03 AM EDT
Your headline reads like it was written by MI5 - which is just what they wanted. How disappointing. Once again, the Brits blame the IRA/Irish for all evil, real or imagined, and once again, Irish people (you, the Irish Central) act as stoogies to convey the message broadly. Wake up! That reasoning is a bunch of crap - London is ground zero for every terrorist outfit in the world - the IRA is the least of their worries.