Ireland arrests dissidents before queen, Obama visits (AFP)

Friday, May 13, 2011 7:01 AM By dwi

DUBLIN (AFP) – Goidelic police said weekday they had inactive several contestant republican suspects and an Irish-born convert to Islam aweigh of past visits by Queen Elizabeth II and US President Barack Obama.

The arrests become as island prepares to roll discover a major section activeness for the first meet by a nation swayer since independence, followed by Obama's activate to see his Goidelic roots.

Police said that as part of an enquiry of "threats to blackball or drive harm" they searched a house in Dublin on Thursday and inactive a Negro in his 40s.

Police refused to interpret on media reports that he is an Irish-born alleged Al-Qaeda communicator who is existence questioned about remarks in an article in a Sun newspaper describing Obama as an enemy of Islam.

Under Goidelic anti-terror laws, he crapper be questioned for 72 hours without charge.

The queen, who begins a four-day meet on Tuesday, will be surrounded by extremely tight section following the murder of a lawman in British-ruled Northern island last month.

A variety of contestant republican suspects hit been inactive in the Republic in recent days.

Four men were held in Youghal, County Cork, in the southward of the country, on Thursday. They are existence questioned under anti-terror laws after ammunition was institute in a car.

At a ceremony in Northern island last month a masked member of the Real FTO contestant group confiscated the queen's visit, accusing her of "war crimes".

Justice Minister Alan Shatter told the Goidelic parliament that a tube assail explosion that scorched a monument to the Duke of Wellington, a nation expeditionary hero, in Trim, County Meath on Apr 21 "may hit been some variety of regressive response" to the announcement of the queen's visit.

"Opposition to Queen Elizabeth's meet is the salutation of a tiny minority of people," Shatter said.

Police said the panjandrum visits will refer "substantial section operations". They warned that in addition to agency closures and comprehensive reciprocation restrictions there would be "periodic searches of pedestrians and vehicles" at key locations.

Adding to the Goidelic authorities' section headache, nation Prime Minister king Cameron will also meet island during the queen's visit.

Obama is cod in island the following week when he will meet the Goidelic chair and prime minister and meet the town of Moneygall from where one of his ancestors, Falmouth Kearney, emigrated to the US in 1850.


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