DUBLIN (AP) — The governments of Britain and Ireland say they have closed down an expert panel that provided assessments of terrorism trends in Northern Ireland.
Thursday's move concludes seven years of investigations by the panel into the activities of the Irish Republican Army, its splinter groups and a range of anti-Catholic gangs in Northern Ireland.
The group included a former CIA director and a former commander of the anti-terrorist unit of Scotland Yard. Analysts say its early reports pinning blame for major crimes on the IRA spurred that outlawed group to renounce violence and disarm in 2005.
Britain's lead official in Northern Ireland, Owen Paterson, says the experts' final report will be published after the May 5 election of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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