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The police have warned Sinn Fein's Gerry Kelly that dissident republicans plan to attack him in the near future.The police have warned Sinn Fein's Gerry Kelly that dissident republicans plan to attack him in the near future.
Mr Kelly showed reporters an official warning he had received before heading into the first meeting of the Stormont sub-group on policing and justice.Mr Kelly showed reporters an official warning he had received before heading into the first meeting of the Stormont sub-group on policing and justice.
Sinn Fein has said its members would "take precautions to minimise risks". "I think we have to take a threat like this as serious, but it is not going to distract me which is the important thing to say," he said.
"It is worrying for my family, but we will get on with the business."
Republican sources say threats to senior party members have come from disaffected IRA members who left the organisation in recent months.Republican sources say threats to senior party members have come from disaffected IRA members who left the organisation in recent months.
Speaking on BBC Newsline's i-Generation webcast for young people last month, Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde said threats to the Sinn Fein leadership from dissident republicans were "very real".Speaking on BBC Newsline's i-Generation webcast for young people last month, Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde said threats to the Sinn Fein leadership from dissident republicans were "very real".
Sir Hugh said the dissidents were "determined to wreck everything that has been achieved in Northern Ireland".Sir Hugh said the dissidents were "determined to wreck everything that has been achieved in Northern Ireland".
"The Sinn Fein leadership say their perception is the threat against them has increased - I don't think they're wrong," he said."The Sinn Fein leadership say their perception is the threat against them has increased - I don't think they're wrong," he said.
"Because of where the leadership wants to take their organisation, which is down a political and an entirely proper route towards a debate on the future of the island of Ireland, there are people who don't want that to happen. Policing
"They'd far rather do what they've done in the past, which is violence." The policing sub-committee brings together the DUP, the Ulster Unionists, Sinn Fein and the SDLP.
They are expected to tackle the precise structure of any future policing ministry and when such sensitive powers could be taken on by a devolved minister.
However, the SDLP's Alex Attwood said he believed such a move could only happen if there was the "political will from the DUP and Sinn Fein to stop their narrow tactical positioning in advance of an election".
BBC political editor Mark Devenport said: "If the committee has not made real progress by the end of January, then the whole future of the St Andrews Agreement may be in doubt."