"I have also linked to MI5 who say the numbers have not gone down."
Since 2002 when the MI5 report begins
"It is not just me who accepts 2000."
The BBC report reads "It has been said" - by whom - a politician maybe?
There have been no major incidents since 2006, there have been no mass arrests, so presumably most of those under suspicion then were innocent of any crime.
The situation is so "desperate" that the government is intending to cut spending to the security services - also dealt with in the report - bit irresponsible, don'cha think, especially as the IRA has definitely become an escalating problem according to the MI5 man?.
We have no idea whatever what the figures are and if they are going up or down and claiming that we have is simple politicking to smear a whole community - as usual.
Jim Carroll