AFP/ GETTY PM Cameron is 'extremely worried' about the crisis in Northern Ireland

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About 50 plain-clothed and unarmed soldiers drawn from the Special Reconnaissance Regiment will support police in undercover operations. It comes after a growing number of incidents in which threats have been made to murder police officers following what appears to be an internal battle between former IRA members. The Special Forces team will be largely deployed around the Anderstown area of west Belfast, a republican stronghold where members of the IRA are associated with organised crime. Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday said he was “extremely worried” about the crisis within the Northern Ireland Executive, with experts fearing it may unravel the work of 1998’s Good Friday Agreement and the subsequent St Andrews Agreement of 2006.

I want to see the politicians of Northern Ireland working out how to make these institutions work Mr Cameron