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Boats prohibited from entering six-mile stretch of Lough Erne in County Fermanagh, where world leaders are due to meet
An exclusion security zone around the picturesque lough where the G8 leaders are staying in County Fermanagh has been extended to a six-mile no-sail area.
With Black Hawk attack helicopters already deployed in the lakeland area to protect Barack Obama and the other G8 leaders, and a ring of steel erected to prevent demonstrators getting anywhere near the summit, the security forces in Northern Ireland are also intensifying pressure on dissident republicans.
A 26-year-old man is the latest to be suspected dissident to be arrested.
In less than a week, up to seven people have been detained by the Police Service of Northern Ireland over dissident republican activities, including an American woman in Derry over the weekend.
Boats and other craft will be prevented from entering a six-mile stretch of lower Lough Erne near Enniskillen. The only traffic on the water will be ribs (rigid inflatable boats), speedboats and a tugboat used by the PSNI to secure entry points towards the Lough Erne hotel resort, where eight of the most powerful people in the world are staying.
Up to 7,000 police officers are on high alert in Northern Ireland, with an additional 900 gardaí from the Irish Republic being drafted into the border region with Fermanagh.
A four-mile ring of steel with razor wire and fencing has been erected on the road to the Lough Erne hotel resort. Helicopters are patrolling the skies of Fermanagh and Belfast. About 260 temporary prison cells have been built in the grounds of a vacant British army camp in Omagh, County Tyrone.Aside from anti-capitalists there has been intense pressure on republican dissident terror groups over the past two weeks. In the latest of a series of arrests across Northern Ireland, the PSNI revealed that a 26-year-old man had been detained in Strabane, County Tyrone, on Sunday morning. The suspect had been taken to the PSNI's serious crime suite in Antrim for questioning about dissident republican activities, the force said.
Amnesty International has denounced Northern Ireland's chief constable and its justice minister for failing to respond to concerns about security overkill surrounding the G8 summit, which begins on Monday afternoon.
With central Belfast and large parts of Fermanagh resembling an armed camp at the weekend as thousands of police officers were deployed to protect the world's leaders, Amnesty said that neither Matt Baggott, the head of the PSNI, nor the devolved justice minister, David Ford had addressed the human rights organisation's worries about the security lockdown in the province.
Speaking at an Amnesty protest on Sunday lunchtime outside Belfast's Waterfront Hall over the continued operation of the Guantánamo Bay internment camp, the group's director in Northern Ireland, Patrick Corrigan, said: "Amnesty International has written to the chief constable and the Northern Ireland justice minister as well as the secretary of state, to seek assurances that there will not be over the top policing. We haven't received those assurances yet and yesterday [the protest march in Belfast] remained peaceful despite the police being out in force.
"We are disappointed that they have not responded but we got our message across on Saturday that despite a heavy security presence nobody at the anti-G8 march gave the police any real cause for worry."
Before Obama's Monday morning arrival in Belfast, actors on Sunday dressed in orange jump suits and wearing face masks depicted the plight of prisoners in Guantánamo Bay at an Amnesty event.
"I think President Obama's credibility to comment on issues of importance like peace and justice in Northern Ireland, or anywhere in the world, is fundamentally undermined by his continued inaction over Guantánamo Bay," said Corrigan. "On day one of his presidency he said it was a 'scar on the conscience for America' and he would shut it. Four years on he still hasn't shut it."