Britain says North Ireland paramilitary groups still exist but not plotting attacks

By William James LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Tuesday that all the main paramilitary groups from Northern Ireland's three-decade conflict, including the Provisional IRA, remain in existence but the biggest security threat was posed by dissident republicans. In an assessment that underscored both the weaknesses and successes of a 1998 power-sharing deal that has brought broad peace to the British province, Northern Ireland's police service and Britain's MI5 intelligence agency said the men