[1] In November 2007, the group also claimed responsibility for the shotgun attack that wounded a police officer driving away from his son's school in Derry.
[4] The Independent Monitoring Commission said the IRLA has a small arms collection, though its threat is not "terrorist in nature".
[2] In the twentieth IMC report, the IRLA was set to be a "essentially a group of criminals taking a republican banner in order to give supposed status to their activities".
[5] On 5 March 2008, East Antrim MP Sammy Wilson asked the Minister of State for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing Tony McNulty if he would consider prohibiting the Irish Republican Liberation Army under the Terrorism Act 2000.
McNulty replied that "As a matter of normal policy and practice we do not comment on organisations not on the proscribed list.