The move threatens further damage to the pact, now stalemated over paramilitary arms.

The RAB was founded in 2004 as a paramilitary arm of the police.

Most dramatically, it has rebuilt its long-neglected paramilitary arm, leading to closer coordination with the military's special forces units in the hunt for terrorists.

The main conclusion was that decommissioning of paramilitary arms should take place during (rather than before or after) all-party talks, in a twin-track process.

He even started a Blackshirts paramilitary arm as a copy of the Italian group, although the Union lost heavily in the 1936 elections and faded into obscurity.

Under the new, it made him a natural for service in the SS's paramilitary arms.

The Royal Ulster Constabulary, for example, is widely perceived not as a traditional police force but as a paramilitary arm of suppression.

In the peak years of the insurgency, religious violence by separatists, government-sponsored groups, and the paramilitary arms of the government was endemic on all sides.

Elements within the party also expressed support for Nazism and a paramilitary arm, Spearhead, was set up by Tyndall.