Bush's plans were not affected by the threats

national | miscellaneous | news report Monday April 07, 2003 16:41 by USA TODAY

A British soldier patrols the main street outside Hillsborough Castle, Northern Ireland.

Bush's plans were not affected by the threats because he was not scheduled to use the highway and was flying into a different airport.

Police said a telephone caller claiming to represent Irish Republican Army dissidents warned that a bomb was in the terminal at Belfast City Airport, in east Belfast.

The threat, delivered in the name of the Real IRA, forced police to close a major road near the airport for about two hours, snarling morning rush-hour traffic.

Police declared the threat a hoax after finding nothing suspicious, and both the road and airport reopened.