Irish police questioned two dissidents suspected of IRA Wednesday by the murder of a senior Sinn Fein official who has been exposed as a British spy, a scandal that has inspired a legion of conspiracy theories.
Denis Donaldson died when an attacker shot at the end bearing with a shotgun at the door of his cottage in the County of Donegal, April 4, 2006.
The Republican Army Irish veteran went into hiding after the admission of 56 years, he served as a mole in British intelligence in the movement of Sinn Fein-IRA for two decades. He was one of several such spies planted by British intelligence officers.
The arrests Tuesday night of a 70-year-old man and Wednesday morning to a 31-year-old man, both in Donegal in the Northwest of the Ireland, were the first in a five-year investigation. They were questioned at the police station in the town of Letterkenny in Donegal, where they could be held up to three days before the indictment or released.
This month, police on both sides of the Irish border have launched a crackdown on dissidents will go after their April 2 murder of a police officer of the Ireland of the North - the first such massacre in two years - and to minimize the risk of security during the visit of May 17-20 of Queen Elizabeth in the Republic of Ireland.
The visit, the first by a British monarch in a century, is meant to symbolize irreversible success of nearly two decades of peace in North Ireland.
Donaldson has risen rapidly in the ranks of the IRA during the campaign of failed 1970-97 of the outlaw group to force the Ireland of the North of the United Kingdom. He took part in a training camp IRA to the Lebanon in 1981, then - after secretly joining the British pay as indicator - became a Sinn Fein-IRA Ambassador coordinate the activities of supporters of the IRA overseas since the end of the 1980s.
Donaldson was the central figure in one of the most destabilizing and bizarre of political subterfuge following the peace agreement negotiated in the U.S. Friday.
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