Suspect arrested Mexico massacre

 scientific Forensic work to identify the dead the Mexican Navy said it has captured the main suspect in the murder of 145 people whose bodies were found in pools in the North of the State of Tamaulipas earlier this month.

Omar Martin Estrada - known as El Kilo - is accused of being the local chief of the drug cartel Zetas in San Fernando, where the bodies were found.

A $1. 2 m (￡ 735,000) reward had been offered for his arrest.

It is believed that most of the victims have been removed from the bus.

Mr. Estrada is also accused of being involved in the murder of 72 migrants Central and South America, whose bodies were found in the same area last year.

Five other suspects were also arrested.

The security forces had already arrested at least 16 suspected members of the Zetas in relation to mass graves.

They also questioned 16 local police charged with protecting the criminals.

It is believed that most of the victims have been removed from the intercity bus travelling north to the American border.

The motive for the murders is not clear, but there is speculation that the cartel gunmen may have killed men who refused to join their ranks.

Missing

San Fernando near the border with American is one of the deadliest places in the Mexico drug war, says the BBC Julian Miglierini in Mexico City.

It is believed that the Zetas and their former allies, the Gulf cartel, are fought for control of the region because it is a route for illicit drug trafficking to the United States, our correspondent adds.

Forensic scientists have worked to identify the bodies, which some have been taken to Mexico City.

Hundreds of people whose parents disappeared went to see if they can identify the members of their families among the dead.

The Mexican Government, said about 35,000 people have been killed in violence related to the drug since President Felipe Calderón began deploying troops to fight the cartels in December 2006.

More than 5,000 people have been reported missing, according to the Mexico human rights commission.

Irish police arrested in murder of British spy 2

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.