Irish police arrest 2 over killing of British spy

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Source: Associated Press

DUBLIN -- Irish police interrogated two suspected IRA dissidents Wednesday over the killing of a top Sinn Fein official who was exposed as a British spy, a scandal that has inspired a legion of conspiracy theories.

Denis Donaldson died when an attacker shot him from close range with a shotgun at the door of his isolated cottage in County Donegal on April 4, 2006.

The 56-year-old Irish Republican Army veteran had gone into hiding after admitting he had served as a British intelligence mole within the Sinn Fein-IRA movement for two decades. He was one of several such spies planted by British intelligence agents.

The arrests Tuesday night of a 70-year-old man and Wednesday morning of a 31-year-old man, both in Donegal in northwest Ireland, were the first in a five-year investigation. They were being questioned at the police station in the Donegal town of Letterkenny, where they could be held for up to three days before being charged or released

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