Gerard Couzens
10 July 2011
The Sunday Mirror
Two suspected IRA dissidents are among three men who have been arrested in the Algarve in Portugal.
Anti-terrorist officers detained the pair during raids on Friday and a Portuguese man was also held.
Ten guns and ammunition was found in one raid.
The suspected dissidents, aged 38 and 59, were yesterday in jail.
Police believe they led a support network for the Real IRA, which killed 29 people in Omagh in 1998.
None of the three detainees has been named. A Portuguese police spokesman said: "A complex investigation led to an operation in the south of the country during which three men were arrested.
"The three men, two foreigners and a Portuguese man, formed a criminal organisation dedicated amongst other things to international arms trafficking."
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