Eleven held on dissident murders
ELEVEN people are now being quizzed over last week's dissident outrages.
Another two men, aged 31 and 27, were detained in Craigavon, Co Armagh, this morning, in connection with the killing of PC Stephen Carroll.
Probe
Five people are already being questioned about the murder of the 48-year-old grandfather, pictured, shot by a Continuity IRA sniper while answering a call from a distressed women who had a window in her home broken.
The murder was the first of a police officer in Northern Ireland in more than decade.
Interrogation
Another four people are being questioned about the murders of two soldiers outside the Massereene Army base in Antrim two days before the policeman's murder.
The fresh arrests bring to 11 the number of people being detained over the dissident outrages.
Those already in custody include two high-profile republicans.
Detectives also continue to examine a gun and ammunition seized by police in one of a series of raids on Saturday.
Massacre
Officers are tracking the dissident republicans who shot Sappers Patrick Azimkar, 21, from London, and Mark Quinsey, 23, from Birmingham, at the Massereene Barracks, for which the Real IRA claimed responsibility, and Pc Carroll in Craigavon.
Police were attacked by masked youths in the Craigavon area on Saturday after they arrested hardline republican Colin Duffy, 41, at his home in Lurgan over the murder of the two soldiers.
Riots
A police officer was injured when he was struck on the shoulder with a brick. There were also disturbances last night when youths set fire to two cars near the front of the nationalist Drumbeg estate.
Also among those arrested was 32-year-old Declan McGlinchey, son of notorious republican paramilitary leader Dominic McGlinchey.
Before his death, was dubbed the most wanted man in Ireland.
Inmate
Duffy is a former IRA prisoner who broke away from mainstream republicanism and criticised Sinn Fein's decision to back the new PSNI.
He came to prominence in the 1990s after being acquitted of the IRA murder of a soldier when it emerged that a key witness was a loyalist paramilitary.
He was later arrested over the IRA murder of two Royal Ulster Constabulary officers, Roland John Graham and David Andrew Johnston, gunned down in 1997 as they walked the beat in Lurgan.
The case against Duffy collapsed amid huge controversy.
His solicitor, Rosemary Nelson, received threats and was later murdered in a loyalist car bomb attack at her Lurgan home in 1999.
Most wanted
McGlinchey's father, Dominic, was a notorious republican gunman known as "Mad Dog", who boasted of personally killing 30 people.
He was a member of the IRA, but later joined the smaller INLA grouping which he eventually led before he was shot dead in Drogheda, Co Louth, in 1994.
Earlier, in 1987, Declan McGlinchey was present when his mother, Mary, was shot dead in her home. Security forces linked her death to a republican feud.
Detectives are examining CCTV footage from around the Massereene Barracks and also what is believed to be the gunmen's getaway car which was found abandoned seven miles from the scene of the murders.
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