DUBLIN, Ireland - Northern Ireland police have arrested a suspected IRA dissident on suspicion of involvement in a March 2009 gun attack that killed two off-duty British soldiers as they collected pizzas.
Two alleged IRA dissidents have already been charged with murder over the ambush -- the first deadly attack on British security forces in Northern Ireland since 1998, the year of the province's peace accord.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland said its officers arrested a 44-year-old man Tuesday in the predominantly Catholic town of Toomebridge, which lies midway between Belfast and Northern Ireland's second-largest city of Londonderry.
The man could be questioned for a maximum 28 days. Typically, however, suspects in Northern Ireland are charged or freed within two days.
