BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -- Police Monday arrested a man suspected of helping plan a car bombing that killed 29 people in Northern Ireland's deadliest terror attack.
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Detectives said they found a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a handgun, ammunition and a substantial cache of bomb-making components in a raid on the 42-year-old suspect's home in Dundalk, a border town in the Irish Republic 50 miles south of Belfast. Police did not release the suspect's name.Police in both parts of Ireland have already arrested but released without charge more than 40 people suspected of belonging to the Irish Republican Army dissident gang that carried out the deadly Aug. 15 bombing in Omagh. None of those suspects was caught possessing weapons.