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Wed 11 Nov 2002Six questioned about IRA gun smugglingFour men and two women were questioned last night by police in the North investigating the financing of a transatlantic IRA gun-smuggling operation. They were held after raids on houses in Belfast and north Antrim.Officers carried out raids in the latest phase of an investigation in the US, Britain and Ireland into huge arms importation by the Provisionals after declaring their ceasefire was restored.