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Thu 08 Aug 2006Fires point to work of dissident groupDissident republicans may have been behind two blazes at tyre depots in Co Tyrone. Up to 10 staff may lose their jobs at the stores in Dungannon damaged by suspected arson attacks.If shown to be arson, the incidents could be the latest in a week of attacks from republican dissidents including a bomb attack on the Co Louth property of Lord Ballyedmond, better known as former senator and businessman Edward Haughey.