The Only Good Rat Is A Dead Rat

Sinn Fein official-turned-spy shot dead:

A former senior official of Sinn Fein recently exposed as a British spy was found fatally shot in northwest Ireland, police said Tuesday. Denis Donaldson, Sinn Fein's former legislative chief in the failed power-sharing government of Northern Ireland, admitted in December he had been on the payroll of the British secret service & the province's anti-terrorist police for the previous two decades. He then went into hiding because the traditional Irish Republican Army's punishment for informing is death.

But Ireland's national police said it wasn't clear whether Donaldson, 55, had been killed or committed suicide. In a statement, the force said the scene around his body in Glenties, County Donegal, was cordoned off for a forensic examination planned for Wednesday.
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern condemned what he called the "brutal murder" of Donaldson. The IRA said it was not involved in the death.

credit: Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press