DUP sharpshooter lan Paisley Jnr is gunning for ex-Provo war-lord Thomas 'Slab' Murphy.Veteran republican Murphy is in the Westminster MP's sights after the 60-year-old's Bandit Country house was raided during this week's joint Garda, PSNI and Customs mega-raid on suspected fake fuel scam smugglers.
Murphy was stopped and questioned near his Ballybinaby mansion, which sits just six feet on the Republic's side of the Border in County Louth. He was not arrested.
Murphy has already appeared in court in Dublin to face nine allegations of failing to file income tax returns from 1994 to 1996.
In 2011, he was named as Chief-of-Staff of the Provos' Army Council. He has publicly denied that role.
The home of a petrol retailer and the offices of an international transport company were also raided. In one raid, Gardai claimed to have shut down "the biggest fuel laundering operation on these islands'.
Estimates put its annual production capacity at 10 million litres - which equates to a loss to the Dublin EXchequer of €5.5m a year.
However, Paisley Jnr called for an inquiry into why not one person was lifted and held for questioning. He stated: "For there to have been not one single arrest is a complete embarrassment."
