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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/dissident-may-face-20year-term.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Michael Campbell could face 20 years in prison" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-dissident-may-face-20year-term.jpg" alt="Michael Campbell could face 20 years in prison"/></a></p>
<p>Prosecutors are seeking a maximum 20-year sentence for an Irishman who allegedly tried to buy weapons in Lithuania for a dissident IRA group.</p>
<p>Michael Campbell, 38, was arrested three years ago in the Baltic state in an international sting operation with Irish police.</p>
<p>The alleged dissident republican was reportedly caught giving 10,000 euro to an undercover Lithuanian agent posing as an arms dealer.</p>
<p>&#8220;Michael Campbell is accused of serious crimes, and we have solid proof of his guilt,&#8221; prosecutor Gedgaudas Norkunas said after a closed court hearing in the capital Vilnius.</p>
<p>&#8220;All our witnesses have already been questioned by the judge, and we believe this trial is nearing to an end,&#8221; the prosecutor said.</p>
<p>Ingrida Botyriene, Campbell&#8217;s lawyer, said: &#8220;I think prosecutors are making hasty judgments on the defendant&#8217;s guilt.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the past, she has criticised the judge for accepting taped testimony from undercover agents and the slow pace of the trial.</p>
<p>Prosecutor Norkunas said Campbell, from Dundalk, has been given the opportunity to defend himself but has so far refused, saying he wanted to testify at the trial&#8217;s end.</p>
<p>The next hearing is scheduled for mid-February.</p>
<p>Campbell served a four-month prison sentence in the Netherlands in 2004 after being convicted of smuggling millions of counterfeit cigarettes into Ireland, a major criminal racket run by the Real IRA.</p>
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