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[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]MI5 withheld intelligence ahead of Omagh
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The British security service, MI5, withheld vital anti-terrorism intelligence just months before the Omagh bombing in 1998, it has emerged.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]According to security sources in Northern Ireland, MI5 failed to inform Special Branch of the threat about the bomb plot. [/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The details have only just emerged as part of an investigation into an FBI agent who infiltrated the Real IRA, which carried out the attack.
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[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Relatives of some of the 29 people killed in the bombing have said they are astonished by the disclosure.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]SDLP leader Mark Durkan said: 'Allowing MI5 to have a lead role in intelligence in Northern Ireland would be like appointing Herod as children's commissioner.'[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Michael Gallagher, whose son Aidan, 21, was among those killed, said: 'At best, this is criminal negligence. At worst, it's assisting a terrorist murder plot.' [/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Three dissident republicans were arrested and later released without charge at the time of the foiled April 1998 bomb plot four-and-a-half months before Omagh was attacked.[/font]
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RTE (Ireland)
The British security service, MI5, withheld vital anti-terrorism intelligence just months before the Omagh bombing in 1998, it has emerged.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]According to security sources in Northern Ireland, MI5 failed to inform Special Branch of the threat about the bomb plot. [/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The details have only just emerged as part of an investigation into an FBI agent who infiltrated the Real IRA, which carried out the attack.
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[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Relatives of some of the 29 people killed in the bombing have said they are astonished by the disclosure.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]SDLP leader Mark Durkan said: 'Allowing MI5 to have a lead role in intelligence in Northern Ireland would be like appointing Herod as children's commissioner.'[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Michael Gallagher, whose son Aidan, 21, was among those killed, said: 'At best, this is criminal negligence. At worst, it's assisting a terrorist murder plot.' [/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Three dissident republicans were arrested and later released without charge at the time of the foiled April 1998 bomb plot four-and-a-half months before Omagh was attacked.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]One News: Watch the video
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