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Event: August 1998 Omagh attack

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ALLEGED Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt recruited an ex-French Foreign Legion weapons expert as a sleeper agent, to be used if a plot was hatched to murder Prime Minister Tony Blair, it has been claimed.

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Alleged Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt wanted his planned new terror organisation’s first strike to be bigger than the Omagh bomb atrocity, a court heard today.

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