Report denies Omagh bombers tracked by agency

CLAIMS that intelligence agents tracked the Omagh bombers on the day of the attack but failed to alert police were rejected in an official report yesterday.

Peter Gibson, the intelligence services commissioner, said he had found no evidence to back up allegations the British government’s listening station GCHQ intercepted information that could have prevented the 1998 atrocity.

Twenty-nine people, including a mother pregnant with twins, were killed when a Real IRA car bomb exploded in the town after misleading warnings.