Fresh Omagh claims

It is being reported that a second republican informant told MI5 that Omagh was a possible car bomb target four months before the atrocity there.

Fresh Omagh claims

It is being reported that a second republican informant told MI5 that Omagh was a possible car bomb target four months before the atrocity there.

The informant reportedly identified members of the continuity IRA who had abandoned plans to bomb Omagh but provided information to the so-called real-IRA for the attack in August 1998.

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