MI5 'kept police in dark over Omagh bomb'

MI5 withheld vital anti-terrorism intelligence just months before the Omagh bomb atrocity, it was revealed today.

Although the agency helped thwart an attack planned on the Co Tyrone town or Derry at the time of the signing of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, it kept police in the North in the dark about the bomb plot, according to authoritative security sources.