Report: Omagh could not have been prevented

A review into claims that the British secret service was monitoring dissident republicans as they drove the Omagh bomb to its target has dismissed reports that the explosion could have been prevented.

Report: Omagh could not have been prevented

A review into claims that the British secret service was monitoring dissident republicans as they drove the Omagh bomb to its target has dismissed reports that the explosion could have been prevented.

A BBC investigation claimed that the British government's main communications surveillance station had been monitoring mobile phone calls being made by the bombers as they drove to Omagh.

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