[Benson_Carter]

Omagh was a terrible, terrible day in Eire, and the point of me posting this article was not to drum up support for those who committed this terrible atrocity. Rather, it was to point out the hypocrisy, the underhandedness, the evil policy of the British government to ignore these warnings, to maximize damaged caused by these rouge terrorist groups to make them even worse, in the hopes of turning people more towards the government and away from "the cause".

Obviously this is a terrible act, but is there some of the blood from the 29 dead on the hands of the Brits?

[Benson_Carter]

ping; for discussion.

[Hoplite]

I'd be curious as to how many bomb threats the authorities over there had to deal with on a daily (or whatever unit of time is appropriate) basis around the time of the Omagh bombing, and what would have indicated that this threat should have been treated any differently.

In any event, I gotta think that the guy who made the decision to put the info on this one in the 'no action' pile wasn't too happy about himself afterwards.

[jonatron]

...to maximize damage caused by these rouge terrorist groups to make them even worse, in the hopes of turning people more towards the government and away from "the cause".

What are rouge terrorists? Are they cigar-chomping thugs in pink tutus who go about blowing up civilians?

Also, you should know that Omagh is in Ulster, U.K. rather than in Eire as you and your terrorist heros would like to believe.

Obviously this is a terrible act, but is there some of the blood from the 29 dead on the hands of the Brits?

No. Do you also blame raped women rather than their attackers?

[xm177e2]

Obviously this is a terrible act, but is there some of the blood from the 29 dead on the hands of the Brits?

No.

[Norn Iron]

According to the Irish Times, the authorities in Dublin had a tail on those moving the bomb materials from Louth to South Armagh but lost contact at the border. They ought to have the process in the bud when they had the chance.

Policing is under the direction of London and Dublin civil servants so that control of policing matters has a political dimension. Also intelligence dissemination was apparently removed from the RUC c1994 and passed to MI5. The chances of something falling apart in this elaborate system at some point would seem quite high.

Nuala O'Loan wouldn't have had access to all the groups mentioned above - just the RUC files - so that her conclusions might be wrong.