Man held in Omagh bomb hunt

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From The Guardian:
Angelique Chrisafis
Tuesday February 8, 2005
The Guardian

Detectives investigating the Omagh bombing yesterday arrested and questioned a 34-year-old man about serious terrorist offences.

The man, believed to be from Dundalk in the Irish Republic, was arrested in Newry by Northern Ireland police investigating the 1998 Real IRA bombing which killed 29 people in the worst single atrocity of the Troubles.

Although one man has been charged with possessing the timer power unit used to detonate the car bomb, no one has been convicted of carrying out the attack. The only person jailed in connection with the bombing, Colm Murphy, had his conviction quashed by a Dublin appeal court last month and is facing a retrial.

Relatives of some Omagh victims have launched a £15m civil action against the five men they suspect of plotting the attack. But yesterday Dublin's special criminal court refused to release court documents for their case.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1408153,00.html