August 15, 1998-a five-hundred pound car bomb exploded in the centre of the small northern Irish town of #Omagh. It killed 29 men, women and children. #NorthernIreland's deadliest single bomb attack brought immediate condemnation from all political sides, and pledges to catch those responsible. But 17 years later, no one has been convicted for it.
This has led some to consider a frightening possibility: that the British #SecretServices knew of the planned attack, but let it go ahead to protect an undercover British agent who had infiltrated the terrorist organisation involved in the bombing - "It has been suggested that by stopping the bombing they may have been revealing an informer who was very important from an intelligence perspective. The state potentially allowed, or turned a blind eye, to their civilians losing their lives."
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