Omagh victims demand probe after learning bombers' calls were tapped on way to attack

Families of the Omagh bombing victims renewed demands for a public inquiry last night after discovering British Intelligence recorded the terrorists’ signalling to prime the bomb.
The Government’s listening centre, GCHQ, intercepted Real IRA mobile phone messages as they planted the 500lb car bomb that killed 29 people and unborn twins.
It even recorded the same coded phrase heard a fortnight earlier when the gang detonated an identical bomb in a nearby town.But, according to tonight’s BBC Panorama programme, details of the phone tap were never passed on to police.
If GCHQ had been monitoring the calls live then the worst attack in the history of Northern Ireland’s Troubles might have
been averted, the documentary claims. Read HERE