Omagh bomb enquiry

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There was no cock up, the IRA deliberately gave false information about the location of the bomb in order to cause mass casualties.
I thought it was the Real IR A who did it to de rail the peace process.
 
If they knew who was behind it why didn't they prevent it?

There is also an irrefutable (if uncomfortable) logic that, if you know who the baddies are and leave them be, you have a degree of knowledge and control over what goes on.
That is what informants, psychologists, intelligence etc all feed into.

While it might rouse the hoards to say "We'll wipe out the cartels!" or whatever, even if you did succeed, you'd just leave both a power and information vacuum behind.

A new band of baddies, about whom you now know nothing.
 
There is also an irrefutable (if uncomfortable) logic that, if you know who the baddies are and leave them be, you have a degree of knowledge and control over what goes on.
That is what informants, psychologists, intelligence etc all feed into.

While it might rouse the hoards to say "We'll wipe out the cartels!" or whatever, even if you did succeed, you'd just leave both a power and information vacuum behind.

A new band of baddies, about whom you now know nothing.
That maybe is what the victims families want exploring, but at the end of the day it's really about pursuing closure (or blame depending on your viewpoint).

The idea that intelligence and security services can effectively share all their information is as pie in the sky as expecting the police and other public bodies to do it.

What seems obvious with 20:20 hindsight is almost always impractical in reality, Perhaps we need a public inquiry in to the need for such long public inquiries. What has come out of Grenfel that couldn't have been recommended by a short technical investigation by open minded experts?
 
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Not quite true.

A number of veterans were charged 50 years after the event but the charges were dropped due to lack of evidence.

This has raised suspicions of a politically motivated witch hunt against army veterans.
Actually quite true...

Has any soldier been convicted of murdering the civilians?

In the Saville inquiry...

"One former paratrooper testified that a lieutenant told them the night before Bloody Sunday: "Let's teach these buggers a lesson - we want some kills tomorrow". He did not see anyone with a weapon nor hear any explosions, and said some fellow soldiers were thrilled and were shooting out of bravado or frustration. The paratrooper said several soldiers "fired their own personal supply of dum-dums", which were banned, and that one "fired 10 dum-dums into the crowd but as he still had his official quota he got away with saying he never fired a shot". Furthermore, the paratrooper said his original statement to the Widgery Inquiry was torn up and replaced by one "bearing no relation with fact"

"Many observers allege that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) acted in a way to impede the inquiry. Over 1,000 Army photographs and original Army helicopter video footage were never made available. Furthermore, guns used by the soldiers on Bloody Sunday, which could have been evidence in the inquiry, were lost by the MoD"

No witch hunt, just a cover up!
 
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