Was Omagh bomb car bugged by security services?
A listening bug could have been placed inside the Vauxhall car that carried the Omagh bomb, according to a High Court document. The sensational suggestion that a security agency may have listened to the bombers on their way to the town is contained in an affidavit submitted on behalf of the Omagh relatives. The document drawn up by their solicitors calls for the release of “a recording or recordings made of transmissions from a covert listening device placed in the maroon Vauxhall Cavalier car used to house the bomb transported to Omagh on 15th August 1998, together with transcripts and notes relating to that recording”. The affidavit says the basis for the suggestion that the car itself had been fitted with a listening device is a conversation with Panorama reporter John Ware. The legal document claims that the reporter indicated to solicitors acting for the families mounting a civil case against five men from south Armagh that his inquiries had indicated that a note of conversations
