Officer tells inquiry he believes police were the intended target of Omagh bomb

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Officer tells inquiry he believes police were the intended target of Omagh bomb

Norman Haslett told a public inquiry of scenes of ‘hell’ in the aftermath of the 1998 explosion. The Real IRA most likely set out to murder police when they left a massive car bomb in the centre of Omagh in 1998, an officer has told a public inquiry. Norman Haslett told the Omagh Bombing Inquiry that while the bomb killed 29 civilians, including a woman pregnant with twins, he believed that police were the intended target. Mr Haslett told how th…