IN THE NAME OF LOVE :

Lawyers target Omagh bomb suspects (Kevin Smith, 26 July, 2002, Reuters)

In a landmark legal case, lawyers acting for relatives of victims of the 1998 Omagh bombing have served writs on the men they blame for the bloodiest single attack in Northern Ireland's 30-year conflict.

In the opening steps in a civil action believed to represent a first in legal history, and that has already attracted attention from Israel, Spain and the United States, writs were served on five men in the Irish republic on Friday.

Twenty-nine people died, including a woman pregnant with twins, and 200 were injured when the Real IRA -- the dissident republican group opposed to the province's peace process -- detonated a 500lb (225kg) bomb in the market town of Omagh on a busy Saturday afternoon in August 1998. [...]

Early on Friday, writs were served at the homes of Seamus Daly and Seamus McKenna in Dundalk, County Louth, close to the Irish border. While the men did not answer the door, a solicitor in the case said he was satisfied the writs had been served.

Later, writs were served on three prisoners at Portlaoise jail, south of the Irish capital Dublin -- Michael McKevitt, Liam Campbell, and Colm Murphy who is the only person so far to have been convicted of an offence in connection with the blast. [...]

The Omagh attack came just months after the signing of the Good Friday peace agreement aimed at ending three decades of bloodshed. More than 3,600 people were killed in the conflict.

In an exquisite irony it was this contemptible attack that finished off the IRA for good as a political force. Hopefully lawsuits like this one will bankrupt them too. There's no difference between them and Hamas. Posted by Orrin Judd at July 26, 2002 2:04 PM