Editing Omagh bombing (section)

=== GCHQ monitoring ===
A BBC ''Panorama'' documentary, titled "Omagh: What the Police Were Never Told", was aired in September 2008. It revealed that the British intelligence agency [[Government Communications Headquarters|GCHQ]] was monitoring mobile phone calls between the bombers as the bomb car was being driven into Omagh.<ref name=rightswatch15>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20131019094823/http://www.rwuk.org/new/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Omagh-Report-15-8-13.pdf Report into the Omagh bombing]}}, rwuk.org (August 2013), pp. 15–16.</ref> Ray White, former Assistant Chief of RUC Special Branch, said GCHQ had been monitoring mobile phones at their request. He said he believed GCHQ were listening to the phone calls 'live', rather than merely recording them for later.<ref name=rightswatch15 /> John Ware claimed that a listening device had been hidden in the car and that GCHQ had recordings of what was said. None of this information was given to the RUC in Omagh at the time.<ref name=rightswatch15 /> Transcripts of the phone calls were later handed over to RUC Special Branch.<ref name="BBC">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7606834.stm|title=GCHQ 'monitored Omagh bomb calls'|date=14 September 2008|access-date=14 September 2008|work=BBC News}}</ref>