Irish bomb case

The Associated Press

OMAGH, Northern Ireland -- Northern Ireland's embattled police commander published a detailed rebuttal Thursday to accusations his force bungled its response to the province's bloodiest atrocity, the 1998 bombing that killed 29 people in Omagh.

Constable Ronnie Flanagan insisted that detectives have identified the Irish Republican Army dissidents responsible for the attack, in which a 500-pound car bomb tore through a crowd of people in the town's main shopping district.

But relatives of the victims said they have waited too long for justice. Only one person has been charged.