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Date Posted: 20:28:34 08/13/02 Tue
>Sunday Life
>Belfast TElegraph
>07 14 -2
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Omagh killer 'sitting on cancer timebomb' A SLOW,
lingering death may await the man who built the Omagh bomb that massacred 29 innocent people.
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Real IRA bomb makers have contracted potentially fatal
cancers, and their past terror activities are said to be the reason.
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Unable to obtain large quantities of high explosive,
Real IRA bombers have been forced to rely on so-called 'Co-Op mix' - an inert blend of ammonium nitrate-based farm fertiliser and diesel fuel.
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Substantial quantities of this are required to
assemble a bomb of the size used in the Omagh massacre, which was detonated by a smaller amount of commercial blasting explosive or Semtex.
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But the main ingredient of Real IRA bombs - ammonium
nitrate - is a recognised cancer-causing agent if wrongly handled.
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Several days before the Omagh atrocity, the Real IRA
terrorist said to have built the bomb was seen in Dundalk - his clothing, hands and face covered in pink dust from handling the deadly chemical mix.
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Scientific opinion suggests his 'work' will be,
literally, killing him slowly.
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Last year, Real IRA prisoner Kevin Murray - an inmate
in Portlaoise prison - died suddenly from brain cancer. Two other senior figures from the border area have now also been diagnosed with cancer.
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Illness of a different sort has also confronted the
Real IRA's alleged chief-of-staff, Michael McKevitt, and his brother, Vincent Michael McKevitt, both in Portlaoise.
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The former, charged with directing terrorism, suffers
from dangerously high blood pressure.
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He is currently awaiting trial, primarily on the
evidence of an American MI5/FBI agent.
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The latter, in the same prison as his brother and
charged with RIRA membership, had a heart attack earlier this year.
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