RICHARD BLYSTONE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Omagh is the kind of place where there had been tensions, but there were a lot of people who got along reasonably well with each other there.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Anybody that can think they can justify this, they are not Irish, and the people didn't deserve this in Omagh. They didn't deserve it. They don't deserve it anywhere.</s>BLYSTONE: The way it was done was characteristic. A bomb was planted, left in a vehicle, and then the police were called and, as usual in such cases, the bombers always blame the police for not getting the information right when the thing goes off and kills somebody. But as it happened, either the information that the police were given was wrong, or they misinterpreted it, and they cleared out the wrong end of town. It was a busy time of day, and there were lots of shoppers, lots of people passing by. Lots of Catholics, and lots of Protestants all in the same road when it went off. And the slaughter was awful. And it brought that community together in a way that nothing else possibly could have done it. It is a shame it had to happen that way, but it did. It probably do more to promote the peace process than it did to destroy it.
CNN 20: Car Bomb in Omagh, N. Ireland, August 15, 1998