actually omagh was commited by the real ira. they werea splinter group who refused to sign the good friday agreement with the rest of the ira. the continuity ira are also in the same boat with them.

one has to remember that the war wasn't all one sided. the unionist had some quite nasty habits and the army did some nasty things as well half the time.

and while we are drawing paralels to american.s america and noraid actually happily funded the ira. so meh.

and do we class mandella as a terrorist?

yes killing civillians is bad at the best of times but....... you cannot scapegoat them when they were only half of the problem.