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AFPThe head of the hardline Real IRA was found liable Monday with three other men for Northern Ireland's 1998 Omagh bombing in a landmark Belfast civil court ruling on a case brought by victims' families.
Twenty-nine people, including Spanish tourists visiting the town, were killed in the bombing, the worst atrocity in three decades of violence which wracked the province.
No-one has been convicted in a criminal court over the attack, but victims' relatives launched a civil legal action against five men they accuse of plotting the bombing, including Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt.
The Real IRA is a splinter group from the Irish Republican Army (IRA), once the main Catholic militant organisation opposed to British rule in the province.
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