No group claimed responsibility for the attack in the town of Omagh, but police and politicians universally blamed Irish Republican Army dissidents who are determined to target any Irish Catholics who join the Northern Ireland police force.
"While those behind this act seek to promote division and conflict, let us state clearly: They will fail," said Sinn Fein deputy leader Martin McGuinness, a former IRA commander.
Northern Ireland's police force has been radically transformed over the past decade in a major success for the peace process. A policy of favoring Catholic recruits helped to turn the force from 8 percent Catholic in 2001 to 30 percent Catholic today.
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