BT/0175

TO THE POINT

EXPOSE THE KILLERS: It has been an evil summer, filled with malice and hate - first Ballymoney and now Omagh.
We have all suffered horribly. We must learn from this summer.
There is so much bitterness between our communities that if there are any guns or explosives available, then some twisted person will use them.
There must be decommissioning and if the paramilitaries won't do it willingly, then the people must force them by informing.
It would be an act of patriotism to inform on the people who have murdered Irish children. Our silence is killing our children.
AJC, Belfast 6.

PRICE OF LOYALTY: The USA has offered a reward of 2m dollars for the people who bombed their embassies in Africa.
Can we not do the same?
If every adult in Northern Ireland chipped in £1 we could raise £lm which could be offered as a reward for information leading directly to the capture and conviction of the people who bombed Omagh.
I wonder how long their friends would protect the bombers if they had such a price on their heads?
Mrs JOY McCORMACK Belfast 5.

MIXED EMOTIONS: So the Omagh bomb has been condemned by Gerry Adams.
Is this Gerry Adams any relation of the Gerry Adams who helped to carry the coffin of the Shankill Road bomber, Thomas Begley, at his funeral just five years ago?
COLIN ARMSTRONG Belfast.

DOUBLE STANDARDS: I was sickened beyond words by the terrifying bloody scenes of terrible carnage in Omagh.
What also sickened me was the multitude of mealy mouthed politicians whose only real concern was in case their highly-paid Assembly, namely their damned so called peace process, might be upset by this dastardly trap.
They all hide behind the big lie that this is the work of a supposed breakaway Republican group.
Perhaps the Americans will lend the UK the electric chairs or gas chambers they have reserved for the Embassy bombers or else explain the difference in their attitude to black African terrorists and white Irish ones guilty of exactly similar crimes.
But then our government, backed by the US, believes that releasing bombers from prison early with cash in their pocket is a better way to deal with such terrorists.
BILL POWER