The US government has told families of the victims of the Omagh bombing that it will do what it can to help shut down a website linked to the terror group behind the attack.
Relatives of some of those who died in the Real IRA atrocity spent over an hour in talks today with the US Consul General to Belfast, Dean Pittman.
Michael Gallagher, whose son Aidan was among the 29 who died in the no-warning 1998 bombing, said they were anxious to have the website of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement closed, especially its noticeboard which he described as 'particularly offensive'.
The website service provider is in Canada, but it has a sister company in the US.
'The Consul General said he had already talked to the US embassy in London about the issue and had been asked by London to talk to the families,' said Mr Gallagher.
He added: 'There was nothing he could guarantee us, except that our allegations about the site would be seriously looked at - and if it is possible to do something they will do it.'
The families used the meeting to thank the US administration for its support in the civil action against five men they suspect of plotting the bombing.
The landmark case at the High Court in Belfast will not be heard until after the trial of south Armagh man Sean Hoey, the only man accused of the Omagh bombing.
The trial is expected to open in September.
