Families of the 29 victims of the Omagh bombing have met the Northern Ireland police ombudsman for a briefing on the details of an inquiry into police handling of the atrocity.
Ms Nuala O'Loan has held a private meeting the relatives in a hotel in the Co Tyrone town with the families. She will return to Belfast to publish her report later today.
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The report centres on a warning of an attack given to Special Branch, which they allegedly failed to pass on to local RUC officers.
However Northern Ireland Secretary Dr John Reid, who has read the report, insists it does not prove any information received ahead of the attack could have averted it.
Speaking ahead of the meeting Mr Michael Gallagher, who lost his son in the 1998 bombing, said: "It is going to be difficult listening but I think we have to know the truth." It would be better to get details now than 25 years in the future, he added.
Mr Gallagher said the families would support whatever the report found and urged politicians not to use the issue as ammunition.
"I would appeal to politicians not to join in here and let this be civilised. We have never made Omagh a political football and certainly this is not the time to do it."
Mr Stanley McCombe, who lost his wife in the bombing, said if the report showed up problems with the police handling "we are going to have to have a public inquiry, but let's not prejudge".
The families are due to comment publicly on their reaction to the findings later this afternoon.
Sir Ronnie Flanagan, chief constable of the PSNI, said he was outraged when he was sent a draft of the report and asked for publication to be delayed to allow him to respond to its criticisms. Mrs O'Loan refused his request.
He said the report contained "significant factual inaccuracies, unwarranted assumptions, misunderstandings and material omissions".