Showing posts with label MI5 missed implicating 7/7 ringleader despite knowing his terrorist links. Show all posts
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Thursday, 3 February 2011
MI5 missed implicating 7/7 ringleader despite knowing his terrorist links, inquest told
MI5 missed implicating 7/7 ringleader despite knowing his terrorist links, inquest told: "MI5 was unable to identify the ringleader of the July 7, 2005, London bombings, despite having his picture and having seen him associating with other terrorist suspects, the inquest into the attack has heard.
Hugo Keith, counsel to the inquest, said that Mohammad Sidique Khan was spotted by MI5 on the periphery of another terror plot as early as 2003, and was seen with suspected terrorists.
Khan was one of the four suicide bombers
responsible for the terrorist attack, in which bombs were detonated on three London Underground trains and one bus in central London, killing 52 people and injuring over 700.
The 31-year-old had bombed the Edgware Road train in which six people were killed."
Hugo Keith, counsel to the inquest, said that Mohammad Sidique Khan was spotted by MI5 on the periphery of another terror plot as early as 2003, and was seen with suspected terrorists.
Khan was one of the four suicide bombers responsible for the terrorist attack, in which bombs were detonated on three London Underground trains and one bus in central London, killing 52 people and injuring over 700.The 31-year-old had bombed the Edgware Road train in which six people were killed."
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