Tell us the truth about those 7/7 blunders
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnist...
The mayhem aimed at innocent shoppers and nightclubbers by Omar Khyam, Jawad Akbar, Salahuddin Amin, Waheed Mahmood and Anthony Garcia is alarming enough. But even more disturbing is the light that this terror case sheds on the operations of the security service in the months and years before the London suicide bombings on the July 7, 2005.
The day before those bombings, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, the head of MI5, told government whips that there was no specific threat on the horizon. Shortly before this, the terror level had been reduced from severe to substantial. That was despite July 7 being the first day of Abu Hamza’s trial and, therefore, a high-risk date. After the bombing, the public were told by the Home Secretary that the attacks came “out of the blueâ€. The security agencies briefed the press that the suicide bombers were “clean skinsâ€, agency parlance for people not previously known to them.