Call for public inquiry into 7/7 from former head of counter-terrorism

[JohnyCanuck]

An independent public inquiry should be held into how suicide terrorists were able to carry out the July 7 bombings, Scotland Yard’s former head of counter-terrorism says.

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Almost four years after Mohammad Sidique Khan and his Leeds-based cell carried out the bombings, Mr Hayman says that he is “uncomfortable” with the official position that an inquiry would divert resources from the fight against terrorism. In his book, The Terrorist Hunters, extracts from which are published in The Times today, Mr Hayman says: “Incidents of less gravity have attracted the status of a public inquiry — train crashes, a death in custody, and even other terrorist attacks. How can there not be a full, independent public inquiry into the deaths of 52 commuters on London’s transport system?

“There has been no overview, no pulling together of each strand of review, no one can be sure if key issues have been missed.”

Survivors of the July 7 bombings and families of the victims are taking High Court action over the refusal to grant them an independent inquiry.

The key issue for any inquiry would be why Khan, 30, who had been photographed, followed and bugged by surveillance officers because of his links with known terrorists, was left free to carry out the attacks.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6539369.ece

These were the terror attacks which suddenly turned "live" while a private security company working for an as yet unrevealed employer was running an exercise or drill in which real attacks occurred at the same locations and times as they were simulating in the drill.

Just search on the phrase "7/7 terror drill" for more information on that aspect of it.

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