MI5 had ‘no inkling’ of 7/7 suicide bombings, inquests told
Witness G – chief of staff to director general – says more could have been done to identify bomb plot ringleader Mohammed Siddique Khan, pictured with his daughter in 2004. Khan had links with the ringleader of a failed bomb plot. Photograph: Metropolitan Police/PA Archive A top MI5 officer has told the inquests into the 7 July bombings that every member of the security services had profound regrets about the 2005 attacks, in which 52 people were killed and hundreds injured, but rejected suggestions of any significant intelligence failure. The officer, chief of staff to the director general of MI5 Jonathan Evans but identified in court only as Witness G, told the inquests that MI5 had “no…
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