Chances to prevent 7/7 attacks were missed
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Police and the MI5 spy agency likely missed chances to identify the key men behind the 2005 London bombings, but could have done little more to halt the attacks given their limited resources, lawmakers said today. Lawmakers said that to properly cover the current threat, MI5 would need "several hundred thousand officers as opposed to their current 3,500." The report lists numerous occasions when London bombings ringleader Mohammed Siddique Khan was watched by surveillance teams, including a previously unknown occasion at a 2001 training camp in Britain.
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