Spies Warned of Tube Attack (timesonline.uk)

[katty]

cont'd at:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C2087-1938212%2C00.html

The Sunday Times - Britain
The Sunday Times December 18, 2005

Spies warned of Tube attack
David Leppard


SPYMASTERS warned Tony Blair before the July 7 suicide bombings that Al-Qaeda was planning a “high priority” attack specifically aimed at the London Tube.


A leaked four-page report by the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), which oversees all spying, is the first definitive evidence that the intelligence services expected terrorists to strike at the Underground.

The disclosure will fuel critics’ suspicions that Blair decided to rule out a public inquiry into the bombings last week because it could expose intelligence failings at the highest level.

The document, marked Top Secret and signed off by the heads of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, the government eavesdropping centre, was based partly on the interrogation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Al-Qaeda’s then operations chief.

[orwell]

1. LIHOP...

...takes a London Holiday!

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. This isn't exactly surprising

April 2003: "Plans have been considered to attack Heathrow, the London Underground and other targets"

Yeah: pretty much everyone pointed out the Tube was an easy target. 2 and a bit years later, someone got round to it. I'd have been amazed if the government hadn't already realised it.