The man believed to be the ringleader of the four London suicide bombers had extensive contacts with al-Qa’eda extremists and should have been intercepted by MI5, the BBC claimed last night.

A report said that a succession of intelligence failures had allowed Mohammad Sidique Khan, who detonated a device on a train at Edgware Road station on July 7, to “slip away” after briefly coming under scrutiny.

Khan, 30, from Dewsbury, West Yorks, was subject to a routine assessment by the security service because of an indirect connection to a suspect in an alleged terror plot in 2004.

The BBC claimed that he was secretly filmed and recorded speaking to the suspect. Khan was one of hundreds investigated but who was not judged a risk to warrant further surveillance.
telegraph.co.uk

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