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MI5 `kende vooraf van perceel'
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Door Philip Johnston
Internet zoemde gisteren met eisen dat MI5 vroegere intelligentie op de de bomautoaanval van Londen had.
De suggestie werd van brandstof voorzien door het feit dat nightclubs een paar weken geleden door politie werden gewaarschuwd dat zij potentiële doelstellingen voor autobommenwerpers waren.
Een raadsboekje voor staven, pubs en nightclubs werd uitgevaardigd door de veiligheidsdiensten en omvatte een sectie over „voertuig gedragen geïmproviseerdea explosieve apparaten“.
Maar een bron van Whitehall zei dat de distributie van het boekje aan clubs enkel een paar weken geleden en „zuiver samenvallend“ werd lang-gepland.
MI5 said it had no advance intelligence of the Haymarket bombs, though the threat level had been at ‘’severe”.
However, MI5 may have been monitoring those involved in a cell at some stage - which, if true, could provoke claims that they were allowed to slip through the net.
A number of proven and alleged terrorist plots have emerged in the UK since the Twin Towers attacks in September 2001:
Dec 2001: Richard Reid, a British-born convert to Islam, tries to blow up an airliner, bound from Paris to Miami, with a shoe bomb. Reid is in prison in the US.
Saajid Badat, another Briton, is jailed for 13 years for plotting to become a shoe bomber, but pulled out.
Jan 2003: Anti-terrorist police find a poison factory in a flat in Wood Green, north London. Days later, a raid on a flat in Manchester ends in the murder of a Stephen Oake, a special branch officer.
March 2004: British-born extremists of Pakistani background are arrested in the “fertiliser plot” case. They have more than half a ton of ammonium nitrate fertiliser, a basic ingredient of home-made explosives, in a self-storage depot in Hanwell, west London.
July 2005: Four British men blow themselves up on three Tube trains and a bus in central London, killing 52 passengers.
Two of them - Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer - had trained as terrorists in Pakistan.
July 2007: A jury is deciding the fate of a number of men accused of trying to repeat the carnage of July 7, 2005 on July 21, 2005.
In a separate case, a number of people are accused of plotting to blow up jets.
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