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UK warned about 7/7 bomber
19/06/2006 10:02 - (SA)
London - The United States Central Intelligence Agency warned the British government in 2003 about one of the suicide bombers who launched attacks in London two years later. This was by according to a new book by a US intelligence specialist.
According to author Ron Suskind, the CIA warned that Mohammed Sidique Khan, the oldest of the four London bombers, was that year planning attacks on synagogues on the east coast of the US.
The four co-ordinated attacks on the London transport system on July 07 2005 left 56 people dead and 700 others injured.
The bomb, which Khan detonated, killed seven people including himself.
Khan banned from flying to US
Investigators believed the 30-year-old teacher was the leader of the young Islamic bombers, three of whom were of Pakistani origin, the other Jamaican.
A British intelligence official said the claims were untrue and "one of the many myths that have grown up around Khan". The claims came in Suskind's book, The One Percent Doctrine.
Suskind said: "British intelligence have certainly been told about Khan in March and April 2003", insisting that the dossier sent to London was "a very detailed file".
According to the book, Khan was banned from flying to America two years before the attack in London.
Suskind also claimed that Dan Coleman, who led the FBIs investigation into al-Qaeda, had read detailed files of Khans many telephone calls and e-mails, beginning in 2002, to a number of US based al-Qaeda-trained militants living in New York and Virginia.
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