Calls grow for 7/7 inquiry after photos fiasco

Published on Wednesday 2 May 2007 12:28

CALLS for a full independent inquiry into the 7/7 London bombings increased today when it emerged that a senior committee of MPs were never shown photographs linking one of the bombers to known militants.

The Intelligence and Security Committee of the Westminster Parliament reopened its inquiry into the 2005 atrocity yesterday following the conviction of the five fertiliser bombers for planning a series of unsuccessful attacks across Britain.

During their trial it emerged that the five knew two of the 7/7 suicide bombers but this link was dismissed as peripheral by MI5 and the police.

Prime Minister Tony Blair and Home Secretary John Reid refused an independent inquiry into 7/7 at the time and yesterday. But now it has emerged that the ISC - made up of senior MPs and peers picked by Downing Street - never saw any of the pictures of Mohammad Sidique Khan with the fertiliser gang.

Tory Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said: "We must have an inquiry which allows us to know what the facts are and not feel, as we might do today, that we have been misled."