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BOMBER 'NOT CONSIDERED DANGEROUS' 09:59 - 17 July 2005 MI5 checked out one of the suicide bombers, but decided he posed no risk, it has been reported. As a result the security service failed to place him under surveillance, according to The Sunday Times. Mohammad Sidique Khan killed himself and six other passengers in the Edgware Road bombing. But the 30-year-old teacher had been subject to a routine threat assessment by MI5 officers when his name cropped up during an investigation last year, the paper says. The Home Office had no immediate comment on the claims. The inquiry focused on an alleged plot to explode a 600lb truck bomb outside a target in London, said to be a Soho nightclub. MI5 is said to have discovered in 2004 that Khan had been visiting a house used by a man who met one of the suspected plotters. However, officers apparently decided that as he was only "indirectly linked", he posed no risk and no action was taken. Only a "quick assessment" was made of Khan, an unnamed government official told The Sunday Times. Like hundreds of others linked to the inquiry, he was judged to be "on the periphery" of the suspect's cell network. "You make quick assessments of them to decide whether or not they were a threat," the official said. "None of the other people were a threat, including Khan." -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
