1 May 2007
MI5 are doing an “amazing job” Tony Blair insisted today as he rejected calls for a public inquiry into their handling of the two of the July 7 bombers.
The PM said he understood why relatives of the dead and injured from the 7/7 attacks were calling for such an inquiry.
But the move would divert security services from their “very, very tough and difficult job”, he told GMTV.
“The problem if you have an independent public inquiry into something like this is you will divert all their energy and attention into trying to answer the questions that come up in the inquiry.
“Everyone looks back on it with hindsight and says ‘this or that might or could have happened’ and in the end you take them away from the job they have got to be doing, and are doing every single day of the week, which is protecting us.”
His comments came a day after it was revealed that MI5 had come across 7 July bombers Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer while investigating another group of plotters.
The second group of terrorists were convicted at the Old Bailey yesterday of planning an attack using a huge fertiliser bomb.
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