Pressure mounting for MI5 inquiry
The MI5 security service had been watching two of the London suicide bombers - ringleader Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer - 15 months before they killed 52 people in London.
In a speech last November, the outgoing head of MI5 Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller provided a pre-emptive defence of her organisation against the criticism she knew was coming.
"I wish life were like (TV Drama) Spooks, where everything is (a) knowable, and (b) soluble by six people," she said. "We are faced by acute and very difficult choices of prioritisation.
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