Date: July 9, 2005 4:54:50 PM PDT
Subject: [Spy News] Intelligence failure is ruled out
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Intelligence failure is ruled out
Vol XXVIII NO. 111
Saturday 9th July 2005
LONDON: British Home Secretary Charles Clarke admitted yesterday that the
London bomb attacks that killed more than 50 people "came out of the blue"
and insisted that they did not represent a failure by intelligence services.
"As far as the general threat assessment was concerned, we didn't have prior
knowledge of this attack," he said, after questions were raised about the
alertness status of the security services.
"We obviously are looking very carefully at all our intelligence to see if
anything was missed, but in fact we don't believe anything was missed. It
just came out of the blue," Clarke told Sky News television.
British newspapers focused on the status of the security services, and
highlighted a recent decision to downgrade the terror threat level to its
lowest point since the September 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
"The timing of Thursday's seemingly co-ordinated attacks on the capital's
transport system appears to have exploited a weak link in the chain of
intelligence and a fatal lapse in security," the Financial Times said.
Clarke said the alert status system would be re-examined, but he denied
claims that London's security had been compromised because police officers
were deployed to Scotland for the G8 summit.
"Obviously it was wrong. We have looked very carefully at the threat we are
now under, particularly in the light of events yesterday, and the threat
level will be increased," he said.
"We will reinforce all our efforts to minimise the chances of any other
terrorist attack being successful."
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