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# MI5 officers to give evidence to 7/7 inquiry
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## MI5 officers could be called to answer questions in public as part of the
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inquests into the deaths of 52 people in the terrorist bomb attacks on July 7
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2005 which finally gets under way today.
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[Link to this video][1]
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[![Duncan Gardham][2]][3]
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By [Duncan Gardham][4], Security Correspondent 6:10AM BST 11 Oct 2010
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More than [**five years after the attacks**][5], bereaved families will have
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the chance to ask questions from the police and emergency services about
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whether their loved ones could have been saved.
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Lady Justice Hallett has ruled that the scope of the inquests should also
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include the sensitive issue of whether the attacks could have been prevented,
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which could involve calling officers from MI5 to explain their decisions.
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However, lawyers for the Security Service have argued that any public cross-
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examination of officers would risk the disclosure of sensitive information and
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the issue remains unresolved as the five-month inquest begins.
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Some victims' families say that MI5 should have prioritised an investigation
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into ring-leaders Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer after they
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appeared in a surveillance operation as part of another investigation 17
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months earlier.
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Graham Foulkes, whose 22-year-old son David was killed in the Edgware Road
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bombing, said MI5's attempts to keep details of its investigations secret were
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"really distressing" to the families.
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## Related Articles
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* [The 52 victims of the 7/7 terror attacks][6]
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11 Oct 2010
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* [Key questions for 7/7 terror inquiry][7]
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11 Oct 2010
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* [Timeline of the 7/7 terror attacks][8]
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11 Oct 2010
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* [July 7 inquests could become public inquiry to hide MI5 evidence][9]
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24 Jul 2010
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* [London terror attack victim reveals new face][10]
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07 Jul 2010
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* [July 7 bombings remembered][11]
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07 Jul 2010
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Mr Foulkes said: "By every kind of moral standard that you're brought up with,
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that's wrong. You're told, if you make a mistake, you hold up your hands."
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Lady Hallett, an appeal court judge who has been appointed assistant deputy
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coroner for the purposes of the inquest, has decided to sit without a jury in
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order to give her the scope to consider sensitive intelligence material in
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private.
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She told a preliminary hearing it was "important to bear very much in mind
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fairness to the MI5 and police officers involved" and warned: "I should
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emphasise that I will not allow assertions of gross negligence, dishonesty or
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malpractice to be put to any individual, unless there is some basis for making
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them."
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For other bereaved families the response of the emergency services will be a
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key part of the hearing, after recently discovering that some victims survived
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for up to 40 minutes before help arrived.
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The inquests will also be important for more than 700 people injured in the
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blasts, although the coroner has ruled that they cannot be legally represented
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or ask witnesses questions.
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The hearing will re-open with two days of opening statements, followed by
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evidence on the bombers' journeys to London.
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The inquest will then take evidence on each of the bomb sites at Aldgate,
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Edgware Road, King's Cross and Tavistock Square.
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The emergency response will also be examined and the subject of preventability
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will be the last issue before the inquest is expected to conclude in March
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next year.
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The hearings were delayed by the trials of three men accused of conducting a
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reconnaissance mission for the bombers which ended in their acquittal in April
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last year.
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Successive Home Secretaries have turned down calls for a public inquiry into
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the bombings but there has been an inquiry by the London Assembly into the
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emergency response and two inquiries by the parliamentary Intelligence and
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Security Committee held in private into whether the attacks could have been
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prevented.
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## [Terrorism in the UK][17]
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* ### [News »][18]
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* ### [UK News »][19]
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* ### [Duncan Gardham »][20]
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In news
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[![London Underground train which was bombed at Aldgate tube station on
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Thursday July 7, 2005][21] ][22]
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### [Voices of 7/7: victims recall terror attacks][22]
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[![7/7 inquests in pictures: evidence from the July 7 London bombings
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inquest][23] ][24]
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[![Mohammed Siddique Khan][25] ][26]
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[![James Adams: July 7 inquiry: the 52 victims of the 7/7 terror attacks in
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London][29] ][6]
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