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Investigations into the 7 and 21 July events continue, and therefore some information remains sub judice . As a result, and on the advice of the Law Officers in consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service, not all of the detail of which we are aware has been included.
Comment: Mixing the 21/7 7/7 investigations has served to hinder the release of 7/7 related information as it is claimed the evidence could be relevant to 21/7.
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Mohammed Siddeque Khan (30), Hasib Hussein (18), Shazad Tanweer (22), and Jermaine Lindsay
Comment: It would appear from the spelling used that the document was produced a long time ago. It is certainly odd that the men's names can't even be spelt correctly by the 'Intelligence and Security Committee'.
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Post-incident forensic analysis has shown that the explosions were caused by home-made organic peroxide-based devices,
Comment: This contradicts many expert opinions which suggest high grade explosives such as C4 or dynamite were used. see here
The devices were almost certainly detonated manually by the bombers themselves in intentional suicide attacks.
Comment: As is clear from the police language, it can not be said with absolute certainty that the four men were suicide bombers. see here
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Siddeque Khan is now known to have visited Pakistan in 2003 and to have spent several months there with Shazad Tanweer between November 2004 and February 2005. It has not yet been established who they met in Pakistan , but it is assessed as likely that they had some contact with Al Qaida figures.
Comment: 'Assessed as likely' - in other words no evidence but they think this may have happened.
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There was (and still is) no evidence that they were connected to planning terrorist acts.
Comment: No evidence of them planning the attacks - in other words all the police had was convenient forensics to recover which led them to BELIEVE the four men carried out the attacks.
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Intelligence at the time suggested that their focus was training and insurgency operations in Pakistan and schemes to defraud financial institutions.
Comments: What intelligence?
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In the aftermath of the 7 July attacks, Siddeque Khan was identified by one of the detainees (having seen a press photograph) as one of the men referred to in the detainee reporting.
Comment: This is coming from a detainee who has more than likely been subjected to torture and persuasion. In other words one prisoner saying after 7/7 that he recognised Khan from being involved with other terrorists is not reliable evidence of anything.
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This report was passed to the Security Service in February 2005. It stated that a man named '***' had travelled to Afghanistan in the late 1990s/early 2000s with another man named 'Imran' and that both held extremist views. The Security Service and police undertook some further investigation into the two men at the time, without significant result. After the 7 July attacks the source identified '***' as Siddeque Khan.
Comment: All the evidence of Khan's pursuit of terrorism abroad is based on undisclosed and highly contentious sources.