The findings of the judicial inquiry into the London bombings in 2005 will be made public Friday, May 6, or - coincidence - a few days after Washington's announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden. On July 7, 2005, four bombs exploded almost simultaneously in the transport of the British capital, which killed 52 people, plus four suicide bombers, all British.
Two men who blew themselves up had appeared in videos in which contained the number two Al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri. The judicial inquiry, requested by the families of victims, will not render a verdict, but Justice Heather Hallett UK should specify, after six months of hearings, exactly what happened to the victims and make recommendations.
In particular it should decide on the response of emergency services and whether the security services could have prevented the attacks, two suicide bombers being under surveillance since early 2004. Three hundred and nine witnesses were heard in total. Poignant video, shot in the subway shortly after the explosion of bombs were released during this procedure.
Calls forwarded to emergency services and gradually revealing the extent of damage were also analyzed. Some evidence pointed to the slow or poor organization of emergency services. Others have plunged the High Court in London in a poignant silence. Daniel Biddle, one of those injured, lost both his legs, his left eye and his spleen.
Before the judge, he explained in detail how the doctors took away "his keys, and the equivalent of 7 pounds of money" that had embedded in his body. "I still have 20 cents a piece stuck in his thigh," he said. Philip Duckworth, a banker, was so near one of the suicide bomber he was pushed off the train in which he stood.
He lost his left eye, pierced "by fragments of the tibia of the bomber." Some details have also emerged on the four suicide bombers. In his will, one of them, Mohammad Sidique Khan, mastermind of the attacks, has apologized to his wife for having lied, saying act on behalf of Allah. Sidique Khan, as another suicide bomber, Shehzad Tanweer were under surveillance by MI5, the British secret service.
A senior MI5 who testified anonymously before the Supreme Court has assured that despite this monitoring, the two men could not be stopped in time. Families of victims want a thorough investigation solely on intelligence failures. "We did not have the answers we wanted [from MI5]," said Graham Foulkes, whose 22 year old son died in the attacks.
So there is still this feeling that important issues were not asked in this survey deserve answers. " 
Two men who blew themselves up had appeared in videos in which contained the number two Al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri. The judicial inquiry, requested by the families of victims, will not render a verdict, but Justice Heather Hallett UK should specify, after six months of hearings, exactly what happened to the victims and make recommendations.
In particular it should decide on the response of emergency services and whether the security services could have prevented the attacks, two suicide bombers being under surveillance since early 2004. Three hundred and nine witnesses were heard in total. Poignant video, shot in the subway shortly after the explosion of bombs were released during this procedure.
Calls forwarded to emergency services and gradually revealing the extent of damage were also analyzed. Some evidence pointed to the slow or poor organization of emergency services. Others have plunged the High Court in London in a poignant silence. Daniel Biddle, one of those injured, lost both his legs, his left eye and his spleen.
Before the judge, he explained in detail how the doctors took away "his keys, and the equivalent of 7 pounds of money" that had embedded in his body. "I still have 20 cents a piece stuck in his thigh," he said. Philip Duckworth, a banker, was so near one of the suicide bomber he was pushed off the train in which he stood.
He lost his left eye, pierced "by fragments of the tibia of the bomber." Some details have also emerged on the four suicide bombers. In his will, one of them, Mohammad Sidique Khan, mastermind of the attacks, has apologized to his wife for having lied, saying act on behalf of Allah. Sidique Khan, as another suicide bomber, Shehzad Tanweer were under surveillance by MI5, the British secret service.
A senior MI5 who testified anonymously before the Supreme Court has assured that despite this monitoring, the two men could not be stopped in time. Families of victims want a thorough investigation solely on intelligence failures. "We did not have the answers we wanted [from MI5]," said Graham Foulkes, whose 22 year old son died in the attacks.
So there is still this feeling that important issues were not asked in this survey deserve answers. "
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