LONDON - A parliamentary report has cleared Britain's intelligence and security services over the July 7 suicide bombings in London last year, the BBC reported last night.
The report, from the cross-party Intelligence and Security Committee, says they cannot be blamed for not preventing the transport bombings on the London Underground and a bus that killed 52 people and wounded more than 700.
But it questions why one of the bombers, Mohammad Sidique Khan, had not been investigated despite being known to police.
The BBC said the report was also critical of the secretive and complicated system of national threat and alert levels, which fell from "severe, general" to "substantial", just before July 7.
However, the committee, which reports to Prime Minister Tony Blair, doubts the change in security level affected the bombers' plans.
The BBC said Blair was likely to publish the report in a month.
- REUTERS
Authorities cleared over bombings
Tony Blair
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