Ahhh...
Sunday Times said:
MI5 is being accused of a cover-up for failing to disclose to a parliamentary watchdog that it bugged the leader of the July 7 suicide bombers discussing the building of a bomb months before the London attacks.
MI5 had secret tape recordings of Mohammad Sidique Khan, the gang leader, talking about how to build the device and then leave the country because there would be a lot of police activity.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2179602,00.html
With quote from BK. I'd have put another "if" in there, BK... and expect them to take it out
No source information at all. Neither the
Observer nor the
Telegraph have picked it up that I've been able to find - and nor would I, given the lack of source. Which suggests it's
either a genuine leak from a "security source" to the
Times or a monumental cock-up by the
Times.
In governmental terms, such a leak actually serves Five's interests - "Money! Money! If only you'd given us more money!" - though that doesn't rule out it being a policing source pissed off with the 2.2-at-Oxbridge boys' arrogance. Or one of the First-at-Oxbridge Six boys annoying the plebs at Five for the hell of it.
Prediction: loada conspiraloons do 180° turn and start arguing that the Leeds lads
did do it - encouraged by Five.
Hope: conspiraloons start arguing among themselves and stop pestering the sane.
What actually happened
if this is true: totally routine bureaucratic fuckup. Not even as strong as a fuckup. Knowing
in hindsight the position of the iceberg, the ship didn't need to sink... which does not mean the captain conspired with the iceberg, 'cos he didn't have hindsight ffs.
E2A: for those that don't read the Times story - the alleged conversation, /b]if[/b] real, referred to a
different bomb plot.