A British link to the suicide terrorist attacks in the US may have been missed because of a lack of ...
A British link to the suicide terrorist attacks in the US may have been missed because of a lack of co-ordination between law enforcement agencies, a senior security official signalled on Wednesday night, according to the FT. David Veness, head of Scotland Yard's Specialist Operations, said police and MI5, the security service, had been unable to establish whether some of the suicide hijackers had simply been in transit or lived in Britain while preparing their attacks. He said the uncertainty arose because computerised information about terrorist suspects was not held at British air...
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