7/7 bombing victims seek answers in Parliament

Victims of the 7/7 London bombings have submitted more than 60 key questions to Parliament in a fresh bid to establish the full facts about the attacks.

The questions were handed to the Intelligence and Security Committee, which is conducting a new inquiry into what was known about the 2005 bombers, at an unprecedented meeting.

They follow revelations last year during the trial of terrorists who plotted to blow up the Bluewater shopping centre and London nightclubs that there were links between them and two of the 7/7 Tube and bus bombers, including ringleader Mohammad Sidique Khan. The requests for information include:

Full details of the surveillance of Omar Khyam, ringleader of the Bluewater plotters, when he met Khan in Crawley in 2004.

Why did the links between Khyam, Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, another of the London bombers, not lead to further efforts to establish the identity of the two future 7/7 attackers?

When were the names of Khan and Tanweer first recorded in official documents?

Why did the Home Office describe the bombers as "clean skins"?

The Government, MI5 and police continue to insist that the full facts about what was known about the bombers have already been disclosed.

Meanwhile MI5 is to open more regional offices in the wake of 7/7. An expansion to towns in the Midlands and North comes with a big increase in manpower to monitor extremists.