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Mr Blair did not consider the Cabinet the "safe space" it ought to be for
the frank discussion of key policies, Sir Gus said. And failing to provide
them with the full legal advice coming from the Attorney General on
important decisions was contrary to the ministerial code, he told the
inquiry.
Sir Gus said: "If you reduce the formality you do not have such good
records.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Iraq-Inquiry-Sir-Gus-ODonnell-
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MI5 'could have missed 7/7 clues'
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(Belfast Telegraph) MI5 may have failed to pull together crucial "threads"
which could have revealed the 7/7 ringleader's transformation from an
associate of terrorists to "prime conspirator and murderer", an inquest has
heard.
Mohammed Sidique Khan, 30, was monitored by surveillance officers meeting
known and suspected extremists in the years before he and his three
conspirators unleashed carnage on London's transport network. But despite a
wealth of information including tape recordings and photographs, he was
only identified in the aftermath of the worst single terrorist atrocity
committed on British soil.
As the inquests turned to the question of whether the attacks that day
could have been prevented, Hugo Keith QC suggested greater surveillance may
have led police to recognise Khan, potentially averting the deaths of 52
innocent people.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/mi5-could-havemissed-77-clues-15071631.html#ixzz1CpgoPWgC
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Man goes on trial accused of the undercover soldier’s killing
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(Belfast Telegraph) A 60-year-old man has gone on trial for the murder of
undercover soldier Captain Robert Laurence Nairac in May 1977.
Prosecuting QC Terence Mooney told Belfast Crown Court that after returning
home from the US, Co Armagh man Kevin Crilly allegedly confessed to a BBC
documentary team, under his birth name Declan Power, that he had a
“minimal” involvement in the murder of the Grenadier Guardsman in a Co
Louth field in the Irish Republic.
Mr Mooney also told trial judge Mr Justice McLaughlin that while this was a
case “resonant with echoes of a dark past” it also “illustrates that time
will not absolve the crimes of those charged with grievous offences”.
Crilly, from Lower Foughill Road, Jonesborough, Co Armagh, denies the
murder of Captain Nairac between May 13 and 16, 1977, and “associated
charges” which will be detailed to the court later, but involving the
abduction and holding of the soldier.
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