Politicians and victims have criticised the British government's decision not to hold a public inquiry into the July 7th terrorist bomb attacks in London.
The country's Home Office confirmed last night that there would be no public inquiry into the attacks on London's transport network. A spokesman said: "The government is not proposing to hold a public inquiry into the events of July 7th."
Home Secretary Charles Clarke was instead looking at what evidence could be made available to parliamentary investigations into the suicide bombings. The confirmation followed a BBC report that Mr Clarke would publish a detailed "narrative of events", written by a senior civil servant and including information from police and intelligence reports, instead.
Saba Mozakka, whose mother Behnaz lost her life when a bomb ripped through a Piccadilly Line Tube train near King's Cross station, said it was "unacceptable" not to hold a public inquiry.
"This is not acceptable to us and the families will be campaigning for there to be a full public inquiry," she said. "A narrative of events will not satisfy anybody. This is not something we will go away on."
The 24-year-old added: "I heard cost is being cited as being one of the reasons for not holding a public inquiry, and that's ridiculous."
Sir Iqbal Sacranie of the Muslim Council of Britain also repeated his demands for a full inquiry. "It has to be a fully comprehensive public inquiry that will provide us the information we need as to what actually happened, how it happened and why it happened so that we will be better prepared to prevent such tragedy happening again," he told the BBC's News at Ten.
Shadow homeland affairs minister Patrick Mercer told the programme: "I don't think a straight narrative is exactly what we want.
"We need to know what the links were with the various different individuals, whether they had links abroad.
"And also why the Government reduced the level of warning a mere five weeks before the attack."
"In addition, it should examine any links between the perpetrators of the July 7th attack and the perpetrators of the attempted attack on July 21st."
MI5 is understood to have compiled a detailed picture of the influences thought to have been exerted on the bombers, and their motivations. The security services have also tracked the group's overseas travel in minute detail, particularly their trips to Pakistan between 2003 and the bombings in July this year.
The Home Secretary is understood to have consulted Scotland Yard on the implications of issuing the file to the public, possibly in an edited form.
Any report published by the Home Office would be the first official overview of the atrocities, which killed 52 innocent people on Tubes at Aldgate, Edgware Road and Russell Square, and on a bus at Tavistock Square.
Whitehall sources said that although the July 7th bombings were still under investigation, the security service had already built up a "very good picture" of the circumstances around bombers Shehzad Tanweer, Hasib Hussain, Mohammad Siddique Khan and Jermaine Lindsay.
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