Foreign policy drove 7/7 attacks, says ex-terror chief

The 7/7 terror attacks were in part driven by Britain’s foreign policy under Sir Tony Blair, a former national head of counterterrorism has claimed ahead of the 20th anniversary of the bombings.

- ARCHIE MITCHELL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

On 7 July 2005, four suicide bombers targeted the capital, killing 52 people and injuring more than 770 on three London Underground trains and a bus.

Confusion, panic and then terror gripped the capital, as survivors emerged from Tube stations, some with lost limbs, others supporting their fellow travellers who were caked in dust.

Terror group al-Qaeda later claimed responsibility, and in the subsequent hunt for suspects, police shot dead an innocent man, Jean Charles de Menezes, at a Tube station.

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