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ALL four July 7 suicide bombers were tracked by security services a year before they attacked London. But the surveillance operation was ditched after intelligence officers decided there was nothing suspicious about their behaviour, sources said last night. The revelation comes as Tony Blair's plans to create a law against glorifying terrorism were torn apart by rebel MPs.

SUICIDE bomber Mohammed Sidique Khan was trailed by anti-terrorist forces a year before he carried out his murderous mission, it emerged today. The suspected ringleader of the four London suicide bombers, who was living in Thornhill Lees, featured in a surveillance operation carried out by the intelligence services last year. Khan, 30, was secretly filmed and recorded speaking to a UK-based terrorist suspect, who cannot be named for legal reasons, the BBC claimed - attributing the report to a "well placed source". A joint investigation by BBC Radio 4's File on Four programme and BBC2's Newsnight also suggested that Sidique...