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MOHAMED Sidique Khan's name featured twice in MI5 anti-terrorist operations more than a year before he went on to lead the 7/7 suicide attacks on London that killed 52 people in 2005.
The full extent of the missed opportunities that allowed the July 7 London bombers to slip through the net can be reported for the first time after the conviction of Omar Khyam, a close associate of Khan, for plotting to build a 600kg ammonium nitrate fertiliser bomb to blow up a crowded nightclub or shopping centre in London.
Far from being a "clean skin", Khan had been photographed, followed and bugged by intelligence officers more than a year before the July 2005 bombings, which ranked as Britain's worst act of mass murder.
Security sources said they had identified a Sidique Khan in 2004 as the owner of a mobile phone called by an alleged al-Qa'ida financier and of a Honda car that was tailed by investigators.
Despite those leads, which placed Khan in the company of high-priority terrorist suspects, he was not investigated further Source