
7/7: What Did They Know?
On July 7, 2005, four bombers killed 52 people on London's transport network, and officials insisted the attack came without warning. This film from WideShut.co.uk works through newspaper reports, inquest testimony, and evidence given at the official inquest to argue otherwise, laying out warnings about Underground security that had circulated for years and pointing to intelligence files that already named two of the alleged bombers before the attack. It traces a semi-secret policy through the 1990s that let extremist networks operate in Britain and send men to training camps in Pakistan, tied to the government's approach to the Balkans under Tony Blair, and raises the possibility that figures around the bombers had prior contact with British or allied intelligence services. The inquest itself becomes part of the story, with its narrow scope cited as the reason bereaved families kept pushing for a fuller independent inquiry. The film stays with documents and testimony rather than dramatization, building its case from what the official record does and does not explain.