{"id":2827,"date":"2007-10-29T17:29:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T17:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/10\/29\/uk-ignored-77-bombings-tip-off-says-saudi-king\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T17:22:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T17:22:10","slug":"uk-ignored-77-bombings-tip-off-says-saudi-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/29\/uk-ignored-77-bombings-tip-off-says-saudi-king\/","title":{"rendered":"UK ignored 7\/7 bombings tip-off, says Saudi King"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"276\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/KingAbdullah180x232.jpg\"\/>KING ABDULLAH of Saudi Arabia has claimed Britain ignored a tip-off which may have averted the 2005 London Bombings.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>In a BBC interview, King Abdullah, claimed his country had passed on information which could have stopped the bombings which killed 52 people, but was ignored. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The comments come on the eve of his state visit to the UK &#8211; a visit that has in itself courted controversy. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Speaking through an interpreter he told BBC journalist John Simpson: &#8220;We have sent information to Great Britain before the terrorist attacks in Britain but unfortunately no action was taken. And it may have been able to maybe avert the tragedy.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He also criticised Britain\u2019s record on terrorism saying they needed to do more in the global fight against terrorism. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The official start of his state visit is expected to begin tomorrow when he will meet with the Queen, as well Prime Minister Gordon Brown. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>But one politician who has refused to meet with King Abdullah is acting Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable who announced that he would be boycotting the visit.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Furthermore protests are expected to take place tomorrow outside the Saudi embassy in London in protest at the kingdom&#8217;s human rights record.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KING ABDULLAH of Saudi Arabia has claimed Britain ignored a tip-off which may have averted the 2005 London Bombings. &#13; In a BBC interview, King Abdullah, claimed his country had passed on information which could have stopped the bombings which killed 52 people, but was ignored. &#13; The comments come on the eve of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}