'UK failed in stopping militants from visiting Pak'

London, Sep 26: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said he is angered by the failure of British police and intelligence services to stop young British militants from visiting his country before staging their terror attacks.

He claimed that British security services did not tell him until three weeks after the 7/7 bombs that Mohammad Sidique Khan, leader of the suicide bombers, and another of the gang, Shehzad Tanweer, had slipped into Pakistan only months before the attacks.

The information about the two Yorkshire-born bombers and their links with known Pakistani terror suspects was kept a secret by the British Intelligence services.

In a CBS News interview in the US, promoting his memoir ''In the Line of Fire'', General Musharraf revealed, ''It disappoints me, yes.

But at the same time it annoys us also. They are not Pakistani. They are born and bred in Britain and they are British.'' He did not say why the 7/7 bombers, and other convicted British-born terrorists visited Pakistan and also denied that their attacks were planned there.

UNI

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