Book: U.S. warned U.K. of July bomber

LONDON, June 19 (UPI) -- A book by a U.S. journalist claims the CIA tipped off British security that London terror bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan was dangerous long before the attack.

In "The One Percent Doctrine," by Pulitzer Prize winning author Ron Suskind, he claims as far back as 2003, the FBI monitored e-mail sent by Khan and tipped off their British counterparts they considered him a threat.

The book says the FBI lacked the resources to monitor Khan, so his name was placed on a "no-fly" list, barring him from entering the United States.

Monday, the book went into serialization in The Times of London, which noted the claims were contradictory of a statement by Eliza Manningham-Buller, the director general of Britain's MI5 intelligence agency.

She told the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee that Khan had never been listed as a terror threat before the July 7, 2005, transit system attack that killed 52 people.

The parliamentary inquiry found Khan and two of the other suicide bombers were known in some form to MI5, but that Khan was regarded only as a peripheral figure.