CAIRO, April 9, 2006 (IslamOnline.net) – Last years 7/7 London bombings, the deadliest terror attack on British soil, were a "simple and inexpensive" plot planned on a shoestring budget from information on the Internet and had no link to Al-Qaeda, Britain's The Observer reported on Sunday, April 9.

"The London attacks were a modest, simple affair by four seemingly normal men, using the Internet," a government source told the weekly newspaper.

Citing leaked findings of a government inquiry, The Observer said the first forensic account of the bombings, which killed 52 people, found it was the product of a small-scale operation by the four men alone.

Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, Hasib Hussain, 18, and Germaine Lindsay, 19, are thought to have blown up three London Underground trains and one double-decker bus during the morning rush hour on July 7 by detonating bombs packed into rucksacks.

The official report, due to be published in the next few weeks, did find that trips to Pakistan by Khan helped to inspire the four bombers.

On Sunday, April 2, The Observer reported that leaked drafts of the government's account into the bombings described the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq as a "contributory factor" to the attacks.