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Halted terror book looked at July 7 hunt

THE publication of a book by a former top counter-terrorism officer has been blocked by the Attorney General.

Baroness Scotland QC stepped in at the last minute to obtain an injunction preventing The Terrorist Hunters from going on the shelves yesterday.

The book, by retired Scotland Yard assistant commission-

er Andy Hayman, focused

on the struggle against Islamic terrorism in the aftermath

of the July 7, attacks by four bombers, three of them from West Yorkshire.

It also looked at the murder of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko and gave a behind-the-scenes glimpse of top-level political and intelligence work.

Further details of the reasons behind the injunction, granted by a High Court judge on Wednesday night, cannot be published for legal reasons linked to continuing criminal proceedings.

Large sections of the Bantam Press 372-page book , co-written by former BBC home affairs correspondent Margaret Gilmore, were also serialised in The Times newspaper.


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