This also would explain the comments made by the French Interior Minister Nicolas Sakorzy, after an EU meeting to discuss a response to the bombing. He said that part of the bombers team had been subject to partial arrest in Spring 2004.

"Ever since the bombings, police have given the impression that the attackers were what Mr. Clarke today referred to as "foot soldiers" whose very anonymity made it easier for them to slip through the net of the security services.

But, after a meeting of European Union interior ministers in Brussels, Nicholas Sarkozy, the French interior ministry, said: "It seems that part of this team had been subject to partial arrest" in the spring of 2004.

Mr. Clarke denied that. "I did not have any conversation with Mr. Sarkozy about it and I simply don't know where he could have got that from to make these remarks," he said. Mr. Sarkozy's aides scrambled later to say the French official had been referring to arrests among the broader Islamic movement, not the London bombers.

But the dispute seemed to underscore the differences, rivalries and communication glitches between European nations that hamper cooperation among them.
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