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For this specific situation, yes I agree. However this creates a situation where the security services can only ever be reactive rather than proactive, at least where communication is concerned - normally by the time you have the terrorist's phone, it's too late for a number of innocent people...

Ah, good point. So to my above point, it is a reasonable assumption that it is of critical importance that the security services find out who he was contacting 3 minutes prior to his attack. Their fear being that it may be another radical plotting a similar, potentially imminent, attack. With...

The BBC report he was last seen online on WhatsApp at 14:37, with the attack commencing at 14:40. They don't know what he said, because of the encryption, hence this thread being started. Of course an extreme example, but the point seems to be: what if he sent a message to a fellow conspirator...