I guess they won't be needing to arrest him, then, will they?Police fired at and killed a suspected suicide bomber at a London underground train station, less than 24 hours after the city was hit by a second wave of terror attacks in two weeks.[...]
Whitby was "sitting on the train reading paper... I heard a load of noise, people saying, 'Get out, get down'! I saw an Asian guy run onto the train hotly pursued by three plain-clothes police officers. One of them was carrying a black handgun - it looked like an automatic - they pushed him to the floor, bundled on top of him and unloaded five shots into him."
Armed police have also surrounded East London Mosque, on Whitechapel Road in Aldgate, and told residents to stay indoors, after there were reports of a bomb threat.[...]
On Tuesday, another statement was issued in the name of the same group threatening to launch "a bloody war" on the capitals of European countries that do not remove their troops from Iraq within a month.
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"We will strike in the hearts of European capitals, in Rome, in Amsterdam and in Denmark where their soldiers are in still in Iraq pursuing their British and American masters," the statement added.
POLICE in New York have begun random searches of bags, backpacks and packages carried by passengers on the city's subway system following the second terrorist attack this month on London's public transport network.
New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the searches would take place 24 hours a day and continue indefinitely [...]
Well, of course they did. And we didn't even have to have those train bombings on our soil to get the job done.The House, overriding fears that Americans' freedoms are being restricted, voted to make permanent provisions of the Patriot Act that gave authorities more investigative power in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Update 7/23:
Thank God for those handy identification papers that the terrorists always seem to leave behind.It is understood that [the slain man] was found not to have been carrying a bomb.[...]
The suspect, described as being of Asian appearance and wearing a thick, bulky jacket, vaulted over a ticket barrier when challenged by police and ran down the escalator and along the platform of the Northern Line.
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Police are describing him as an “intimate accomplice of the cell”. His name and address were thought to have been found among the possessions left by the would-be bombers on Thursday.
Whoopsie, further update 2:00pm:
Gee, too bad they didn't arrest him after five policemen wrestled him to the ground, huh? Pumping five bullets into his head while they held him seemed to be a good thing at the time.Police admitted on Saturday they had shot dead the wrong man as they hunted for four men wanted for failed bomb attacks on London's transport system.
Jeezus.
Previous posts on the attacks.
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