Another bombing in London


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Police chief: 'Very serious incident' in London
Four explosions or attempted explosions confirmed at subway stations, bus

BREAKING NEWS
MSNBC News Services
Updated: 10:38 a.m. ET July 21, 2005

LONDON - Explosions struck three London Underground stations and a bus at midday Thursday in a chilling but less deadly replay of the suicide bombings that killed 56 people two weeks ago.

Only one person was reported wounded, but the explosions during the lunch hour caused major disruption in the city and were hauntingly similar to the July 7 bombings by four attackers.

The London police commissioner confirmed Thursday that four explosions took place in what he described as ?serious incidents.?

?We?ve had four explosions ? four attempts at explosions,? Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair said outside police headquarters at Scotland Yard.

?At the moment the casualty numbers appear to be very low ... the bombs appear to be smaller? than the July 7 blasts.

Meantime, police were searching a London hospital Thursday for a man wearing a blue shirt with wires protruding from a hole in the back, a TV report said.

An internal memo at University College Hospital in north London urged staff to watch for the man, described as a black or Asian male, about 6-feet-2, Sky News television reported.

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?He said that a man was carrying a rucksack and the rucksack suddenly exploded. It was a minor explosion but enough to blow open the rucksack,? McCracken said.

?The man then made an exclamation as if something had gone wrong. At that point everyone rushed from the carriage.?
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This will never end as long as there is an IRA (Irish Republican Army) agent alive....I hate to say it but this is not the Arabs wrapped up in this one.
 
Re: Reasons for bombing in London

Based on this article, there could be more to come.....
Among the Young Of Multiethnic Leeds, A Hardening Hatred

By Tamara Jones
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 20, 2005; Page A14

LEEDS, England -- By the time the mob was finished with Tyrone Clarke, all that was left of the 16-year-old was what his own mother later described to reporters as "just a bloody pulp."

About 30 boys and young men had chased him down, beating him with cricket bats and metal scaffolding poles before he was stabbed three times in the heart on April 22, 2004, in a tough neighborhood of south Leeds known as Beeston.

Four youths were convicted of Clarke's murder this year, drawing prison sentences ranging from nine to 12 years. That Clarke was black and the mob was Pakistani did not, the presiding judge ruled, make it a racial killing. More complex factors including drugs and gang rivalries were at play, investigators decided.

Today, with police cordoning off the downtrodden blocks where three young suspects in London's suicide bombings lived, people here are searching for answers to the same troubling question: What feeds the murderous rage that ticks quietly in some hearts here?

A multiethnic enclave in one of England's largest cities, Beeston has long had racial tension on a slow boil, but police and community activists now fear that the resentment and wariness common among the immigrant generation can harden into hatred and violence in their British-born children.

At the Leeds Racial Harassment Project, director Shakeel Meer said: "They've developed their own very different culture within Islam, and they're not totally Pakistani or totally Islamic, and they're not totally British, either. These kids face quite an identity crisis. They're fighting to assert themselves not on one or two fronts, but in three or four different directions."

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London police shoot man dead day after blasts

London police shoot man dead day after blasts
Suspect killed in subway chase as investigators probe coordinated attacks

NBC News and news services
Updated: 7:14 a.m. ET July 22, 2005

LONDON - Police shot and killed a man at a London subway station on Friday, a day after the city was hit by a second wave of terror attacks in two weeks.

Metropolitan Police confirmed that a man had died after being shot by armed officers at the Stockwell subway station in south London. A witness said police pursued a man into a subway car, and an officer shot the suspect five times.

Elsewhere, eyewitnesses reported that police had cordoned off a mosque in east London. Police had no immediate details. But a Muslim leader said it was evacuated following a bomb threat.

British Transport Police said the Northern and Victoria Tube lines, which pass through Stockwell, were suspended because of shooting.

Passengers said they saw police pursuing a man who appeared to be of Pakistani or Indian descent. Some said police shot him when he tripped. But one witness told the British Broadcasting Corp. that police "pushed him onto the floor and unloaded five shots into him."

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Now they're shooting people of Indian descent running in subways. This is about to get real wild!
 
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Did anyone read where they shot the wrong man and now is issuing out an apology?
 
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Blacknbengal said:
Did anyone read where they shot the wrong man and now is issuing out an apology?
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I was afraid something like that would happen because they were getting trigger happy. :shame: :shame: :shame:
 
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Jam Piper Jam said:
I was afraid something like that would happen because they were getting trigger happy. :shame: :shame: :shame:
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U.K. probe connects two sets of bombings
July 7, July 21 bombers may have been on same rafting trip, official says


Mourners in south London stand together for two minutes of silence in memory of Brazillian Jean Charles de Menezes on Sunday. De Menezes was shot in the subway by officers who mistook him for a terrorism suspect.

Updated: 6:54 a.m. ET July 25, 2005

LONDON - Investigators hunting four fugitives wanted for the abortive bombing of the city's transit system last week have linked them to the four presumed suicide bombers who killed 52 bystanders and wounded 700 others two weeks earlier, a British official said Sunday.

Meanwhile, the country's highest-ranking police officer made a public apology for the killing of a Brazilian man at a subway station Friday by plainclothes officers who mistook him for a suspected terrorist.

Many of the Brazilian's relatives and friends rejected the official explanation for the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. The 27-year-old electrician was on his way to a job when he was chased into a subway car by undercover policemen, one of whom shot him in the head five times in front of horrified passengers.

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The 27-year-old electrician was on his way to a job when he was chased into a subway car by undercover policemen, one of whom shot him in the head five times in front of horrified passengers.
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Blacknbengal said:
Did anyone read where they shot the wrong man and now is issuing out an apology?
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Yes they shot the wrong guy, but their actions were correct. The guy ran from the cops - did not listen - and if he was an islamist with a bomb - if they dont shoot to kill - a lot of people would have a died. I wish american cops had the balls to do the right thing.

BTW - this guy was no saint.
 
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Olde Hornet said:
Yes they shot the wrong guy, but their actions were correct. The guy ran from the cops - did not listen - and if he was an islamist with a bomb - if they dont shoot to kill - a lot of people would have a died. I wish american cops had the balls to do the right thing.

BTW - this guy was no saint.
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Maybe, he had headsets on or thought they were talking to someone else.....Sometimes people can be so focused that they tune their immediate surrounding out.

The cops are definitely not saints because if they were they would have known they were pursuing the wrong man.
 
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Jam Piper Jam said:
Maybe, he had headsets on or thought they were talking to someone else.....Sometimes people can be so focused that they tune their immediate surrounding out.

The cops are definitely not saints because if they were they would have known they were pursuing the wrong man.
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I am not claiming the cops are saints - they told him to stop - he ran - he did not have head sets on. He was a known criminal - thats why he ran. Are you saying that if a terrorist has a head set on the cops should not kill him, but allow him to blow things up?
 
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Olde Hornet said:
I am not claiming the cops are saints - they told him to stop - he ran - he did not have head sets on. He was a known criminal - thats why he ran. Are you saying that if a terrorist has a head set on the cops should not kill him, but allow him to blow things up?
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I'm saying if you are about to take the life of a person regardless of whether they are a monk of a known criminal, make sure it is the right person.
 



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Olde Hornet said:
I am not claiming the cops are saints - they told him to stop - he ran - he did not have head sets on. He was a known criminal - thats why he ran. Are you saying that if a terrorist has a head set on the cops should not kill him, but allow him to blow things up?
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I don't know where you read or heard that he was a known criminal, but here is some insight as to why he ran...

Witnesses said Menezes was wearing a heavy, padded coat when plainclothes police chased him into a subway car, pinned him to the ground and shot him dead.

While Menezes' relatives said he was working legally in Britain and had no reason to fear police, the British Broadcasting Corp. said Menezes' visa had expired, suggesting a reason for why he ran.
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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article301474.ece

He said: "Jean had lived in Sao Paulo. It is a dangerous city and he knew the rules there * if you run away when the police tell you to stop, then you are dead. He knows you don't run away and his English was perfect."

I read his information as soon as it was released. The police did the right thing - He ignored the warning - things happen when you dont listen to the cops.
 
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OH, I dont care what you say. This was wrong and totally wrong.

Jam Piper Jam said:
Witnesses said Menezes was wearing a heavy, padded coat when plainclothes police chased him into a subway car, pinned him to the ground and shot him dead.
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Once they had him pinned down, there was no reason to shot him five (5) times in the head. He was already in a position that he couldn't have done anything to anyone.
 
If the person is a sucide bomber, there is a need to kill him, not wound him, not stun him - KILL HIM - so he can set off the bomb.
 
Olde Hornet said:
If the person is a sucide bomber, there is a need to kill him, not wound him, not stun him - KILL HIM - so he can set off the bomb.
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OH, if he was, do you think they would get close enough to pin him down? They actually pinned the guy down and shot him 5 times in the head. They didn't shoot him from a distance, they actually got close to the guy and pinned him down and then shot him.
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Blacknbengal - I am waiting to read the review report - there has been a lot of stuff reported in the news. If the cops were wrong - I will state so, but lets see what the final reports states. If they told him to halt and he kept going - he brought this on himself.
 
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