London Police Shoot, Kill Suspected Suicide Bomber
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James Joyner | Friday, July 22, 2005 |
London’s police force have helped a would-be suicide bomber complete the definitive part of his mission.
Police Shoot Suspected Suicide Bomber (Sky News)
Police have killed a suspected suicide bomber at a Tube station in south London.
Armed officers opened fire up to six times on the suspect as he hurdled a ticket barrier and raced along a platform at Stockwell station.Police screamed at passengers to evacuate and are thought to have shot the suspect as he stumbled on to a train. Alarmed onlookers said they saw up to 10 plain-clothed officers chasing an Asian-looking man before opening fire. Passenger Briony Coetsee said: “We were on the tube and then we suddenly heard someone say ‘get out, get out’ and then we heard gunshots.”
Unconfirmed reports suggest the man was involved in Thursday’s assault on the capital. If the suspect is proved to be a suicide bomber, it would mark the fifth attempted terrorist attack on London in less than a day.
Good result in this case, at least. That there may now be a wave of suicide bombers is worrisome, however.
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Wow, they SHOT him? I'm so surprised!
I figured they would hoist him up on their
shoulders and all convert to Islam. I mean,
he was just expressing his outrage at our
western insensitivity to his culture, right?
Even now the whacko-lefty mayor of London is
blaming everyone but the murderers for the
bombing. It is idiots like him who would
surrender before fighting back.
Tom
It seems the London Police have placed an order for 72 virgins!
While watching the news about the London and Egypt bombings this morning, the thought came to me on where to put the radical Muslims and all of the GITMO prisoners that have been captured since 9/11.
This place is an Island Paradise.
No westerner or "infidel" will ever visit there.
No Country would ever send troops there.
No would ever interfere with their lives there.
No one would would ever tell them how to run their country there.
Where is this place??????
The Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. (The place the US conducted the H Bomb tests.)
Hate to tell you this, Herb, but the Bikini natives have returned there long ago.
Man not connected to bombings.
Correction about Bikini. The A-Bomb tests after the war were conducted there. The H-Bomb tests were conducted at Eniwetok.
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