Posted on 07/09/2005 2:28:24 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
A New Zealander working for Reuters in London says two colleagues witnessed the unconfirmed shooting by police of two apparent suicide bombers outside the HSBC tower at Canary Wharf in London.
The New Zealander, who did not want to be named, said the killing of the two men wearing bombs happened at 10.30am on Thursday (London time).
Following the shooting, the 8000 workers in the 44-storey tower were told to stay away from windows and remain in the building for at least six hours, the New Zealand man said.
He was not prepared to give the names of his two English colleagues, who he said witnessed the shooting from a building across the road from the tower.
Reports of attacks carried out by suicide bombers have been rife in London.
Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper reported an unconfirmed incident of police shooting a bomber outside the HSBC tower.
Canadian Brendan Spinks, who works on the 18th floor of the tower, said he saw a "massive rush of policemen" outside the building after London was rocked by the bombings.
That was before they started to carry carry guns.
Has the ACLU sued the cops yet? Be patient a little, give em time.
A lot of them are. A decade ago I purchased a couple of dozen of nice Smith & Wesson model 10s that had been issued to the London police. They had British proof marks and a fair amount of holster wear, but shot very well. The importer that I got them from said that he was able to obtain them because the London police were converting to Glocks (9mm semi-autos).
In London!
The fact that this incident was "leaked" and "reported" like it was, leaves me to believe that we obviously do not have, and will never have, the "full" scope of what happened...
Somebody, somewhere, will ask more about this, and by that time someone else will have cooked up a plausible senario and explanation, and that'll be that...
Remember control and distribution of the dis-information is key...For some reason they feel its important to be able to do this whenever they can...
Me??? I'm just a junior level conspiracy theorist...
So the head terrorjerks are left wondering if these two are really dead. . . or squealing like a pig?
That would be an unexpected bonus for our side I suppose...
I officially call BuIIS**t.
Dan Rather stories are better sourced this this NZ report.
This just blows my mind. The average Texas homeowner is probably better equipped to handle an armed burgler than a policeman in London.
They might, if the government insisted. I trust the truth will come out somehow.
I have a 10-kilometre walk home from here and I'm not sure how safe I will be when I get there. The radio is saying they shot dead a suicide bomber at Canary Wharf and that's right opposite my apartment across the river (Thames).
From the Ottawa Citizen, July 8th. It was an interview with James Starnes, a sound engineer from Ottawa, living in London.
This happened in London. No New Zealander shot anybody.
If I see an a young Arab male with a white undershirt showing who smells like frankincense and who raises his hands and starts to say something like "Allah....". That's as far as he will get before I bust a cap. You see, in Texas, we are legally packin'. I say we start polygraphing every muslim that we even vaguely suspect and if they are sympathetic to terrorists, we deport them. Better yet, we EXPAND GITMO!
If you were a cop and you could shoot a suicide bomber who was threatening an over 42 floor HSBC tower, I think you would shoot to kill.
Additionally the cop may have been assigned to protect the building for all we know.
Sure wouldn't like being told to stay in a building.
Imagine being the person being told to do this.
As poster redlady said the remain in the building part should be easy to confirm, 8,000 or so witnesses.
Presumably, there were lots of people in various parts of London being told to stay put that AM. Not unusual, given everything else happening at the time.
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