Posted on 07/22/2005 12:29:29 PM PDT by Born Conservative
LONDON — Eyewitnesses to the killing of a suspected bomber in London said the man looked “petrified” as he sought to escape the clutches of police.
Mark Whitby said he was sitting on the Tube at Stockwell Station (search) on Friday when the man ran in to the train car. “As he ran, he was hotly pursued by what I knew to be three plain-clothes police officers,” Whitby told BBC News 24.
"As the man got on the train I looked at his face. He looked from left to right, but he basically looked like a cornered rabbit, like a cornered fox,” Whitby said. "He looked absolutely petrified.”
"He half-tripped, was half-pushed to the floor,” Whitby said. "One of the police officers was holding a black automatic pistol in his left hand. They held it down to him and unloaded five shots into him. I saw it. He's dead, five shots, he's dead."
Teri Godly, who was also in the train car when the suspected bomber boarded, said eight or nine police officers with shotguns boarded after him and started shouting at passengers to get out.
"People started screaming and we all started running quite calmly up the stairs. There were six or seven gun shots behind us. It was very surreal. No one was pushing or shoving. We were in a state of shock,” Godly said. "It was only afterwards that I realized how lucky we had been."
Chris Wells, a 28-year-old company manager, said he was traveling on the Victoria Line (search) towards Vauxhall when he left the train at Stockwell.
He saw about 20 police officers, some of them armed, rushing into the station before a man jumped over the barriers with police giving chase.
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Wonderful. Good on Old Bill.
Well, which is it a fox or a rabbit?
He suddenly lost faith in receiving 72 virgins?
A version of Stockholm Syndrome ping!
He is in a better place with some virgins now...
They're not so brave when the opposition isn't a bunch of unarmed, unaware civilians going about their daily business.
Brave men, to tackle and lay on top of a man suspected of being a suicide bomber.
My hat's off to them. Good job.
it better have been a rabbit. Fox hunting is inhumane you know!
Remind me never to share a foxhole with Mark Whitby.
Five quick shots to the head. No worries, he likely didn't feel a thing.
Well, he went from petrified to stiff.
Works for me.
Coulda been a fobbit. Or a rax.
Although I suppose this makes me a bad person...
Being petrified, I'm very surprised there was any bullet penetration.
May all of Mohammed's henchmen feel the fear of facing the music...
I'm sure it was very traumatising for Mr. Whitby to see an actual GUN being brandished in public; what IS this world coming to!
"He is in a better place with some virgins now..."
virgin goats
He must not like virgins. Probably a homosexual.
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