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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funny how they leave out the fact that he was being CHASED for a reason
Yeah. Damned shame...
I guess they won't be debating about a mitlitary tribunal, panties on the head, or mishandling this guy's koran.
It's about time the civilized world strikes terror in the hearts of these vermin.
If he'd gotten petrified earlier -- like when the police officers first ordered him to stop -- instead of sprinting over a security barrier and through the station, he'd still be alive. His choice.
That's it, a "Fobbit", "gunned down" trying to "escape the clutches" of the police.
Is it any wonder that we cannot read Hegel when we don't even know what many of our common words actually mean?
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1189947,00.html
That's what got me, that the police would shoot a petrified man. Or, alternatively, that they found one of those petrified bogmen who had been killed by prehistoric police.
I have no problem with that. This moved out of the realm of civilian law enforcement when the jihadis started using other Mohammedans as a recruiting pool, and camouflage.
: ) I was actually speaking metaphorically..... the "bomb" I meant was dropped from his a*s
and yes, i'd suspect it was explosive!! hehehe
"Petrified?" Boo hoo hoo, boo hoo, boo hoo hoo.
Did he look terrorized?
Are the British police terrorizing terrorists?
Biological!
"Why would they shoot the man if he was subdued? Obviously, they thought that he was wearing an explosive device, (later found that he wasn't? ) so is that why they killed him?"
A.Less paperwork?
B.The shooter had a date?
C.The officer tripped over the petrified fobbit causing his weapon to discharge 5 times.
D.The officers studied the Rodney King case?
LMAO! good thing it wasn't "nucular"
An important future element of defeating these animals will be to demonize the enemy. Think in terms of the Inquisition, Japanese internment, etc. Unfortunately for all muslims, these heathens are doing it collectively.
When a story hits print that suggests one of these animals was “petrified” or “scared”, it humanizes them. Just the opposite of the required effect. Wont’ happen much in the future.
Expect more demonizing stories in the weeks, months, and perhaps years to come. Will make the demonization and ultimate annihilation of these animals palatable to the population at large.
It is politically incorrect to call them terrorists. They are "bombers", not "terrorists" (at least the BBC says so).
It SHOULD have opened up his head like a hammer to a cantaloupe. If he still had a face it's time to go to a larger caliber... Maybe Scotland Yard should look at the S&W .460 Magnum XVR.
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