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Brit terrorist suspect to police during raid: "I have rights...I'm scared"
The Sun ^

Posted on 07/30/2005 7:57:24 AM PDT by quesney

Unbelievable. The nerve of these self-absorbed cowards.

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Suspect: I have rights

By VIRGINIA WHEELER, JEROME STARKEY and RICHARD WHITE

THE two terror suspects caught in West London demanded cops respect their HUMAN RIGHTS during the siege on their flat.

A witness said: “I heard one of them say ‘I’ve got rights’.”

And an astonished security source said: “We could not believe our ears when we heard them moaning about their human rights.

“What about the rights of the innocent people we believe they wanted to kill?

“What about the rights of the 52 people murdered by the four suicide bombers on July 7?”

Bus bomb suspect Muktar Mohammed-Said and alleged Oval Tube attacker Ramzi Mohammed also told police they were too scared to come out of their flat.

Delivery driver Alex Ospina — who lives on the estate where the arrests were made — said he heard one of the men shouting to police.

Alex, 31, said: “The police were saying ‘Come out’, but the guy was saying he was scared.

“He was saying: ‘How do I know you’re not going to shoot me like the guy in Stockwell Tube station?’

“The police told him: ‘That was a mistake, it’s not going to happen.’”

The speed of the police operation meant many terrified residents were trapped in their flats as cops stormed the building in Dalgarno Gardens, Notting Hill.

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One mum, who declined to be named, heard cops pleading with one of the men to get out.

She said: “Police were shouting something like: ‘Mohammed, get out, get out. Give yourself up.’

“The negotiations went on for about 30 minutes. The next thing I knew there was a huge explosion as police blew the doors off the apartment and rushed in.”

Videocam footage shot by one resident showed the moment the terror suspects were arrested. Both men emerged naked on a balcony, holding their hands in the air.

They were spitting and coughing from the effects of CS gas and smoke from the stun grenades.

One witness said: “The police slowly inched them back inside the flat.

“Both men had a look of absolute surrender. They appeared to be very shocked.”

Residents later saw one suspect being led away wearing a white police-issue boiler suit with plastic bags over his hands.

Resident Kay Major said: “Two officers in blue boiler suits were on either side of him. They walked slowly and got inside a Black Astra.

“The man had plastic bags over his hands and they held paper or cardboard over his face.”

One stunned estate resident told how he has been caught up FOUR times in the London bombings.

Dad-of-two Michael Hellings, 39, was injured in the Aldgate attack on 7/7. He was then evacuated from a mosque in East London after he went there to thank Muslims who had helped him.

He also walked past a park in Notting Hill when cops carried out a controlled explosion last week — and he LIVES on the estate raided yesterday.

Mr Hellings said: “These troubles seem to follow me around.

“I don’t know if I’m the luckiest man alive or the most unlucky.”

Police chief Peter Clarke, head of the Met’s anti-terrorist branch, last night thanked the public for their support and assistance during the probe into the bombings.

He urged anyone with information about the suspects to ring the police hotline on 0800 789321.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: london; londonattacked
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To: Brilliant
"He DOES have rights."
And so, as Servius Galba said once, make his cross taller than usual, and whitewash it.
61 posted on 07/30/2005 8:57:47 AM PDT by GSlob
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To: quesney
Give the guys "Fizz-ics is Fun" T-shirts to honor the results of their applying their scientific skills to the 7/21 "bombings."
62 posted on 07/30/2005 9:00:40 AM PDT by syriacus (Muslims who really want peace should unite behind a non-violent leader like Gandhi, King, or Walesa.)
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To: hoosiermama

Forget life imprisonment - why make the taxpayers support someone who wants no part of their society? Take him into field, strap an explosive belt around him and a dead hog (nails facing in, of course) and send him on his way...IMHO...


63 posted on 07/30/2005 9:02:53 AM PDT by bt_dooftlook (Democrats - the "No Child/Left/Behind" Party)
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To: MizSterious

so true, thats why a united front against these bastards needs to occur - gutless wusses


64 posted on 07/30/2005 9:05:38 AM PDT by deathb4dishoner
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To: norwaypinesavage

Hi there,

Can you explain your nick? It made me curious :-)


65 posted on 07/30/2005 9:11:45 AM PDT by Eurotwit (WI)
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To: Eurotwit
[ Well, I believe that the Brits do have God given rights. They just need to be claimed. And as an afterthought...Americans should not be too smug about their rights either. They are eroding left, right and center. Cheers. ]

Your correct...
ALL have God given rights.. but they sign them away with their gov'ts(MOBS)..

And you are correct about the U.S. too.. Tallyho...

66 posted on 07/30/2005 9:11:55 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been ok'ed by me to included some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: MarkBsnr

Maybe they should publish a photo of the London Bobbies soaking their bullets in pig blood.


67 posted on 07/30/2005 9:14:36 AM PDT by sportutegrl (People who say, "All I know is . . ." really mean, "All I want you to focus on is . . .")
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To: quesney

He has the right to beheaded before he joins his virgins in hell.


68 posted on 07/30/2005 9:22:23 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: MizSterious

Exactly. When cornered and put in a position where they would need to fight, they turn into the simpering cowards they really are. Useless pieces of human garbage would rather blow up defenseless innocents.


69 posted on 07/30/2005 9:22:52 AM PDT by headstamp
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To: Grampa Dave

Man, I would love to see headlines like that here but the Leftist Pressholes would never allow it.


70 posted on 07/30/2005 9:24:41 AM PDT by headstamp
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To: bt_dooftlook

Sew them into a sow's carcass and plant it somewhere under a big rock.

Sorry for all the posts, guess my blood is up this morning. LOL


71 posted on 07/30/2005 9:27:39 AM PDT by headstamp
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To: razorback-bert

Oh for the days of Merry old England

72 posted on 07/30/2005 9:29:33 AM PDT by Charlespg (Civilization and freedom are only worthy of those who defend or support defending It)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Cut his head off.

And mount it on a pike on London Bridge, to be picked clean by the ravens.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

-ccm

73 posted on 07/30/2005 9:36:04 AM PDT by ccmay (Question Diversity)
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To: Sterco

Muslims do not believe in the law unless they think that it provides some "rights" for them. And Muslims do not believe in the Bible, unless they think that they can prove by it that Mohammed is the "promised one".


74 posted on 07/30/2005 9:39:54 AM PDT by tessalu
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

BRING BACK THE GALLOWS.


75 posted on 07/30/2005 9:42:10 AM PDT by Newbomb Turk
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To: quesney
“Both men had a look of absolute surrender. They appeared to be very shocked.”

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...

76 posted on 07/30/2005 9:44:26 AM PDT by The Electrician ("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
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To: quesney

"How do you know we aren't going to shoot you? If you don't come out, we sure as shit WILL shoot you!"


77 posted on 07/30/2005 9:47:54 AM PDT by Ciexyz (Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Maybe it's time for the crown to take back a power or two.


78 posted on 07/30/2005 9:48:29 AM PDT by AmishDude (Join the Amishdude fan club: "LOL, you have a great sense of humor." -- msmagoo54)
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To: quesney
Chicken liver bastard! DIE!a brave death like your innocent victims!!
79 posted on 07/30/2005 9:49:04 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: razorback-bert

I can imagine how Queen Elizabeth and Sir Francis Walsingham would have handled these punks.


80 posted on 07/30/2005 9:49:27 AM PDT by Ciexyz (Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
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