Posted on 07/24/2005 6:11:57 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Yes, it's so easy to criticize his actions here at the computer with a heart rate of 70 and sipping morning coffee. This guy was confronted with what looked like four men about to assault or kill him. Rational, balanced thought goes out the window. He has to decide in a split second what to do. So he does what his physiology tells him to do when he is outnumbered and threatened - flee. At that point, he is concentrating on getting away. Verbal commands are dificult to process when you are under such extreme stress. Most likely he was already panicked when they yelled "Police" and he didn't even hear it.
Ever been concentrating on something on the computer and you spouse says something directly to you and you don't hear it? Multiply that by a hundred times.
MizSterious [post #62] ~ Experts who've worked around terrorists a lot in places like Israel know that the only way to stop a suicide bomber is to shoot him in the head, and do it more than once.
I didn't run or jump a turnstile either.
It is a tragic but understandable mistake.
He's an electrician.
He was observed leaving an apartment that was under surveillance, in the bombing case.
It's not too much of a stretch for me to imagine that the bombers might want to have an electrician build their detonating devices. Some people will do anything for anyone, if the price is right.
And some people who are not radical Muslims support radical Muslims, with money and by public demonstrations. More needs to be known about this guy's circle of friends and acquaintances, his "politics", did his bank account/s fit those of a typical immigrant electrician from the slums of Brazil?
Medea Benjamin, Jodie Evans and Gael Murphy haven't professed their religious beliefs to be radical Muslim, but they have sent, and continue to collect, money for the "Iraqi resistance" aka the bastards killing and maiming our soldiers, Iraqi police officers and little children.
I have to wonder if Scotland Yard is telling us this story to set the other bombing suspects'minds at ease, while they continue to investigate them.
Lots of blank spaces in this guy's story, for me anyway.
Perhaps I am. That is a detail I wasn't aware of. Is it true? Source please?
That's why it was a head shot. Anti terrorist training emphasizes that a bomber can still trigger his bomb even after being shot in the chest.
I have my grip. Where's yours? If you had stopped to think for just a minute (no need for anything really deap to realize this), you'd also reason that since he came out of a terrorist safe house, refused to stop when ordered to halt, and jumped a turnstile--he wasn't just "any" Middle-Eastern-looking guy. He was a guy who acted so suspiciously that one almost has to wonder if he was committing "suicide by cop."
I'm not the one drinking Kool-Aid.
Hmmm, let me see... If the guys waving guns at me and telling me to stop in the LONDON subway are white, pasty, and shouting with distinct British accents, I think I'd stop. If they were Arabs shouting with Middle Eastern or otherwise NON-British accents, I think I'd keep running.
I think the argument that this guy didn't know who was pursuing him is nonsense.
Source was Metropolitan Police commissioner Ian Blair on Sky News this morning. He initially said 'house' in reference to the building, but then clarified that the building under surveillance was a block of flats. He was questioned as to how many individual residences that comprised, but was unable to give an answer to that.
I just did a search. stop in Portuguese is "batente". In Spanish it's "parada"
The Brits have told the media and family what they want them to hear. Now....they'll go back and track this dude's footsteps and everything else will be "quiet" on him. My feeling is that the "phone number in a knapsack" WAS NOT supposed to get out....since that revealed something to the terrorists.
OK. Thanks. Adds a little more grist for the mill.
That's my feeling, too. I think there's more to this guy's story than we know now.
(And I do wish I'd used spell-check in post #87! I really do know how to spell "deep"!)
Notice it didn't mention where he got his education....Age 27. Before you know it, we'll find out that he was educated in the USA.
Someone I chat with in a chat room has told us this morning that she was once searched at the Washington DC airport because she fitted the profile of a suspect. She had to call Senator McCain who knows her and he confirmed that she was a school teacher from AZ. She said they showed her the other woman's picture and there was a resemblence. She also said she thanked the police for doing their job
A bad speller isn't as apt to be shot dead on site sight.
Again, with the "Arabic" looks vs. "Western" looks BS! Were the cops, Black? Indian? Anglo? DID THEY IDENTIFY THEMSELVES?
*snrk*
His family said he spoke and understood English well.
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