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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1686758/posts

DEFENCELESS. Airline Bomb Plot Cops' fury at ban on guns in terror raids
UK Mirror ^ | Aug. 20, 2006 | Justin Penrose

Posted on 08/19/2006 11:37:13 PM PDT by FairOpinion

UNARMED police were sent to search homes in the airline terror plot - despite a cache of weapons being uncovered in one house.

It is thought police chiefs did not want to risk another bungle like the Forest Gate raid or the shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes.

But a senior intelligence source said: "The decision not to go in with armed officers was dicing with death. What would have happened if the came up against an armed suspect?

All 23 arrests in High Wycombe, Walthamstow and Birmingham were carried out by Metropolitan Police's unarmed Territorial Support Group.

(Excerpt) Read more at sundaymirror.co.uk ...