Posted on 07/23/2005 1:32:06 PM PDT by areafiftyone
A man shot dead by police in London was not connected to Thursday's attacks and may have been Brazilian. More Soon...
An asian Brazilian???
I suppose they could have sliced his head off. That works quite nicely too.
Only a fortnight? Try the day before!
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You are right!
Hey, if you can have an 'Asian American' according to the strict PC rules strictly observed on this forum too, then why not an 'Asian South American'? Of course, an Asian from the continent of Asia (such as an Israeli or a Siberian Russian, yes?) would be 'Asian Asian' and an 'American Asian' who moves to Asia would be an 'Asian American Asian'. PC can be quite complicated and there are higher degrees in it, you bet.
LOL!
Maybe he saw a guy in plain clothes point a gun at him, and he ran. Is that strange?
Maybe not. The Brits might have blamed the police for chasing the guy in the first place. The police being there at all must have been why terrorists wanted to set off the bomb.
Kind of, when they are yelling "stop police." Have you ever known anyone to outrun a gun? And why would anyone run into a subway car? Wouldn't a person want to run to where he couldn't be so easily cornered?
"However, there was very little doubt most of these visitors went on to find their way to the triple border region where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay meet. This region, often described as a lawless area, is nicknamed by some intelligence station agents as "The Muslim Triangle meeting zone."
Further to the south in Latin America, Hezbollah and the terrorist Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) are operating in the tri-border region of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. The suspected activities of these groups include counterfeiting U.S. currency and drug smuggling, with the area in which they function described as a "haven for Islamic extremists" by the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Asa Hutchinson, in testimony before the House International Relations Committee
More recently, al-Qaida has become deeply involved in cocaine and heroine trafficking, arms and uranium smuggling, counterfeiting CDs and DVDs and money-laundering activities in the tri-border region of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. The tri-border region is known as the heart of Islamic activity in Latin America."
And
"According to intelligence sources within the federal police, there is an investigation under way to verify if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed visited the triple border area where Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay meet. The area has a strong Moslem community and has been suspected of harbouring terrorist fundraising activity."
Let's keep an open mind. A man coming from a suspected terrorist connection apartment, and then running onto the subway in a coat in the warm London summer, refusing excited multiple police commands to halt! while the immediate area is in a STATE OF WAR (in other words, running and not looking back, although others around him dropped to the floor when ordered--this should be understood in any language), seems to me to have perhaps had something to hide. See the movie "The Great Escape" in one of the final scenes at the German train station. You'll get the idea.
Plenty of people have outran guns. And have you ever heard of someone in plainclothes lying about being a cop?
The one in London was suspected of being a suicide bomber. Those on 9-11 weren't.
It will be interesting to see if he is Muslim, and if he was part of the mosque the terrorist bombers were a part of. It will be interesting to see what connection he has in terms of coming out of the same house as that which is connected with the terrorist bombings. If it turns only even that he was a Muslim, that seals it for me.
Life is short. Stop wasting time on me...you said you would...stick to your word. :-)
And that's just what they're advocating. I think I'm in DU land sometimes.
He was Catholic. And he came out of an apartment building, not a home.
Touche`
Sources please.
Blame? I don't blame cops for doing their job. They saw a threat, and took that threat out.
This is in the Brit papers today: "Menezes' family was Roman Catholic. When asked if he had become Muslim in Britain, Agostino Ferreira Rosa, a policeman in Gonzaga said: ``According to his family, he had nothing to do with Muslims or Islamism. He was Catholic.''
``There was no reason to think he was a terrorist,'' Menezes' grandmother, Zilda Ambrosia de Figueiredo, told the Globo TV late Saturday. ``He was very easygoing and very communicative with everybody. It's terrible what they have done to him.''
And I'll find the apartment info and post, if it isn't clear soon.
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