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Police have shot suspected suicuide bomber at Stockwell (Breaking news from London)
Sky News ^ | 22 July, 2005 | Sky News

Posted on 07/22/2005 2:39:11 AM PDT by Eurotwit

Just breaking now on Sky.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bang; gwot; islamonazis; jihadinengland; jihadineurope; koranimals; london; londonattacked; religionofpeace; suicidebombers; waronterror
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To: strange1
Given I have a CPL, and carry a .357. here in the states I'd have made certain he wasn't walking as he tried to leave. I'd at least made it so he'd be easy to find. the detectives could follow the blood trail.

I may only carry a .40 cal. Glock, but my Starfire rounds would have left a hole big enough in his torso to shove that backpack through. :)

801 posted on 07/22/2005 9:07:26 AM PDT by Romish_Papist (The times are out of step with the Catholic Church. God Bless Pope Benedict XVI.)
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To: gridlock

The way they took that guy is precisely what most Britons would expect our anti-terrorist forces to do. Have a look at the latter half of this story from the IRA days.

http://www.specialoperations.com/Counterterrorism/Operation_Flavius.html


802 posted on 07/22/2005 9:09:24 AM PDT by bernie_g
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To: gridlock
"but I think a lot of people, particularly in the press, are not altogether comfortable with this "rah-rah, Rule Brittania, We Are Not Afraid" stuff"

What a lot of people, particularly the press, think, isn't important. All thats important is what the police do, and what people who don't want to die in a bombing think about it. Unless the British people have a suicide wish, I don't think they are going to get upset at the police shooting someone who looked and acted like a terrorist.

Anyone who complains about it, is very likely a terrorist themselves. It just makes it easier to keep an eye on them when they complain.
803 posted on 07/22/2005 9:13:39 AM PDT by monday
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To: duffthor

"By the way....what is this "and the like" you seem to lump me in to?"

What I meant by "and the like" referring to what I keep reading and hearing from all sources(people) from formal and informal news sources referring to 9/11 as if it was only a threat or minimal enemy attack on America when it was a collosal hit comparible to Pearl Harbor during WWII except the thousands of 9/11 victims slaughtered in the twin towers downing were innocent unarmed, unwarned civilians.


804 posted on 07/22/2005 9:14:25 AM PDT by SunnySide (Ephes2:8 ByGraceYou'veBeenSavedThruFaithAGiftOfGodSoNoOneCanBoast)
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To: Kelly_2000

Kelly have you ever read the book or seen the movie of Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" about a society that seeks to end conflict not by lifting everyone UP but by pushing everyone down to the lowest common denominator?

I think there is an element of that in some 'hate the rich' liberals who practice 'politics of envy' and that kind of underlying motive may also be used to manipulate the masses in parts of the Muslim world; envy the rich West, hate the rich West for having what you dont...then bomb it until it becomes as impoverished as you are.

For Allahs sake dont admire Western societies' success and seek to attain the same by throwing off your own corrupt regimes...no 'redress the imbalance' by dragging the West DOWN instead of rising yourselves UP. :-(

Basically a 'misery loves company' approach.

Inhumane and yes, insane.


805 posted on 07/22/2005 9:16:15 AM PDT by FYREDEUS (FYREDEUS)
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To: monday

The man failed to integrate.

Oh well...there will be more arriving tomorrow.


806 posted on 07/22/2005 9:21:11 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: FYREDEUS

Careful, the Handicapper General will get you....


807 posted on 07/22/2005 9:21:35 AM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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To: BurbankKarl
I said don't move....
808 posted on 07/22/2005 9:22:17 AM PDT by traumer
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To: Grampa Dave

Ahhh. As you suspected. I was too kind yesterday, I see. LOL


809 posted on 07/22/2005 9:24:03 AM PDT by Peach
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To: SunnySide

Their silence is deafening = extremely questionable thus creates expected distrust and doubt from Western civilization.

So the left needs to stop this PC BS about profiling. If they are not willing to police their own, then every single one of them is a suspect as far as I am concerned. Every single Mosque needs to be searched for evidence pertaining to aiding and abetting terrorists. If they have nothing to hide they should welcome law enforcement in to clear themselves. Screw politics. The terrorists in London, and I am sure in the US, are living right under our noses and are being protected by the lunacy of the left.

It is time to draw a line in the sand. You are either for us or against us.  


810 posted on 07/22/2005 9:28:51 AM PDT by Allosaurs_r_us (I can't use the cell phone in the car. I have to keep my hands free for making obscene gestures)
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To: traumer

I know what you are thinking....did I fire five shots, or did I fire six? Well, you know, in the midst of all the confusion, I lost track myself....let me pump any remaining rounds into your body JIHADIST!


811 posted on 07/22/2005 9:29:11 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: Peach

You are a kind person.

I'm just a warm and cuddly grampa, skilled over the years in spotting BSers in real life and on the internet.

Still no response from it.

Maybe it is being ferreted out and hunted at this time by some SAS guys loaned out to the London Police or Scotland Yard.


812 posted on 07/22/2005 9:30:05 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (The civilized world must win WW IV/the Final Crusade and destroy Jihadism!)
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To: BurbankKarl

You keep firing until it quits twitching.


813 posted on 07/22/2005 9:30:57 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (The civilized world must win WW IV/the Final Crusade and destroy Jihadism!)
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To: BinaryBoy
I know Brits use the word. This time it was a US host of a US TV network broadcasting to a US audience.

That is becuase they were reporting a quote from an eyewitness, who was, as it happens, in the UK at the time.

Really, this stuff isn't that hard to follow...

814 posted on 07/22/2005 9:31:53 AM PDT by TomB ("The terrorist wraps himself in the world's grievances to cloak his true motives." - S. Rushdie)
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To: Russ7

One might hope theyd be reconsidering it though I doubt it..instead they'll cry out for more unilateral personal disarmament [remember a bunch of them wanting to ban sharp kitchen knives a couple months ago?]...-sigh-

One can only wonder if a trained and armed populace of Britain Freemen and Freewomen might be useful in some of these terrorist incidents, as the Israelis discovered with their own efforts arming the people against terrorists blowing up buses.


Remember it was ancien English Common Law that not merely the symbol but the very ACT of manumission of a slave or 'bondman' was simply to provide him with "armes suitable for a freedman" [which nowadays would be a firearm].

It is beyond sad that a [once?] free people could forget that.


815 posted on 07/22/2005 9:33:20 AM PDT by FYREDEUS (FYREDEUS)
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To: Allosaurs_r_us

Your tagline is funny.. :D !


816 posted on 07/22/2005 9:33:35 AM PDT by SunnySide (Ephes2:8 ByGraceYou'veBeenSavedThruFaithAGiftOfGodSoNoOneCanBoast)
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To: SunnySide

Heard on the news a while ago that the police fired 5 shots. 5 shots entered his head. I like that kind of treatment for terrorist.


817 posted on 07/22/2005 9:46:27 AM PDT by phil1750 (Love like you've never been hurt;Dance like nobody's watching;PRAY like it's your last prayer)
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To: TattooedUSAFConservative

Are Starfire rounds like Powerball Rounds or different.


818 posted on 07/22/2005 9:47:24 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (The civilized world must win WW IV/the Final Crusade and destroy Jihadism!)
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To: Eurotwit

So much for the idea of the friendly, helpful, unarmed British Bobby.

Well done!

Tag a few more.

Jack.


819 posted on 07/22/2005 9:47:48 AM PDT by Jack Deth (Knight Errant and Disemboweler of the WFTD Thread)
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To: Grampa Dave

LOL.

And to think I read Poe's book (own it, in fact) and was so taken in. Shaking my head in dismay.


820 posted on 07/22/2005 9:49:08 AM PDT by Peach
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