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To: backhoe; All

http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/19885043?source=Evening%20Standard&ct=5

Suspect shot on Tube
22 July 2005
"A suspected suicide bomber was shot on the London Underground today."

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "There were unconfirmed reports that police believe the man who was shot was one of the attackers involved in yesterday's incidents.

Passenger Briony Coetsee, 23, said: "We were on the Tube when we suddenly heard someone say 'get out, get out' and then we heard gunshots - someone was shooting.

"Somebody in plain clothes who I thought was a civilian cop had his gun out and started shooting and told us to get out."

Chris Wells, a 28-year-old company manager, said he was travelling on the Victoria Line towards Vauxhall when he left the train at Stockwell.

He saw about 20 police officers, some of them armed, rushing into the station before a man jumped over the barriers with police giving chase.

He said: "There were at least 20 of them (officers) and they were carrying big black guns.

"The next thing I saw was this guy jump over the barriers and the police officers were chasing after him and everyone was just shouting 'get out, get out"'.

Christopher Scaglione, 35, a fashion designer, was also on a Victoria Line tube train shortly before the incident.

He said: "The train didn't stop at Vauxhall and so I got out at Stockwell.
"I was just on my way out when I heard at first a little bang, not like a bomb more like a gun, and then people were shouting.

"People then started to run and I heard two or three more bangs like people shooting.""


138 posted on 07/22/2005 3:17:16 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: backhoe; BurbankKarl; nwctwx; All

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4706787.stm

Last Updated: Friday, 22 July, 2005, 10:14 GMT 11:14 UK

"Man shot by armed police on Tube"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: ""I saw an Asian guy run onto the train hotly pursued by three plain-clothes police officers.

"One of them was carrying a black handgun - it looked like an automatic - they pushed him to the floor, bundled on top of him and unloaded five shots into him.

"I saw the gun being fired five times into the guy - he's dead.""


153 posted on 07/22/2005 3:20:18 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy
He said: "There were at least 20 of them (officers) and they were carrying big black guns.

You can ask a hundred eyewitnesses to a shooting and the only thing they will be able to agree on is that the gun was about four feet long and weighed about 300 pounds.

221 posted on 07/22/2005 3:34:47 AM PDT by gridlock (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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