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Brenda Ann August 17th 05 12:52 PM

Deep shit coming down in London
 
Here ya go folks.. seems that guy they shot wasn't acting suspicious at all

http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=308557

--
Illigitimus non tatum carborundum

(Don't let the *******s wear you down)



[email protected] August 17th 05 05:35 PM

He was just an electrician,wasen't he? For whatever reason he ran,I
believe he had a very good reason to run.I haven't read the article you
posted yet,fixin to read it now.
cuhulin


[email protected] August 17th 05 05:43 PM

Perhaps the Brazilian guy spotted the limey cops planting some
"evidence" and the limey cops didn't want him to squeal on what he saw?
London metropolitian limeyland cops,the World is on to y'alls "game".
cuhulin


David August 17th 05 06:20 PM

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:35:55 -0500, wrote:

He was just an electrician,wasen't he? For whatever reason he ran,I
believe he had a very good reason to run.I haven't read the article you
posted yet,fixin to read it now.
cuhulin

He did not run. He was sitting.


dxAce August 17th 05 06:33 PM



David wrote:

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:35:55 -0500, wrote:

He was just an electrician,wasen't he? For whatever reason he ran,I
believe he had a very good reason to run.I haven't read the article you
posted yet,fixin to read it now.
cuhulin

He did not run. He was sitting.


At least according to those reports. Apparently the full story has yet to be
told.

dxAce
Michigan
USA



[email protected] August 17th 05 10:50 PM

That married Irish woman whom lives wayyyy over yonder across the big
pond works at a limeyland govt office.I haven't queried her yet about
the full story.She is not a dummy,she knows more than I know.
cuhulin


[email protected] August 17th 05 10:54 PM

Ehhhhh,,,,,,the london limeyland metropolitan cops (I emailed them
bastids about three years ago) are hideing something.
cuhulin


David August 18th 05 02:24 PM

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 01:12:25 GMT, "-=jd=-"
wrote:


On Wed 17 Aug 2005 07:52:57a, "Brenda Ann" wrote in
message :

Here ya go folks.. seems that guy they shot wasn't acting suspicious at all

http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=308557


There's version-2, which purports a case of mistaken identity. Will there be
any more versions?

-=jd=-

The point is that people with guns panicked.


Andrew Oakley August 18th 05 02:56 PM

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:24:16 GMT, David wrote:
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 01:12:25 GMT, "-=jd=-"
wrote:
On Wed 17 Aug 2005 07:52:57a, "Brenda Ann" wrote in
message :
Here ya go folks.. seems that guy they shot wasn't acting suspicious at all
http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=308557


However the report does confirm that he DID ignore police warnings to
stop.

That would get you shot in most countries. The only reason it's such a
big deal here is because the UK police don't usually carry guns.

(Almost all UK police officers have the OPTION to have firearms
training and to carry a gun if they wish. Most choose not. Also note
most UK armed police prefer submachine or assault rifles [specifically
P90 and MP5] rather the sidearms/pistols.)

There's version-2, which purports a case of mistaken identity. Will there be
any more versions?

The point is that people with guns panicked.


True, but not before they had radioed back to HQ and got HQ to confirm
that this was indeed a prime bomber suspect.

The main thing that went wrong was that the officers on the spot
believed his identity was confirmed as prime suspect, when in fact he
was an unrelated bystander. Now the question is: was this an error by
HQ or was it an error by the officers?

Going back on topic for a moment, what would be really superb would be
for a London scanning enthusiast to provide a copy of the
conversations between the police officers and HQ. We'd then be able to
judge whether it was the police officers or HQ that got it wrong.

Unfortunately there are two problems he
1. It is illegal for the general public to listen in to police radio
broadcasts in the UK
2. Police radio broadcasts are digitally encrypted.

The UK police digital radio system is called Tetra. Here's an overview
by a rural police force (not the London Metropolitain police):

http://www.tetramou.com/catalogue/Ar...english/03.asp

More details at www.tetramou.com

More about UK scanner law he
http://www.monitoringtimes.com/html/mtlaws_may04.html

--
Andrew Oakley andrew/atsymbol/aoakley/stop/com
Gloucestershire, UK

[email protected] August 18th 05 03:06 PM

I am guessing (only guessing) the Brazilian guy was a "prime suspect"
for sure.They knew they was going to murder him before he stepped out of
that house/building.Your phoney story doesn't wash with me.
cuhulin


David August 18th 05 03:25 PM

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:06:43 -0500, wrote:

I am guessing (only guessing) the Brazilian guy was a "prime suspect"
for sure.They knew they was going to murder him before he stepped out of
that house/building.Your phoney story doesn't wash with me.
cuhulin

You give the wrong people guns, they shoot people with them. The man
was restrained.


[email protected] August 18th 05 04:47 PM

Mostly,it is decent Citizens of U.S.A.who own Guns.More Guns,Less crime.
www.jacksoncrime.org Now Drop and gimme me fifthy!
cuhulin


RedOctober August 18th 05 07:31 PM


wrote:
Mostly,it is decent Citizens of U.S.A.who own Guns.More Guns,Less crime.
www.jacksoncrime.org Now Drop and gimme me fifthy!
cuhulin


The UK is a lost cause....

The man was wearing a trenchcoat.... a garment that is somehow
connected to anarchism, terrorism, and anti-social behavior.

Looks like I am going to wear my trenchcoat more often, maybe i'll
throw in a set of combat boots and camo too. But luckily in the USA we
have laws that sort of protect us from being shot SS Nazi Germany
style.


[email protected] August 18th 05 08:53 PM

Maybe we should all just go naked? Nothing to see here!
cuhulin


Brian August 18th 05 09:03 PM

The man was wearing a trenchcoat....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4163568.stm

There's a picture of the guy after he'd been shot in the head seven times
about mid-way down the page; he was not wearing a trench coat.....not that
it matters much now.

-Brian



[email protected] August 18th 05 10:36 PM

Dime bag laura welch bush FAILED! to STOP at a STOP sign in
Midland,Texas and her highschool boyfiend died of a broken neck as a
result of that.What do y'all think would have happened to me if I failed
(I obey all rules of the road) to STOP at a STOP sign and it caused
injury or death to someone? I wouldn't get off scott free nor would I
want to! Dime bag laura welch bush is s......g somebody else,not
g.w.bush.
cuhulin


[email protected] August 19th 05 02:29 AM

Any information anywhere of how long it was after he left his room/flat
(whatever the h... they call it over there?) and when the murdering
b......s "cops" decided to murder him?
cuhulin


Honus August 19th 05 02:30 AM


"Brian" wrote in message
nk.net...
The man was wearing a trenchcoat....


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4163568.stm

There's a picture of the guy after he'd been shot in the head seven times
about mid-way down the page; he was not wearing a trench coat.....not that
it matters much now.


I'm not much into conspiracy theories, but I've got to call -bull****- on
this statement:

"The BBC has also learned the shooting was not captured on Stockwell Tube's
CCTV because police officers had removed the cameras' disks for their
investigation into the suicide bomb suspects who boarded the train at the
same station the previous day. "

So, they pull the disks out and don't replace them, effectively denying
themselves an obviously useful tool in the event of a second attack? Look at
the info gleaned from the disks, and then tell me that they didn't bother
replacing them. That just stinks of cover-up. It's beyond incompetence, and
so I ain't buying it.



[email protected] August 19th 05 02:35 AM

london metropolitan cops are really no authority anymore,neither is new
Scotland yard.Hey,it was New York,U.S.A.that told them what happened.The
only thing london metropolitan cops are good for is walking old biddies
accross the streets and when they get off duty and back home,peeking
through the curtains in their windows just like all of them other
limeyland Cowards over there.
cuhulin


David August 19th 05 02:45 AM

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 00:54:37 GMT, "-=jd=-"
wrote:


So what gives? Did a reporter grab some commuter schmuck at the scene and
swallow the initial reports (about the padded jacket; attempting to elude;
refusing to comply with officer orders) without verifying it? Then that one
account made the network rounds until it mushroomed into a near conspiracy?

Is it possible for the media to make a traqic event even worse?

-=jd=-



''Scotland Yard initially claimed he wore a bulky jacket and jumped
the barrier when police identified themselves and ordered him to
stop.''

http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlo...537613,00.html


David August 19th 05 02:47 AM

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 00:35:01 GMT, "-=jd=-"
wrote:


On Thu 18 Aug 2005 09:24:16a, David wrote in message
:

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 01:12:25 GMT, "-=jd=-"
wrote:


On Wed 17 Aug 2005 07:52:57a, "Brenda Ann" wrote
in message :

Here ya go folks.. seems that guy they shot wasn't acting suspicious
at all

http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=308557


There's version-2, which purports a case of mistaken identity. Will
there be any more versions?

-=jd=-

The point is that people with guns panicked.



I think the people with guns were the least panicked involved as they
seemed, so far, to be *quite* efficient at their tasks. It appears that
once they received a "Positive ID", they did what they were supposed to do.
The "problem" is with whoever made the "Positive ID" -AND- it seems two or
more people were working on that confirmation. This presumes we are talking
only about the current case and the rapid sequence of events that took
place once "Positive ID" was ahem confirmed.

If you are talking about cops being armed in the first place, or a policy
of disabling a suicide bomber by speedily boring a large, violent hole
through their medulla-oblongata, then that's a different (though related)
issue.

-=jd=-

10 rounds at the head?

They were afraid he had an invisible bomb.




Honus August 19th 05 02:49 AM


"-=jd=-" wrote in message
8...

I think the people with guns were the least panicked involved as they
seemed, so far, to be *quite* efficient at their tasks.


Come on, jd...-seven- rounds to the head, from about as close as you can
get? At the very least, it's wasteful. IMO somebody had trouble with their
nerve.

If you are talking about cops being armed in the first place, or a policy
of disabling a suicide bomber by speedily boring a large, violent hole
through their medulla-oblongata, then that's a different (though related)
issue.


Is there really anyone here who doesn't support that? (That's not directed
at jd...that's a serious query.)



David August 19th 05 03:14 AM

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 01:56:10 GMT, "-=jd=-"
wrote:



Still no name... How does a mob of reporters get the juicy details of the
shooting, but not the name of the Cop/official dispensing said details?
It's got to be out there, buried on one of the news sites. I just can't
find it. Or is this a case, as I mentioned before, where some decidedly
unofficial source provided unverified details of a big juicy story that
through over-play in the media, has now morphed into a media-created
conspiracy?

-=jd=-

I found yer guy.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4706913.stm


David August 19th 05 03:16 AM

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:10:48 GMT, "-=jd=-"
wrote:




You heard there were 10 rounds fired? I heard there were 8 rounds total,
only 7 of which perforated the victim. Discrepancies abound with this
story... Was it an invisible bomb? Doubtful. Perhaps the bomb was already
on-board & he was supposed to detonate it or be transported to allah by it
- heck if *I* know. We'll know when the rest of the information comes out.
The "scoot & shoot" team was apparently told that this was "positively the
guy" and they believed he was in the process of, or intending to, detonate
a bomb. So, they did what they were *supposed* to do based on the
information they were given. The question I'm asking is how was the
positive ID arrived at by two (or more) people in order to tell the
shooters they had the right guy - when they didn't have the right guy?

-=jd=-


That's a 20 minutes-into-the-future horror scenario.


Honus August 19th 05 03:56 AM


"-=jd=-" wrote in message
8...
On Thu 18 Aug 2005 09:49:12p, "Honus"
wrote in message news:sUaNe.12405$Xw5.8566@trnddc02:


"-=jd=-" wrote in message
8...

I think the people with guns were the least panicked involved as they
seemed, so far, to be *quite* efficient at their tasks.


Come on, jd...-seven- rounds to the head, from about as close as you can
get? At the very least, it's wasteful. IMO somebody had trouble with
their nerve.


**warning - don't read if you are easily squeamish**

I have a rule - if I'm not down to my last mag and I have to shoot

someone
in order to stop them from doing something: I'm going to start shooting at
the earliest opportunity, and I'm going to keep shooting until they quit
doing whatever it was that made me shoot them in the first place. Plus one
or two extra rounds.

Take the case of a hostage-taker holding a gun to a hostage's head. LA Co.
Sheriffs SWAT has found that when head-shot by a sniper (typically a

..308),
there's hopeful-news and bad-news... Bad-News: The hostage taker *will*
most likely still fire his gun at least once. Hopeful-News: The hostage
taker's gun most likely *will not* still be pointed at the hostage's head
when it goes off.


Believe it or not, I always wondered about that.

If I was one of the guys told to go stop that suicide bomber from
detonating, In order to be sure, I think I would fire at least four

rounds,
if not six, seven or ten. Figure *at least* three per second.


At least. I don't rapid fire, especially since it's frowned on in every gun
range I've ever been to, but I can double that estimate. Accuracy is a
different question. g

I don't think
I would have the luxury of shooting someone "just a little bit".


I agree.

Personal experience: At about 2 pm in upstate New York, a guy shoots
someone else, then himself (straight through over the ears), with a

charter
arms .44 bulldog. He's still breathing on his own. After transporting to
the nearest hospital, they take a CAT/MRI/something scan, and reveal the
biggest cigar-shaped wound channel you could fit through his brain. He
didn't die until after 7pm that evening. The guy he shot survived, but
still has a chunk of lead in him.

So, is seven rounds excessive? Well, it depends on how badly you want to
make sure he can't push a button, and you only get one chance. Either way,
you are rolling a mighty big pair of dice...


That's admittedly true. But I think four would have sufficed. And what about
the cop that grabbed the guy? I get the feeling (and that's all it is) that
he didn't expect his partner to be squeezing off rounds. I wonder how his
ears are doing right about now.

If you are talking about cops being armed in the first place, or a
policy of disabling a suicide bomber by speedily boring a large,
violent hole through their medulla-oblongata, then that's a different
(though related) issue.


Is there really anyone here who doesn't support that? (That's not
directed at jd...that's a serious query.)


If faced with a suicide bomber (in close proximity) that is about to
detonate, there is no other option if you want the best chance at stopping
him (and staying alive yourself). Anybody else is welcome to try and
negotiate, wrestle, bribe, whatever. Though I think that after you

identify
yourself, there may be a big BOOM before you could form the "k" sound in
"Let's Talk"...


I entirely agree. I'm just wondering if anyone else -doesn't-.



Brian August 19th 05 04:50 AM

Is it possible for the media to make a traqic event even worse?


Actually yes, and just to clarify, it's tragic.

-Brian



Brenda Ann August 19th 05 04:50 AM


"David" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:10:48 GMT, "-=jd=-"
wrote:




You heard there were 10 rounds fired? I heard there were 8 rounds total,
only 7 of which perforated the victim. Discrepancies abound with this
story... Was it an invisible bomb? Doubtful. Perhaps the bomb was already
on-board & he was supposed to detonate it or be transported to allah by

it
- heck if *I* know. We'll know when the rest of the information comes

out.
The "scoot & shoot" team was apparently told that this was "positively

the
guy" and they believed he was in the process of, or intending to,

detonate
a bomb. So, they did what they were *supposed* to do based on the
information they were given. The question I'm asking is how was the
positive ID arrived at by two (or more) people in order to tell the
shooters they had the right guy - when they didn't have the right guy?

-=jd=-


That's a 20 minutes-into-the-future horror scenario.


You've seen Max Headroom.. :)



Brad August 19th 05 11:38 AM


"-=jd=-" wrote in message news. The question I'm
asking is how was the
positive ID arrived at by two (or more) people in order to tell the
shooters they had the right guy - when they didn't have the right guy?

-=jd=-


How indeed. Let's see, Arabic Muslim Terrorist with bulky jacket, jumping
turnstiles and running onto the train = Brazilian Catholic Electrician with
lightweight denim jacket, with a travelpass, collecting a free newspaper and
sitting on the train.
Yup, they ****ed up from the very beginning and then they lied about it.
Call that Intelligence?
And the guy in charge was out taking a ****. Who called the shots eh?
I think the journalist who started the whole "suicide by cop" thing needs to
start apologising for talking a load of crap too.

Brad.



Brad August 19th 05 11:49 AM


wrote in message
...
Mostly,it is decent Citizens of U.S.A.who own Guns.More Guns,Less crime.
www.jacksoncrime.org Now Drop and gimme me fifthy!
cuhulin


Bull****. your homicide rate is more than 3 times higher than ours.
Brad
Australia




David August 19th 05 02:23 PM

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:50:52 GMT, "-=jd=-"
wrote:


No, that's just one of the commuters. I've found plenty of references to
"initial eye witnesses". What's missing is where the "Running, Heavy Coat,
Acting Suspicious, Eluding" was confirmed or attributed to some "Official".

Absent that, then it would appear to me that the *media* took commuter
interviews and have morphed those unofficial descriptions into the official
"Scotland Yard Initial Brief". When in fact, I can't find where a named
official with *any* law enforcement agency involved provided that
information. Now that investigation details have been leaked, it's being
drummed as if S.Y. was attempting a cover-up, when there's really *zero*
indication they had any intention of covering anything up. In fact, by
breifing the victim's family *during* the investigation, it looks like S.Y.
is trying to be completely straight with the facts, as they are verified.
Perhaps the media *has* been duped and is perpetuating non-factual
information that is aggravating an already tragic situation - again, not
through malice, just through shoddy, journalism. And no-one's calling them
on it (except me, of course).

-=jd=-

The ''Guardian'' article above says that Scotland Yard provided those
erroneous details. Scotland Yard is the HQ of the Municipal Police,
ain't it?


David August 19th 05 02:26 PM

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 03:16:28 GMT, "-=jd=-"
wrote:

Heck, *one* shot could have sufficed if they just wanted to kill him, but
they believed they were trying to prevent a detonation (you places yer
bets, you takes yer chances). If, like the officers involved in this
shooting you think the guy can detonate a bomb, why risk it?

I had the impression that the task of the cop that grabbed him was to pin
his arms and hands in case he tried to reach for a detonator, while someone
else was responsible for taking the shots. And I'm sure his ears may still
be ringing...

-=jd=-


No bomb. Just panic.


Andrew Oakley August 19th 05 03:51 PM

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 00:54:37 GMT, "-=jd=-"
wrote:
I'm thinking the media has been duped, not by malice, but by sloppy
journalism in the race to be first with the breaking news.


I reckon you've hit the nail on the head, there.

So what gives? Did a reporter grab some commuter schmuck at the scene and
swallow the initial reports (about the padded jacket; attempting to elude;
refusing to comply with officer orders) without verifying it? Then that one
account made the network rounds until it mushroomed into a near conspiracy?


This wouldn't be the first time the BBC and other British media have
jumped the gun. The Beeb were recently found guilty of making false
accusations against the UK government's reasons for entering the
second Iraq war, which may have contributed to the suicide of a
government defense consultant. In particular the BBC was criticised
for allowing a major story to air UNCHECKED.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_inquiry

I do find it a rather laughable situation, after all the BBC are just
another government-run broadcaster, no matter how much people would
like to play this down by calling their funding a "licence fee" rather
than a tax (there's a 10-quid a month "licence fee" for having a
television in your house; sounds like a tax to me). Essentially what
happened was that one division of the government took another division
of the government to court for libel (but they called it a "judicial
enquiry"), which is plainly daft and an indicator of just how
overburdened with bureaucracy the UK has become.

Whilst the UK news media are more serious in their political coverage
than their US cousins, there is nevertheless the same hunger to be
"first with the news", and the Sky/Fox corporation battle it out with
the BBC to be the first to break any news item. The BBC is also
particularly fond of digging, digging and digging some more to find
dirt on politicians and politics; this has been backfiring frequently
in recent years as the desperation to beat Sky/Fox to a news story
often means that stories go out unchecked.

If an Sky or BBC reporter got an eyewitness spinning them a complete
yarn about a major story, they WOULD broadcast it, because they're too
busy racing to beat their competitors to the scoop rather than
stopping to coroborate the evidence.

So I reckon you've got it absolutely correct on about a reporter
swallowing an initial eyewitness report without verifying it, and it
spiralling out of control.

--
Andrew Oakley andrew/atsymbol/aoakley/stop/com
Gloucestershire, UK

Andrew Oakley August 19th 05 04:00 PM

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:35:10 -0500, wrote:

london metropolitan cops are really no authority anymore,neither is new
Scotland yard.Hey,it was New York,U.S.A.that told them what happened.The
only thing london metropolitan cops are good for is walking old biddies
accross the streets and when they get off duty and back home,peeking
through the curtains in their windows


Well, yes, I'd certainly agree that the UK police have been
ineffectual with several recent major events. However, you've got to
give them credit for arresting all four of the recent bomb suspects
within a week of the failed bomb attack. Four years on and there's
only been one person arrested over 9/11 and he got released!

just like all of them other
limeyland Cowards over there.


Now that's just blatant childish namecalling, unncessary and
unintelligent. If you have a logical argument, fine, let's discuss it
(ideally on a political newsgroup) but there's no need for prejudice.
What on earth have you got against Brits? We always back you Americans
up, even when you occasionally have some ill-considered moments, let's
have a bit of support coming back our way too, please?

As for cowardice, may I remind you that we entered WWII in 1939 even
though we hadn't yet been attacked, two years before the USA who only
entered when their naval bases were bombed. I'm not saying that our
actions were particularly intelligent, but you certainly can't accuse
the UK of being cowards. If anything, I'd say we're rather feisty -
never shy of a good scrap!

--
Andrew Oakley andrew/atsymbol/aoakley/stop/com
Gloucestershire, UK

Andrew Oakley August 19th 05 04:06 PM

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:51:52 +0100, Andrew Oakley
wrote:
government defense consultant. In particular the BBC was criticised


Oh dear, all this taking to Americans is beginning to rub off on me.

I did, of course, mean "defence consultant" not "defense consultant".

http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/american.html


--
Andrew Oakley andrew/atsymbol/aoakley/stop/com
Gloucestershire, UK

[email protected] August 19th 05 04:12 PM

How his ears are doing? On a fireing range with a bunch of other guys
fireing their Firearms (M1 Garand Rifles,at least) being fired,you only
hear the mechanical clicking noise of the Rifle you are fireing.I know
that is the way it was when I was at the Fireing Range at Fort
Gordon,Georgia in 1962.
cuhulin


[email protected] August 19th 05 04:16 PM

I remember a DI once told us lean mean fighting machines,y'all better
not lose or damage that M1 Garand Rifle because if you do,$164.00 will
be dectucted from your pay.I took durn good care of my Rifle that was
issued to me.
cuhulin


[email protected] August 19th 05 04:23 PM

It is called New Scotland Yard nowdays.I dont remember how many years
ago it was,but the old Scotland Yard moved into a new building,(or some
new buildings) whatever.I think it has been at least twenty years ago,I
could be mistaken though.
cuhulin


[email protected] August 19th 05 04:27 PM

I think Sky is better than BBC.Only my opinion.
cuhulin


[email protected] August 19th 05 04:38 PM

I have known for years about the brit "white paper" they have or did
have about removing all of the Irish folks from the Six Counties.Lots of
brit comedies and other brit programs on tv in U.S.A.show how good the
brits are at peeking through their window curtains.Most folks in
U.S.A.are not window curtain peekers,I always step outside if I want to
see what's going on outside.In U.S.A.there are some brit comedies and
other brit tv programs on BBCAmerica all the time and also on PBS TV.
cuhulin


Frank Dresser August 19th 05 04:49 PM


"-=jd=-" wrote in message
8...


I'm thinking the media has been duped, not by malice, but by sloppy
journalism in the race to be first with the breaking news.

I can't find anything that names an authority official as providing the
initial reports of the victim wearing a padded coat, jumping the

tunstiles,
etc. I *have* seen it attributed to anonymous "initial eyewitness

reports".
For all I know, perhaps Jason Blair provided the info. I sure can't find
anything similar to a clear, direct attribution to any "Inspector Joe
Schmoe-Clouseau of Scotland Yard".


The first round of reports were good, in that they gave the source of the
"padded jacket" as a witness, in this story the witness is named:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4706913.stm

A different eyewitness in the same story says the guy "appeared to have a
bomb belt and wires coming out". Oh, well.


The confusion came later, and oftentimes just hours later. News columnists
were among those most eager to jumble the few known facts with unreliable
eyewitness accounts and jump to their conclusions.

That's the liberal media for ya.





Next, I hear that Scotland Yard, during their on-going investigation,
briefed the family with the information that has been leaked. That tells

me
that the Yard was not going to, and could not, cover anything up if they
were keeping the family informed.

So what gives? Did a reporter grab some commuter schmuck at the scene and
swallow the initial reports (about the padded jacket; attempting to elude;
refusing to comply with officer orders) without verifying it? Then that

one
account made the network rounds until it mushroomed into a near

conspiracy?

The reporters don't have to verify a story. They ought to verify their
source. Such as -- was the eyewitness really at the station? Does the
source seem given to fantasy? Nearly all journalism is some sort of story
retelling.

But, in this case, it seems the "opinion makers" were the worst offenders in
taking the babblings of shocked eyewitnesses as God's Honest Truth.



Is it possible for the media to make a traqic event even worse?



Yes, and we have yet to hear much from the lawyers, politicians and
bureaucrats.

Frank Dresser




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