A man’s been shot dead on the Tube. Now there are any number of justifiable reasons for doing this – eating a hamburger, listening to an iPod too loudly, reading an unfolded broadsheet, taking up both armrests – but in this case it looks like he was one of yesterday’s failed suicide bombers trying to escape from police.
It further confirms these lame-duck terrorists’ monumental stupidity. You’re trying to get away from police, and you duck into a tube station? Some of the most intensely surveilled and controlled places in London? He even got onto a train; surely even in the heat of the chase he couldn’t have believed it would pull away with half a dozen H&K’d cops chasing him down the platform. Oh well – assuming it’s the right guy, that’s one down, three to go.
Posted on July 22, 2005
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