Times: Met suppress files that tell full shooting story
Well-placed sources say the Met has declined repeated requests by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) to disclose hundreds of pages of internal papers. The documents give the Met’s private assessment of the botched counter-terrorist operation that led to Jean Charles de Menezes mistakenly being killed by Yard marksmen at Stockwell Underground station last July….
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Posted on March 6th, 2006 at 8:33am under Chicken Nuggets, T.W.A.T., The home front
Now what did the Safety Elephant and his fellow travellers keep telling us? Oh yeh, “if you’ve got nothing to hide, you’ve got nothing to fear”. I rest my case m’lud.
Nobody is totally innocent. It’s not for us to judge. Perhaps this guy had done some bad stuff and it was just his karma, y’know?
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“david.c”: my blog is not a advertising billboard for yours.
Your signal to noise ratio is currently in the quantum. Any more worthless comments that do not contribute to the thread will be deleted.
I’m sorry. I was wrong.
It’s quite obvious that everyone smells a rat, concerning this ‘botched counter-terrorism operation’. The strange thing is, nobody seems to have the nerve to actually name the rat. Whose interests are served by increasing levels of fear in the UK population, in stoking the much vaunted clash between the Muslim and Christian Worlds?
Haven’t you people read your Old Testement at all? Isn’t it credible that you and your people are being set up to fight the Muslims to a standstill, leaving you both exhausted and powerless?
When will Chicken Yoghurt have the courage to leave his prevarication and blather behind, stand up and name the forces at play here. Obviously he knows full well what is going on, and his coyness about revealing the whole truth behind the Mendez affair only serves to increase suspicion around his involvement
I like this David C. chap – can I keep him?
Ian Blair is going to be the sacrificial lamb in this to protect proper analysis of the government’s ‘terrorism’ policy. This is what led to the situation that had armed teams of police out and about across London in the first place. The real policies in place at the time, and who ordered and agreed them will never be known to the general public.
Isn’t that a bit paranoid, Winston? I’m not sure we want to enter ‘conspiracy’ land just yet, do we?
i think the major issue here is who in government gave the go-ahead for the police to have their ’shoot to kill’ policy
As regards who it was in government OK the so called shoot-to-kill policy appears to be from all accounts – nobody. It seems it was dreamed up by the little boys club called ACPO, an unelected, unaccountable, self-appointed group whoes primary aim seems to be trampling on the rights of ordinary people by proposing oppressive legislation to a very compliant government who like to think it means they are doing something. As well as this they excel in securing favourable treatment for themselves and their arrogant, bullying incompetent minions. From reports in the press they presented the shoot-to-kill policy as a fait accompli to the home secretary.
Oh come on, now, ‘anonymous’. Perhaps you’ve been at the ‘wacky baccy’ a bit too much, suggesting such feverish conspiracies.
This is England, you know? It’s not some banana republic!