Suspected suicide bomber shot at Stockwell station.

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Have just heard an unconfirmed report on the radio. Anyone else?

Thank you for that sophable. I didn't mean to offend, I am a clumsy writer which makes me hard to understand at times I think.

Yes RP, cheap laughs. That's what this whole situation is about for me, after all. I give up.

I'm off for that cup of tea now.

spot on about 9/11 reaction sophable, could not agree more.
also agree with rest of your post actually..

surely being nervous at the moment is understandable - but we've been through this before with the IRA. People were nervous of irish accents - or even strange males - for a few days and then London went back to being its normal self. There's a difference between temporary "fight or flight" reflex and being racist.

The police believe they have shot the oval bomber, based on cctv footage. The man was wearing what looked like a bomb belt and didn't stop when challenged. Not wise to run from armed police, especially at the moment.

God, this thread is way beyond my usual depth of trivial stuff on MN but didn't the US invade Afganistan after 9/11 then went on to Iraq.

IMO they only went for Iraq as it was an "easier" target, they knew where saddam was.

That's probably the most political post I've ever made on here.

Apparantly the person shot hurdled a barrier and ram when police asked him to stop. He ran onto a train, where he was firmed at and then shot.

that was for sophable btw. I'm not trying to cahnge the subject.

There was a ram in stockwell tube station?

This is unbelievable. Can this be London? Just a couple of miles from my house?

No explosives found on the dead man...

he was from yesterday, i very much doubt they would shoot an innocent person 5 times and kill them. they must have been acting on very strong intelligence reports. they were plain clothes police aswell dont forget

I thought the police thought that the dead man was one of the suspected bombers from yesterday, not someone trying to bomb today?

There have unfortunately been many cases where the police have shot and killed an innocent person.

Excellent post, scummymummy.

i wish the media would report the truth about what else is going on in iraq atm aswell, instead of mainly propoganda bullshit

Blu, I want to apologise if I upset you. This isn't about you, your lovely dp and your frankly bloody wonderful son, its about me and the bombers.

how many though Ruth21? percentage wise?

I'm also anti-war and anti-terror legislation, btw.

Statistics - deaths caused by police shootings since 1993. I haven't found anything with total shootings (non fatal) or if these were innocent people shot though.

I have just logged on and read the posts on this thread.

I feel so sad at some of the comments here. I'm an Asian woman who was born in Britain and considers herself a British Asian. Just last night I was thinking about how life would be for my poor brother now who commutes daily to work for 2 hours each way and has done so for years. Poor man - he is a brown man who carries a bag to work on the train.

He is a lovely man who is going to be looked at with doubt because he happens to be the "wrong" colour for the moment - sigh!

I feel sorry for all young non-white men today.
I don't know what else to say...

That's an impossible question to answer I think, Fio, because those who are shot dead never come to trial. We just assume they must have been guilty if the police kill them. But in this kind of time of panic, it is especially likely to happen. There are lots of cases of young black men killed or injured by police who had done absolutely nothing. And women too in factremember Cherry Groce? She was shot by police in Brixton in 1985 and left paralysedthat was what set off the Brixton 'riots'.

Thanks Hulababy--got there while I was still typing, and with proper stats!

moggymummy