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Originally Posted by madformac
When it looks like he is to board a train it is felt necessary for the Police to reveal themselves to him... They shout "Halt, armed Police!" and what does he do???? He runs! Runs towards the tube train followed by up to 20 armed officers..
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Again, I heard they were plain clothes and that only five officers were in close pursuit. If you didn't speak English and a bunch of people with guns were chasing after you screaming, what might you do?
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And it seems as usual, the cries of wrong doing come from a country with very little history of terrorism.. Before Oklahoma and 9/11 the United States were somewhat naive, indeed, the majority of funding for the IRA terrorist campaign during the 1970's and 80's especially came from the USA. Ah yes, the Irish Republican Army. It has been the norm for more than 30 years for ordinary people walking the streets of London, Birmingham, Manchester, Belfast etc, to go out not knowing if they were the next to die in a bombing. We have suffered terrorist outrages for many, many years and have gotten to the point where we are unfortunately used to it.
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True. But this is your first go round with "Al CIAda", no?
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I have to ask myself how the average trigger happy US officer would have reacted in such a situation given their history of shooting people dead in far less obvious scenarios..
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Well, we still can't find Bin Laden and what's worse is no one seems to care.
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I will continue to travel in London by tube and bus, as I always do.
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And I will wish for the continued safety of you and everyone else who has to do so.
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As for the terrorists too. There has been a lot of talk of these bombings being linked to Iraq and UK troops being stationed there. If the troops pull out, the bombings stop.. This has been mentioned by Islamic extremists, they also mention that 26,000 Iraqis have died since the US and UK conflict in Iraq started.
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Actually, our government stopped counting the Iraqi casualties long ago. In fact, I'm not sure they ever really counted them in the first place. The numbers that have been floated about exceed 100,000.
Don't be fooled by the propagandist term "insurgent." Certainly they are being funded by someone. But let me ask you this. If your country was attacked ( and it was, some sixty plus years ago) don't you think your countrymen would somehow fight back? They certainly would and did. Back in those days, it was called "the resistance." That's what you're seeing in Iraq now. Can you blame them? We have no valid reason to be there. That's already been established.
edited for clarity