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UK > 7 July 2005 attacks

Schrank
The Independent
18.8.2005
Leading article: Incompetence, cynicism and
a misguided cover-up
Published: 18 August 2005
When police from Scotland Yard's crack
firearms unit shot dead a suspected terrorist at Stockwell station, the killing
prompted widespread unease.
This sort of thing just did not happen in Britain, where the police are known
and admired the world over for patrolling even mean city streets unarmed.
On that day, though, plenty of people were
prepared to give the Met the benefit of the doubt.
It was the day after the second set of London bombings, and it was feared there
could be more.
The city was on edge; the police were, rightly, on the highest level of alert,
and they were felt to have acquitted themselves creditably after the first
bombings two weeks before.
Article Length: 586 words (approx.)
http://comment.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/article306553.ece
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