Saturday July 23rd 2005, 8:40 am
 "We
need to await the inquiry to learn the full facts. But if this man
[executed in Stockwell] was unarmed and not carrying a bomb, it will
raise worrying questions—not least that if we behave as badly as the
terrorists don’t we risk losing the moral high ground in the war
against them?" opines the Daily Mail.
It appears he was not only not carrying a bomb or armed but he was
chased by "undercover" cops, that is to say cops dressed in civvies.
"It is not true to say that police officers must identify themselves or
shout a warning when confronting a suspect believed to pose a grave and
imminent threat," notes the BBC,
citing a manual published by the Association of Police Officers. "The
manual says that that procedure ’should be considered’ but recognizes
that the key aim of an operation is to 'identify, locate, contain and
neutralize’ the threat posed."
In other words, execution is
not only permitted, but in this case, for a South Asian man we are told
was followed from a house connected to "suicide bombings," it was the
preferred method for "confronting a suspect believed to pose a grave
and imminent threat," even if the available evidence reveals he wasn’t
a grave and imminent threat. "The appropriateness of the tactics
deployed at Stockwell and the intelligence on which they were based
will now be considered by the Independent Police Complaints
Commission," reports the BBC. "Its inquiry may well redefine the ground
rules for the use of lethal force to protect Britain against the threat
from suicide terrorism." In short, targeted assassination will now
likely become routine in Britain, as it is in Israel. It sends the
preferred message to Muslims. "The tragedy is that when indiscriminate
murder is planned by fanatics in our midst, the security authorities
are increasingly likely to be forced into such life-or-death
decisions," concludes the Daily Mail. Of course, we have no idea who
planned this "indiscriminate murder" and the Brit authorities have no
conclusive evidence it was the work of suicide bombers.
Next
up: targeted assassination of "militants" in "Londonistan" of the
caliber of targeted assassinations in the West Bank and Gaza. Recall
the "Right Honorable" David Blunkett,
Labor Party politician, telling us he "didn’t give a damn" how many
foreign suspects (or for that matter South Asian British citizens) are
detained without due process in Britain (under the Anti-Terrorism,
Crime and Security Act) and insinuating that the "airy-fairy,
libertarian" views of human rights advocates endanger Britain. "The
terrorist attacks in London on 7 July and today provide an opportunity
for us to reflect on our systems and practices to ensure they are
sufficient to counter such unprecedented events," declared Ken Jones,
Chairman of the ACPO Terrorism and Allied Matters Committee, and Chief
Constable of Sussex, after meeting with Tony Blair yesterday. It now
appears, after the incident at Stockwell, the "practices… sufficient to
counter such unprecedented events" will include targeted assassination
of individuals who do not pose a threat to the people of Britain.
However, in the expanding "war on terrorism," in essence a war on Islam
at the behest of a small camarilla of Straussian-Machiavellian neocons,
all Muslims are a threat and will be eliminated accordingly.
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